Here's some pictures of my finihsed Tamiya Kubelwagen in 1/16th scale..... an out of the box build. Actually, as the story goes, this kit was started by another chap. He assembled a few parts on the under chassis and then never finished the kit. I had to disassemble some of his work to "repair" it and then continued on to finish the build. This is the first time I've asembled a 1/16th scale piece.

Sorry able the crap iphone pictures and the crappy surroundings !! Comments/questrions are welcome. Some more pictures to come of hopefully much better quality. I'll also chat about the kit and give some thoughts.............

Very nice build, like the paint scheme and the helmets in the back

Very nice Tom. Looks like it just rolled out of the Libyan desert. I really like the worn look of the vehicle...it's not overdone. Very nice.

Jeff

i like it a lot i almost got this one time when it was on sale wish i had now the painting and weathering looks great i look forward to some nicer pics and info on the kit.

I promise to try and take a bunch of better shots in the next day or two. Just been swamped time wise. Haven't even gotten around to making any progress on the campaign work lately either.

As promised gents............. I've just taken a bunch of random shots. First time I've ever done it on a background. I'm no expert with the camera at all. Total rookie, so sorry for some of the so-so shots !!

Comments as usual are welcome.





In this shot, that back seat looks to have some left to right streakage. It doesn't show up until photographed, but it does tell the tail that I was messing around with a brush on it during the weathering process. Oops!!




The tires on this kit have a nasty seem. I worked on it for a while but eventually gave up as the casting of the thing was misaligned slightly as can be clearly noted by the groove in the tire that's suppose to be there.

Remember ......... it's 1/16th scale!! My eye/hand coordination isn't that good for this to be 1/35......... which is the scale I usually work in.

Last bunch......








One thing I'd like to mention. This is my first time at this scale. It's a LOT more paint and a LOT more time to cover the areas in the weathering department, without over doing it in relation to the scale. You can cover the big areas with damage and weathering quickly but it ends up looking way off. The level of tiny detail is just as high on these larger scale models in order to get the look right.............. for me anyways. It was challenging and a learning experience for sure.

thanks for looking..............

No comments ................... say it ain't so. I luv comments. There's gotta be something here I monkey-d up ?!!??!??

Ok, how about this. Something actually is wrong. There's a piece of the model that fell off and got swallowed up by the floor monster. It's small-ish. Can you spot it ? Clue is this............. it's on the back half of the model.

That's pretty good work, Tom.

The only critcism I have is that the figure's clothes have a bit of a sheen to them, which might be the case if they're dirty in tropics or a temperate zone but not in the desert. A bit more pastel work might be necessary. Otherwise, looks fine.

Yup....... similar with the rear canopy actually. Although the pictures make it look worse then it is in real life as a lot of the high points on both the figure and the rear canopy were substantially high lighted. So that whit-ish area is not *sheen* in most cases but high lighting.

Thanks for the comment.

that's a cool model to have on display at the house Tom, really nice subtle detailing and figure painting.

a small suggestion might be to sand the bottom of the tires so it sits on the base a bit more realistically (i'd just rub it against a sheet of 150 grit sandpaper at this finished stage). in 1/35 scale i usually pass on sculpting a bulge in the tire wall at the bottom as when i have done this in the past it was not that noticeable yet was time consuming to do correctly, i don't know if it would worth to do in 1/16th?

thanks for sharing this great piece, cheers bd.

Nice work - The weathering is really well done.

thanks for the comments guys.

The tires on this kit are rubber and hollow inside!! I had thought about this as well. Two thoughts. Heating up the rubber to flatten the bottom but any mistake would destroy the tires. Or secondly, a big bolt through the middle of the model into the base to "pull" the model down and bulge out those tires.

I did neither.........yet!!! I may just leave it as-is

hollow rubber tires, that does make for a novel situation. i see how a bolt would be the best solution but then you'd probably see the bolt even if you paint it black which isn't what you'd want. thanks for the info on what the tires are made of, didn't know that they are provided in this material.

like i said earlier, sweet looking vehicle to have in the display collection. cheers, bd.

I would leave the tires as is and just tell every one that they are over inflated!

I'm leaning to leaving as is as well.

On another note, I'm looking forward to one day assembling the 1/35 scale version as this larger scale becomes a nice reference

A thought may be to add sand to your base and let the model "sink" into it just a bit before you let the mixture set up. Again, just a thought. That aside the painting and weathering look great