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Operation Fall Gelb 1940 Campaign
tinbanger
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Posted: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 03:10 PM UTC
Hi!
This is my entry for the campaign:-


Blackstoat
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Posted: Thursday, February 20, 2014 - 08:25 AM UTC
I've had this one finished for a while, but only just got round to posting the pics.













Weathering and decals didn't go to plan, but the Tamiya kit was a joy... and I'm reasonably pleased with the puzzle camo.

Snorri23
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Posted: Thursday, February 20, 2014 - 09:29 AM UTC
An excellent paint job for the Soma(?) Hopefully mine will come out looking as good.
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Posted: Thursday, February 20, 2014 - 09:54 AM UTC
Looks great, I really like this puzzle camo, very good weathering.

Paweł
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Posted: Thursday, February 20, 2014 - 11:46 AM UTC

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An excellent paint job for the Soma(?) Hopefully mine will come out looking as good.


It´s a Char B... but apart from that you´re totally right...

This thing is still on my whislist, althoug I´ve recently got me an additional Somua and a H39... while I´m making slow progress on the R35:





I found a marker which won´t "run" away when I´m spraying the clear coat... and added the fastener for the foldable mirror (Yes, it has a mirror )
Colors in the pics are slightly to dark, I´m trying it again next week or so...
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Posted: Thursday, February 20, 2014 - 12:45 PM UTC
Love the Char B Andy!
Blackstoat
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Posted: Friday, February 21, 2014 - 04:05 AM UTC
Thanks guys - very kind

I can't recommend the Tamiya kit highly enough, a real joy to construct. In fact I've bought another one, this time a B2 with a resin flammenwerfer conversion - can't wait to start it!
nng-nng
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Posted: Friday, February 21, 2014 - 04:33 AM UTC
Well, good to hear that it´s worth the money... but it´s areound 70 quid here, therefore I could get:
4,5 Trumpeter KV-2s, or almost Broncos complete H38/H39 range, or even a recent Dragon kit + the Bronco kit missing in my second calculation.............

So as you see, I´ve successfully prevented me from buying one
Blackstoat
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Posted: Friday, February 21, 2014 - 06:40 AM UTC

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Well, good to hear that it´s worth the money... but it´s areound 70 quid here, therefore I could get:
4,5 Trumpeter KV-2s, or almost Broncos complete H38/H39 range, or even a recent Dragon kit + the Bronco kit missing in my second calculation.............

So as you see, I´ve successfully prevented me from buying one


I ordered mine from Japan, it was about £30 + shipping
easyco69
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Posted: Sunday, February 23, 2014 - 06:45 AM UTC
Update :
Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf.E
Painted the brown camo. Next is fix that dam gap lol,washes & filters.After that is to work on the tracks, pigments etc...
Bigrip74
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Posted: Sunday, February 23, 2014 - 07:19 AM UTC
@Andy: WOW! nice looking Char bis I need to watch you during your paint process to pick up some of your techniques.

@Fabien: I like the way your H39 is progressing. I just enlisted in this campaign, now to purchase another kit not an H39 maybe something British or German. Started to look up what was available online but what British armor was at the battles.



Bob
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Posted: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 03:08 PM UTC
I broke down and ordered my kit for this GB.


Bob R
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Posted: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 03:17 PM UTC
Bob;

Sad to be the wet blanket, but Pz II Ausf J is NOT "legit" for a Fall Gelb 1940 campaign! This ugly, over-weight "late & very rare son" of the Pz II lineage only came out in April 1942, so missed the French fun by close on to 2 years.

But... Weird as it may seem, I think it COULD "float" in the coming "featherweight" campaign. Right up there with the heaviest of lead feathers, but it was classified as a "light tank", so...

Bob
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Posted: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 03:46 PM UTC
No problem Bob, I will use the H39 that I have and use this Pz II Ausf J for the Feather Weight campaign as you suggest. Thats what I get when my eyes get big looking at prices there is always a solution.

Bob R
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Posted: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 04:25 PM UTC
My kit for the campaign!

Cheers Rob.
ltb073
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Posted: Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 12:09 AM UTC

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My kit for the campaign!

Cheers Rob.


Rob I built that a while back if I remember correctly the tracks were a nightmare I was fortunate enough for a member here to send me a set of Magic Tracks for my build
I wish you luck
panzerbob01
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Posted: Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 03:11 AM UTC

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My kit for the campaign!

