Thanks friend!. Here are the first pics





Regards,
Rodolfo

@ Bruce I know all about broken ribs, it pains me to hear that yours are so. I just hope you are able to sleep at night I never got any for 3 weeks. I hope for a speedy recovery.

@ Scott: Fantastic figures if you could put together a thread on how to, it would help me to brave up and try a figure.

ROBERT

Srry guys I have been away for four days at my grandmas house doing some work for her but I am back now


MATT

Looks good, Rodolfo. There are some really nice details there. I assume you are going to leave the hatches open to show of the interior details?

Looking forward to see more

Hello all

I see, that I wasn't here by moment, but it has appeared already so many great kits
Great work guys!

Adam

Progress is slow, but steady..... for now..

I did some more work on the French. The statue has been painted and its base is complete.
The pillar and block have been "borrowed" from my youngest daughter and are wooden blocks. I cast a circular base with plaster and cut that to shape to match the base, so the statue wouldn't we as tall as I first planned it. Then I scribbed in the details. I then painted the whole thing with several coats and washes in different shades of grey and white.
The statue was basecoated with Andrea's bronze... or what was left of it, after I hadn't touched that bottle for nearly a year.. . Then several washes of green were applied.
It now looks like this:


The base was made by casting another lot of plaster into a pictureframe and then scribbing in the cobblestonedetails. It was painted with several shades of grey and some brown washes, deliberately achieving a different look the the statuebase.
The roadblock has been added to the base too and it too got several coats of paint and washes. The loose cobblestones were made by cutting up the excess left of the statuebase into blocks. These came of in irregular shaped blocks, which I then rolled between my fingers, to round off the edges.
When the gun and figures are added the whole then will be blend together with washes and powders and and and....
The roadblock looks like this now.


The gun isn't completely done yet...

It's me again!

Due to some comments I got about the sandbags I used, I added a little something.
I used one of those wet toiletpapersheets (unused!) and made them into a blancket and a tarpaulin. This way the not so wondefull sandbags got out of sight.
Here are the results of an it-is-far-to-hot-to-do-anything-afternoon:

Lots of progress, Ron, this is looking real good. Tarp & blanket look fantastic.

Ron - great work so far, I really like what you are doing with this diorama!
It's far to hot to do anything now... finishing of my dio must wait then...

Andrzej

Looks great, Ron. The diorama improved significantly with the tarps. It is a very nice layout that will work well with the stature to add additional levels and "depth" to the diorama.

Looking forward to see more

Get well soon Bruce !!

Some shots of the Alan Panzer II (in progress)

My new Tamiya Panzer II Ausf A/B/C kit that I'm going to build for this campaign finally came in the mail today



Tamiya included markings for 4 different vehicles with this kit, 2 from 6th panzer division, and 2 from 4th panzer division all from France 1940, not sure which I'll do yet... But now that I've opened the box up and looked the kit parts over closely, I'm even more psyched to get started then before. Everyones builds are looking really great BTW -- this has been a great thread to follow. I'll post updates with my progress.

Thanks for the comments guys!

2 PzKfw 2's at the same time, what a treat! I love those little panzers.
The Alan one I know, but how about Tamiya's version? It says A/B/C; does it include the different running gears for those versions too??

John, the little Alan Pz. II looks good. I have build this kit earlier and it is better than its reputation. Those early war markings really add some contrast to the overall grey camouflage. Looking forward to see more.

Phil, I am also very interested in hearing more about your new Tamiya Pz. II. Could we get a picture of the decal sheet? I would like to build a Pz. II from the invasion of Denmark in 1940 and think this kit might be the best one/only one for that.

Thanks for your kind comments friend!. Yes, only 1 hatch will be open for show of the interior.

Here more pics of my work!.

Rear view of positioning of PE of the bases of the lateral light and Light Nocturnal Conduction Notek



Rear view of positioning of PE of the bases of the lateral light and Horn.



I added damage of combat in the mudguards



PE in the lateral lights, horn, Notek light, frontal light, mudguards and strap under the metal gun barrel.



View of positioning of PE in the cleaner rods, extinguisher, hooks, clasps and light distance of Notek



Front view of positioning of PE in the cleaner rods, extinguisher, hooks, clasps, Notek light , mudguards and chains.



