Halftracks GB '08 of US, German, Isreal ext. Mar.1'08 - Dec.31'08

   I'll do it can I make this?     it's 1/35 scale.   

stick man wrote:

I'll do it can I make this?     it's 1/35 scale.

here is a shot of my almost finished 1/48, my primed 1/35 and finally my new just assembled for this build 1/48 not sure yet how I will display it, I am thinking of both the 1/48s near Rommel's halftrack with Rommel listening to reports

Well,

 I answered over in the armor forum but I'll also chime in here, in the 'official thread'.

I'd like to try a couple, maybe even three, that I've been planning for awhile!

My scenario is two 251s in DAK that are hypothetical 'what if field shop' conversions. One, I've started but is below the 85% completion rule so I'd like to include it. It's based on the Tamiya 1/35th "Hanomag" with some TLC and a Pak40 onboard. Then I'm leaning towards another as an ammo carrier but it just might wind up with another 'gun' stuffed into it? I also have a 250/9 but I'm in a quandry whether to convert it along the lines of a 253 ammo carrier with ammo trailer, or a more 'traditional' observation variant?

But somehow I'd like them to represent a hypothetical 'special task force' that roamed the desert and took on tanks in hit and run fashion! I'd also like to present them within a diorama but don't want to get ahead of my actual skills!

SO- is there room in this GB for 'hypothetical what if' scenarios- or are we sticking to prototype, documented, fidelity?

Thanks,

Don 

White_R34 wrote:

Say when did you do the builds of those?

the "big" one and one small one were started a month or so ago. the unpainted one I just started, after the start of this GB so technically the one 1/48 is the only one that "counts" for this build.

The 2 little ones will go in a diorama with the 1/48 GRIEF halftrack that I have ordered for the GB {the GRIEF was my plan in the beginning, but when I remembered I still had one unbuilt I dragged it out. 

I assemble fast it's the painting and weathering that slows me down

White_R34 wrote:

Guy,s and Girl's please put up a list of what you plan to work on with box art if you can.

for me, I plan on doing a diorama with the Grief and Rommel standing and my two mini tracks ready to race off at his command

IF I could do canopies I would add a Storch but.....way too much masking for my ability

I have several halftracks in my arsenal. Right now I am leaning towards my Zvesda SdKfz 251/1 Ausf B/ I have AFV club workable track and AFV wheels. Those are the major problems that I am aware of with the Zvesda kit.

Mark

found something take a looky: It looks like a drawing thou, It's a full open top.

IGEL: was a Sd.Kfz 253 with closed top and hatches

GREIF: Full open top.

See it some thing a lettle defferent.

White_R34 wrote:

Fisrt about the 1/48 Greif I cant wate to see how your going to do it as I have that same version in 1/35 but I want to do it as the Ader version. Hay I looked up info on E.Rommel's halftrack and found that he had three "GREIF"-(Griffin or Condor or Attack), "ADLER"-(Aigle or Eagle),"IGEL"-(Hedgehog) as it said the the last one was a Gray color and the other two where of the sand camo color. I don't know if this is still right I looked it up over 4 years ago. Any way I hope to build all three starting with ADLER. I know some of you may want to know why? You see Greif done a lot I just though doing this version woulf be a good switch. I'm going to look it again to see what will come up now.

EDIT: ooh, I think I just had  epiphany...or a brain fart, not sure which BUT I think I may make a small oasis with a few date palms and some h2o

Sorry for all the type-O's brane and hand where not on the same page.

you can put me down for a 1/35th  sd.kfz.251/22 from dragon

thanks.

jason

Some more progress.

All the new names have bean added to the list of builders I will up date the list in the Armor section as well. Oh an the list is at the top under all my pix. Here's a link back to the othere thread in the Armor section. Starting on page 1:

/forums/1/911753/ShowPost.aspx#911753

ok, here are some follow up pics of my WIP

I boogered the white "GRIEF" decal and a member of another forum was kind enough to send me his, since he was building 2 and the second was not Rommel's command track.

 It is still shinny, missing tools, lights, fender markers and weathering also the machine gun shield is scratch because it is somewhere over the rainbow

it will be in an oasis setting, I am preparing for the water..... 

got a little built on my 251/21 drilling. not much but heres what i have. next time you see the interior it should be all painted with the dash and everything ready to go.

Cheers

Cliff

Cruzr, your /21 looks almost exactly like my /17 does at the moment... pitifully unbuilt!

Seriously though, I'm at the same stage of build as you and the parts are pretty similar, but I notice that the gearshift has a slightly different shape to the 'boot'.  What's the PE strip above the suspension?

The /17 is a D as well...but it's a moot point now as I've added some PE detail to the driver's area and one of those details is a shift gate box around the shift boot, so it is unseeable now.

And yeah, my knowledge of the 251 family is limited to .. they're German halftracks from WWII that got used in a wide variety of roles.

Dre wrote:

they're German halftracks from WWII that got used in a wide variety of roles.

what he said

Cruzr wrote:

Dre wrote: they're German halftracks from WWII that got used in a wide variety of roles. what he said

OK you can put me down  for this one, I can either do an AFV Club SdKfz11 or a Tamiya SdKfz7, to be determined at a later date.

Thanks,

~J