I finally got started on my entry. As a reminder I am building the Tamiya M8 Armored Car. I plan on showing it being used by the Germans.

So far I have assembled the under carriage and the wheels and have started the interior and exterior. I have the initial coat of flat white applied to the interior and just need to add and paint the few remaining pieces and the interior will be complete. Then I can start on the rest of the exterior.

I still need to decide if I want to use the side skirts or not. I have seen photos of them with, and without, being used by the Germans. I guess I will decide as I go.



I should have some more in-progress photos to post soon.

HARV

Some very nice work has been done here so far. I especially like that Universal carrier in German service.

That's an MG-34 in the hull, right? That compartment's quite cramped, I wonder how the gunner managed to operate that thing. With the original bren gun, there wasn't too much room either.

OK everyone, this campaign is now official with a start date of June 1st ending December 31st.
So lets go with those vehicles that are under new management.

Please feel free to announce your participation here with some details of what your going to be building and a few pics if possible but feel free to start your own WIP thread too to show it in more detail.

The gallery is open and ready to accept your pics.

I myself intend to do a couple of builds, the first will be a Kettenkrad in US Military Police markings, and the second, well, we'll have to see, I have one or two idea bubbling....

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OK everyone, this campaign is now official with a start date of June 1st ending December 31st.
So lets go with those vehicles that are under new management.

Please feel free to announce your participation here with some details of what your going to be building and a few pics if possible but feel free to start your own WIP thread too to show it in more detail.

The gallery is open and ready to accept your pics.

I myself intend to do a couple of builds, the first will be a Kettenkrad in US Military Police markings, and the second, well, we'll have to see, I have one or two idea bubbling....

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hey Mark,
i have a few questions.1)is this campain open to all levels of modelers,i have built a few models in my returnto it.2)i have not figured out how to post picts here yet,so i might need help to post.3)would a tamiya m-3 grant captured my the germans count?if so it will be a oob as my skill in scgeath building is very little.this campain looks fun and something i was going to do the m-3 caputered in my mind.
cheers
Bruce

yo Mark,
thxs for the reply.i think i am going to call it "Whoose Tank".if all goes well it will have a twist to it.can not say anymore,do not want to give it away.wush me luck and if i have any questions i wi send out a sos.
cheers
Bruce

Here is my second update photo. I have most of the basic construction completed and a base coat of olive drab on everything. I just need to complete the interior detail painting and I can start finishing up the construction.



I hope to have another photo to post soon.

HARV

Ok guys, heres my update; I poured my water, followed the directions, and it came out looking like cr#p. i improvised, added some green paint thined out with a whole bunch of water, and cane up with a decent looking mossy/algae effect, but the water was still milky. Tried a few more approaches, got tired of it, and went for an ice effect instead. heres what I've got:


My figures were all wrong (aside from the two in the pic), but I've ordered new ones, which came in today. havent even opened the packages yet!

Anywho, whaddya think??

Finally, here are my pictures (I finally got my camera back, and photobucket went back online).

Couple of WIP Shots... As you can see, I filled the gaps in the previous pictures and it came out OK:




Then I painted it, since my camera was away, no pictures taken during that... The kit provides 2 types of tracks: 1 set on Link&Length and one set of Vinyl. Both looked OK, but since I don't like vinyl tracks, I used the L&L ones. They look cool with their track sag.



Here's a comparison of largeness, the KV-2 (mighty also in real life) versus the German Marder1A3 in 1/35:


Just joking, it is the 1/72 scale Revell Marder kit. That is also very very nice.

More photos:




After these photos were taken, I carefully resprayed my oversprayed areas (couple of them very visible) and ensured a smooth and soft finish. Then I gave the KV a coat of clear varnish (Tamiya X-22), now it is drying out.

Colors used are Gunze Sangyo's Panzer Colors Set 2, I really like to use this set. However, the Dark Yellow finished rapidly, that's a problem... I guess they should include two bottles of Dark Yellow for one bottle of Green and one bottle of Red Brown

but as Jesper has said changing to ice will mean you need to make some changes to the grass and trees etc.