Tamiya SDKFZ 25,1 completely abandoned..FINISHED!. pics.page5.

COOL!! I have this kit in my stash. Be keeping an eye on this build.

Nice to see this old kit still being built, will be following this.

What should be the interior color?, same as ooutside?, german grey?, in some pictures it looks white and others kind of greenish?...some help here guys...

Early 251's were painted the standard German interior white in the drivers compartment while the rest was the same as the exterior. I am not sure at what point the drivers compartment was painted the same as the rest.

Not sure how far you have got on the outside, but if you haven't fitted that drum on the mount in stage 1, leave it out.

Thank you Bish!, you mean the water tank in the drivers compartment?, I did had some fitting problems with it.

Yes, that's the one. It shouldn't be there, unless you plan on doing an Ambulance version. I don't know why Tamiya out it in that kit.

Gone!!, thank you!

Off to a good start Garzon! As for the water tank thing, that's down to the fact that the version Tamiya used as the foundation model at the time was an ambulance variant with the cask present...so they included it in theirs as well.

If you can, get some AM tracks for it. It's a decent kit, but those tracks are crappy and too taught.

Bish

Early 251's were painted the standard German interior white in the drivers compartment.......

This was only on the Ausf. A chassis, otherwise it should be dunkelgrau (dark grey) or dunkelgelb (dark yellow) depending on the time period you depict.

Thanks Greg, I wasn't sure which Models it applied to.

I've actually had my eye on this kit for a while and can easily buy it at any time with a HL 40% off coupon but have held off. I'll be watching this build here!

Remember, I'f you're building a DAK 251, interior still is panzer gray, but exterior is RAL 8000 2/3 of the vehicle, the other 1/3 was RAL 7008 for March 1941 - April 1942 vehicles... Oh wait, there was another scheme: RAL 8020 2/3, RAL 7027 1/3... But that's for April 1942 – February 1943 vehicles. Of course that "2/3 of one color, 1/3 of the other" thing wasn't always applied, so check your references... Again, if you want to build a DAK 251. Best regards.

José.

An observation that DAK colors differed as the Germans also used whatever they had at hand such as captured British paints. They also used Italian paints to supplement their limited paint stock. After some weathering and fading, shades were different from factory applied ones.

I'm doing this one now as well and am told the interior was the same color (MM Dunkelgelb 1943) as the exterior however…..I chose to paint the forward interior, i.e., driver's area with MM Panzer Buff just to liven stuff up. Not the best pic but once I add some dirt and grime I think it'll help blend it in so it's not too stark a contrast. Best of luck with your build!

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HL 40% off coupon is why i have 4 of them. as for the interior color if it went to africa gray and was quickly painted yellow it's possible the interior was left gray due to time and availibility of paint. i know that was the case with some of the armored cars.

waynec

HL 40% off coupon is why i have 4 of them.

Those coupons are great but HL's plastic kit stock seems to be getting smaller. They used to carry the Type VII and Gato subs in 1/72 along with some great Tamiya kits but as of late, their stock is bare bones, mostly 1/25 cars at least at the one I go to.

Good luck! That's a great vehicle to start out with.

Nice one Garzonh!  Looking forward to seeing progress pics of this venerable kit!  I don't have this kit so it will be interesting to see how easily/quickly this goes together and how you deal with some of the kit's problems (as stated by others).

Vehicles from 1943-end of war used dunkelgelb as base color so dunkelgelb interior is correct for your vehicle, prior to this date, it should be panzer gray. It looks nice. Keep us posted. Best regards.

José.

Your new project is looking real good,is this the one with the soldier jumping over the side into action

I just bought this kit  and already built it. It's a fun kit to build, and I love the positions the soldiers are in.

Hi, yes, is the one with the soldier jumping into action, however I will not use the kit soldiers...Im doing a LOT of experimentation with the model...and I mean a LOT, it will be used in a diorama down the road.

Hopefully I can get some pictures tomorrow on the first layer of colors...Im sure it will be a surprise and something different. Since it was a cheap model, $15 USD, Im not too concern if everything goes to hell...I would user another kit for the diorama.

Thanks to all for your interest and advice!

Good night

Good morning all and happy weekend...

OKay, so some update.

I experimented with the vehicle and so far it's turning out as I wanted. It will be a SDFKZ knocked out and engine hood and around burnt out.

My goal is to display it, as it received a shot on the right side, the engine fire would had burnt out the paint and melted the tire, other parts were bended or fell of due to the shell impact, it also has the entrance hole.  The impact came from a small caliber gun, otherwise it would have been completely destroyed.

Also added some scratches and other impact marks, the other tire I flattened it a little bit, I hate to see perfectly rounded, fully inflated tires in armor, planes, cars, come onnn...not even my car has perfect tires nevertheless in batlle.

On to the painting.....

Next, update...

Primed all the model in black to "kill" all the brightness and have a good foundation for the grey, red and layers of weathering, rusting and burnt out.

this is all for today.

See ya.

Hmmmm...waiting with nervous anticipation ....

Happy last day of 2013..wow, what a year and how fast it went. 

Time for some update...

Tons of work done today.

1. Added a second lighter layer of gray color, I tried to keep some darker color on the seems and lower areas, but did not came out as I expected... For some reason the color even looks clearer on the pics.
2. Now that I have my oil colors, I started to experiment with them and trying to make my firts filters in the inside, also, did not had the results I wanted   I mainly experimented on the benches and one side of the interior. Not sure it can be seen on the pics, since it's a simple camera I have not manual control on focus. 

I will call it for today, it was dissapointing... 

See you around!!

I am liking where you are going with this.