Okay here's mine, the first of many Famo's I have to build. I'm doing this one with no aftermarket stuff just to see how it comes out. I'm going to put tarps or tilts whatever you want to call them, on the cab and bed.

Some more great work supporting this fantastic campaign! Thanks to all for sharing your projects, truly amazing work! Track on!

Cheers -

Tim

Some nice work going on,

Here’s my update for the weekend: (Minus the Superbowl)


My problem is that I have to do the entire inside to almost finished before I do the exterior. I always end up breaking off items because I handle the model so much, it’s just safer for me. Which means I have to leave it sit and dry at numerous times so I work on another model while I’m waiting for the other

Thanks again and I'll add some more later,
Bob

Here is my entry for the campaign. It’s a Danish M5 from JDR in the mid fifties. It serves as a mortar carrier with a Danish made 80mm.
The kit is Tamiya’s M3 converted to a M5 with a scratch build mortar and soft cap made of Magic Sculp.

Very nice Kenneth. "Q"

I don't have a picture to post but I actually had a chance today to work on the Tamiya Hanomag Sdkfz 251/1 that I am building for this campaign. I was able to get a lot of the detail painting completed and hope to have most, if not all, of the project finished in the next couple of weeks.

Just thought I would give an update.

HARV

Nice work Kenneth, looks good. Like your tarp!

Great progress Bob, coming along quite well.

Cheers -
Tim

Just a quick update, about 80% construction completed;



Have all the major pieces together, just need to finish some PE on the front, and finally glued on the 40 bolt heads on the shield, much fun there. And need to attach the shield to the 75mm and of course I'm always forgeting something.

Thanks for looking,
Bob

This campaign is really rockin'!! Fantastic builds!

@ Thomas; I'm using Tamiya's 251/1 Ausf D with an Azimut-conversionset.
@ Bob; Your M3 is looking great! I got this one from a friend and it's been build for some 60%. Your build will guide me through the remaining 40!
@ Andrzej; Your's is really tiny! ........ I mean the halftrack!! You know I'm using that one too, for the airbornecampaign, so I'll be watching you tackle those tiny tracks and suspensionarms!
@ Ed; Superb looking job. I love the tarppoles!
@ kenneth; That's a version we hardly see. Looks very good. Can we get some more detail- and/or interiorpictures too??

Here's my work so far.
I basically painted the interior and gave it some basic weathering and washes. I also started to add mud, as the vehicle will be set in a muddy field.
When joining the bottom and top, I got a nasty surprise! On the right side there appeared a huge gap! I guess the bulkhead doesn't fit good. Maybe due to the conversionset I used??
Anyway I had to fill that up first before I can paint the outside.



I also started experimenting with the mud. I used plaster, to which I added the paint allready. When applied wet, it really looked the part, but when it dried it looked like this:


So I'll have to paint it anyway.... damn.

Hi Ron, thanks for the comment! I need to get some new pics posted. Your mud looks fine, I do the same thing except when it's dry I seal it with matt coat. After that drys, I do some darker colored washes and gloss coat for wet mud, or dark wash with lighter drybrush for dry mud. This brings out the nice details of the mud texture. It looks good, don't give up!

well guys,
I did it!! I took my airbrush and gave my 251/2 it's first coats of paint!
It wasn't easy and it went wrong too ( way to much paint in the first run), but I got the effect I was looking for.
I wanted it to look as if someone in a fieldworkshop had been playing around with e spraypistol and this is what it looks now:




The 250/6 in the background was used to get "warmed up" and get the hang of it a bit.
As far as the mud goes, it will be much darker, much thicker and much wetter, so wish me luck on that!!

Here's the next installment of the Famo. Camo applied, tarp and tilt painting started, rifles in holders. Let me know what you think.

Funny you should ask for more pictures.Having touched up paint on the hood,I will be on Blogtv tonight,and doing some final assembly.
I found epoxy is about the best adhesive to use on the Trumpeter tracks for that large Halftrack.
I havee shortened one,and the epoxy is holding,so I will do the other too.

Even more great work, keep going guys!

Ed, the tarps on your Famo look splendid. I especially liked the tarp on the back. Nice paint job as well, which colors did you use (what brand I mean)?

Ron, interesting camouflage. Yours is coming along nicely as well.

Matthew, nice collection and variations of US halftracks. I think those old Tamiya kits must be feeling really well that someone is paying so much attention to them. I dumped mine a long time ago

Andrzej, hope you don't run into a lot of problems and complete the kettenkrad.