Regards,
Rodolfo

Going great, Rodolfo. Very clean build, too!

As for my own fiddeling, I sat aside the Frenchies and worked on the German counterpart.
I want to show a PzKfw 35(t) in a French field of grain.
This is easier said than done! I used sisalrope for the grain, died and painted the strands, cut them to length and added 1 bundle at a time. It is quite messy and timeconsuming, but hey, it is vacationtime! Hope it'll just work out the way I plan to!
So here's what it looks like now:
My inspiration for the field:


The front:


The right side:


and the back, to which I added some extra detail, because it was quite boring:

Looks good, Ron. It is a very ambitious and timeconsuming project you have. Good that you have a holiday I am looking forward to see how the field turns out. It is a very difficult thing to pull of.

Thanks for sharing

Hey Ron the new Tamiya Panzer II kit includes instructions to make the different versions but it looks like the the same running gear is used for all versions. Your question got me thinking so I checked my references and they show that the Panzer II Ausf A/B/C all have the same running gear. Here is a quote from the George Bradford book World War II AFV Plans - German Early War

"The (Panzer II) Ausf c, A, B, & C were almost identical except for certain changes to the visors, mantlet and bows."

Looking in the same book it was apparently the earlier Panzer II Ausf "b" that had the different suspension/running gear configuration (with the Panzer I style outer brace bar). I didn't know until tonight, that the Ausf "b" was an earlier and different version from the Ausf "B".

The changes in the new Tamiya Panzer II kit between the various versions involve step #9 in the kit instructions, which if you want to build the Panzer II Ausf A or B shows using the PE part for the outer muffler cover which has the two vertical rectangle shaped holes and then mounting the smoke discharger part on top of the muffler aligning it with the two holes in the PE cover. If you are going to build the Ausf C it shows using the other PE outer muffler cover without the rectangular holes (and no smoke discharger). The kit also includes different style visors depending on what version of the Panzer II you are building.

Jesper: Sure no problem, here is pic showing the decals and PE parts included with the new Tamiya Panzer II Ausf A/B/C kit. Oh BTW this is the same PE part for the muffler I was talking about in my post just above (one of the parts critical to building the different Ausfuhrung with this kit).



And here are some other images of the kit parts:

hello all,
everything is looking good.i see we have some great kits and dio's for the campaign.
@Ron,your dio is looking great.and i did not see anything wrong with the "sandbag's"myself.i would suggest you do your dio the way you want.

@Phil,that is a great looking kit.where are you going to put it,ie:Poland,France?
thanks for all of your hard work for this campaign.
cheers,
Bruce

Hi,

I think I've finished my diorama... So - here we go:





I hope you like it!

Matt, Bruce, thanks for a very good campaign! I will be proud to wear Blitzkrieg Ribbon .
I will follow other builts on this thread.

BTW: I'd like to invite everybody here to a diorama campaign that will start November 1st this year: it's Airborne campaing. Feel free to join!

Andrzej

Hi Andrzej,
finished allready, 'ey??
Looks very good indeed. A little suggestion though, dirty up your troops. They look very clean. Even 1 day in the field would get you dirty and dusty.
Other than that, a clean build.


Here's some progress on my field of grain (pain is more like it... )
The field has been build up by glueing the grain in place, 1 bundle at a time.
I also chose a much to green colour for it and now I am facing difficulties trying to tone the green down to the more greyish blue-green I had in mind.
I also made some changes to the 35(t). I repainted it overall grey, because I didn't like the 2-tone I had done.
I also added some decals, only to find out that the numbers I used were not used this way untill Barbarossa, so I have to add the rumboid little numberplates after all.
See for your self:








so......

Hi Bruce,

Yep my Tamiya panzer II will be built as a vehicle in France in 1940. I'm working on it now and will post some progress pics later.

hello Phil,
sounds good to me.can't wait to see your WIP'sphoto's.
cheers.
Bruce

Excellent diorama, Andrzej. The figures look great and the diorama is well balanced.

Ron, the field looks very nice. Quite a big job you are doing.
The only comments are about the corn behind the tank.
I think the corn under the belly of the tank would be less flat as the tank would not break all the corn but heavily bend them instread. So the corn would be bend but not broken.
Also there would still be corn in the tank track impressions in the ground. Here the corn would be broken and really flat

Looking forward to see more