After some troubles with getting right pictures from the real stuff, especially the engine compartment (your forum helped a lot to get onward), my Mercedes l3000 truck is finished finally:


more and a construction report so far only in German at my homepage

Viking,

Nice job, I like the way you weather the Mercedes. Keep it up!

looking really good just the right amount of weathering on it is it the italeri kit? are the drums from tamyia/academy

GREAT MODEL AND ECELLENT PAINTWORK VIKING - CONGRATS
ROBERTO

Great job Viking.
Bravo!!!

looks wonderfull!!!

great work,
liked the weathering.

that's a nice build makes me want to finish mine now :-)

Top work!

Great job. I really liked the details. I thought the wheels looked great. The lug nuts and rims were really impressive.

Nice work Viking Excellent weathering :-)

thanks for all your kind replies!

@ micheli125: yes, it´s the Italerie kit. The drums come from different companies, like Tamiya, Italerie, Custom dioramics and some are self-made, especially the front one in the center with the rugged appearence.

greetings from Vienna!

looks good the weathering is right on. You put a lot of effort in this one and it shows. Well done

Most excellent finish...... this has got to be near perfect. Love the dusty look, but still showing detail and tear and wear. Nice one to show all the tamiya purists .... Italeri kits like this ... with a bit of TLC can be beauties.
One thing .... the side door of the body would not sit out like that. The hinge system is the bolt and hole (not the technical term??) where all the bolts were faced the same way so the door could be slid off easily. So the only way the door would hang is if there were chains to hold it like that. It would be more common for it to hang down vertically. If you were to add it into a dio, you could have the door sitting like that on loading platform!

Bjoern

Really excellent work. This looks like something out of Raiders of the Lost Arc. I'm not a big fan of German stuff but this looks GREAT.

I heartly agree with the comment about even a lesser quality kit, like an Italeri, can be made to be first class.

I have said it many times before, It's not the quality of the kit but the quality of the work by the builder...

@ Plasticbattle:




You are absolutely right about the side platform border, which cannot "hang" like this without chains (that were not provided at this very truck). I intend to show this vehicle in a diorama, where the side board is rested on a loading ramp and soldiers have to roll fuel drums on board..

Very nice work
congrats

regards

My website dedicated to military scale models tanks and dioramas
http://www.tankfive.net

Very nice work indeed. I think I will get one for myself in the near future.