Good work people, many nice builds. There's about two weeks and a weekend left to complete your models. Yet, since I have some time difficulties and haven't still assembled the tracks of my Sdkfz 251, an extension can be an option. We'll see how things turn out on the last week of February.

Hi All.

Finished (fir the moment) my Tamiya M21. It is a 1970's boxing so it is in their traditional, for US stuff, dark green (its pure green!!) of the time. This is the pre-deployment version in a series. I accidently bought two of these kits and the next one will be finished after it had been out in the field for a few months after D-Day. Just a little dirtier.. :-)

Where's the mortar? Congrats on finishing. "Q"

Nice Half-track Warren! I like the clean crisp look of this one. Ahh..., the pure green, old school Tamiya models...

Here is an in-progress photo of the Tamiya Hanomag Sdkfz 251/1 that I am building for this campaign.



I still have a lot of work to do on it. I need to get the tracks to sag, I have to finish up the detail painting and I have a couple of annoying gaps to deal with. Hopefully I will get all of that taken care of and get the decals and a lot of dusting done to it soon. I was thinking that I would need to ask for an extension but I think I will be done in time.

Thanks,

HARV

@ Ed; great looking camo, Ed! I love the tilt too.
@ Warren; I thought there was something missing too. Will you be adding the mortar later?
@ Randy; your 251 is coming along fine, but it does need some more work indeed.
@ Emre: I do think that an extension might be in order here, given the large amount of still in progress builds. Mine will be close, too.



I've been at it again, too.
I started work on the base and I had a muddy field of gras in mind. Somewhere along the route I got lost and ended up with a piece of countryroad with some trees, shrubs and a barbedwirefence. Also the season changed from early winter to late autumn.
I also added some more figures to the scene, too.
I really should learn to focus and stick to the plan!

The leaves are all natural materials collected, dried and crumbled to suitable size.
The barded wire is made from netting in which garlic is sold. I paitend it, cut of some strands en stretched these up.
Here's what it looks like from the birdsnest point of view:


The front of the setting:


The righthandside;


And the back with the fence;


And finally a closeup of the barbed wire itself;

hi everybody,

although I have had little change to reply, I have been keeping an eye in, and my, it is shaping up to be a very successful campaign with beautiful entries. Good work everyone.

I finally managed to get some work done on the base. I like winter scenes, and this one is nearly finished. I need to tidy the snow, and add a watery ditch, with ice, in the front. The figure needs a few more touches to finish the shadows. I was thinking of adding the second figure of the set (in the great coat, but I think the single figures pose, with the broken down 250/1 in such a desolate place, works better.



More pics when it's finished.

Ron, that is going to be a neat and small diorama, I like your groundwork. Do not add more figures, you are already out of space

Henk, I think you halftrack with the unhappy looking cold soldier looks wonderful. I think this figure on its own would work better than two figures, he seems to be thinking "Damn! Will I freeze to death over here?".

How much of an extension will people need? I am currently rushing to complete my SPIF build before that campaign ends, so by the end of this month my halftrack will still be incomplete. It is completely painted, but the tracks are still on the sprues and the interior needs lots of work. School starts tomorrow and the last term of MBA will definitely pin me down, so 4 weeks extension? More?

Man there are some nice looking halftracks being built.

I have to say finally finished on mine. Would love to change some items.
This will be the last conversion I do for this. I am going to pickup that new Dragon on and see if it's any better then this.







I'll find the gallery and upload into there also,
(Found the gallery "http://gallery.kitmaker.net/showgallery.php/cat/22775" but cannot upload photos into it)

Bob



Thought I'd better add my reference.

Emre do you mind a late entry? I just picked up the old Airfix 1/76 skfdz7 and 88mm gun set. Thought I'd do the gun for the 88 campaign and the tractor for this one. Would that be accepted?
JP

Hello JP,

If you think you can complete your model in time (12 days + extension), you are welcome to join! For a braille-scale that should be more than enough time, provided you have time for modeling of course

Bob, that's a very nice conversion. Very good job on the old Tamiya, but your right track seems like it has rebelled.

I am still waiting for ideas on the amount of extension. Keep working on them halftracks!

Ok great, I made a start last night. There are some corrections to details to be made.
And a little work to have the canvas top down. Grey or Dunkelgelb?
The kit goes together well and the mold was copyright 1967!
No wife or kids for a week so plenty of bench time.