Cheers Rob.


Rob I built that a while back if I remember correctly the tracks were a nightmare I was fortunate enough for a member here to send me a set of Magic Tracks for my build
I wish you luck


The tracks in this kit are tiny links one has to cut off the sprue and clean up - same as for the subsequent Dragon "3-in-1" kit of this contraption (kit 6222, which I have almost completed - but which still sits waiting for me to add a few bits and paint... maybe an unfinished biz campaign candidate ), and common also to the Dragon Pz.IB DAK kit (also on my "queens" shelf - NOT because of these tracks...!). As dreams go, this is certainly NOT a set of "sugar-plum" MagicTracks, but more just tedious and repetitious than any actual drooling-monster nightmare! A bunch of trimming and cleaning one might do while taking in a football game or something (so... combining two rather mindless things into one 2-hour or so sitting! )

To me, the REAL "nightmare" in this older kit - kinda-sorta fixed in the 6222 kit and much more so in more recent Dragon Pz. IB - based kits - is that idler. THAT is the thing most saying to me "don't go there". The idler is completely fictitious and has a "rubber tire" just as if it were another road-wheel. But the later kits more-correctly manage to represent the real item - an all-steel wheel with a gap running down its mid-line around the circumference. That "rubber-tire" idler wants to be replaced, if at all possible.

Bob
Bigrip74
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Posted: Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 06:46 AM UTC
Hey! Bob W, that kit that I cannot use in this campaign but move to the Feather Weight campaign just arrived and I ordered it last night regular shipping. Love that Squadron.

Bob R
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Posted: Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 07:51 AM UTC

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@Fabian: I like the way your H39 is progressing. I just enlisted in this campaign, now to purchase another kit not an H39 maybe something British or German. Started to look up what was available online but what British armor was at the battles.
Bob


Thanks Bob, but it´s the Heller Renault R-35 (which is quite simmilar to to the H35/H38/H39-"Series")... a pretty bad kit, decades behind nowerdays state of the art..
But I wanted to have a callenge, and I´ve got it...


In the mean time I´ve scrached the missing tool clamps, put decals and the black lines on and so I guess I´m ready for the clear coat...
If everythig is going the way it should, I´ll be done with tank, figs and base by the end of the month... I should...
panzerbob01
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Posted: Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 08:35 AM UTC
Fabian;

That Heller R-35 IS a rather nasty little kit - but nothing so bad that a neat paint-job and a little detail work won't help out! Looks like you are coming right along with it!

Bob
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Posted: Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 09:08 AM UTC

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Fabian;

That Heller R-35 IS a rather nasty little kit - but nothing so bad that a neat paint-job and a little detail work won't help out! Looks like you are coming right along with it!

Bob


Indeed, the kit has all you can ask for... fitting problems, mistakes in the instructions, (but thankfully both rather small issues), complete lack of detail,no tool clamps, ugly vinyl tracks (which are too loong anyway) ... have I forgot something.. for shure...
But the Decals were fine....
unlike the other Heller ones I had years ago, which were obviously made just not to stick on any surface...

But nevertheless chances are good, just a few paint flaws to correct and some light weathering... but I think my green is already a bit too dark, gonna be carefull with filters and washes...
panzerbob01
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Posted: Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 12:56 PM UTC
"The decals were fine"

You LUCKY boy!

Of course maybe I should not be hasty in complaining about the awesomely crappy quality of those in my copy of this kit... being as I bought it back in 1971 or so and started building it... in 2010!

I'm cribbing some extra decals from a Bronco H-39 kit to complete my R-35 from Hell(er)!

Looking forward to seeing you come to completion here!

Bob
Snorri23
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Posted: Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 02:14 PM UTC
I have previously stated that I will be building the PaK 43. I do really like the ambush scheme that ARV shows for one of the schemes. I am wondering how one might go about recreating that scheme? Otherwise I will just paint it in solid colours. Thanks for your ears. Some great completions shown here for this campaign.
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Posted: Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 09:28 PM UTC

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I have previously stated that I will be building the PaK 43. I do really like the ambush scheme that ARV shows for one of the schemes. I am wondering how one might go about recreating that scheme? Otherwise I will just paint it in solid colours. Thanks for your ears. Some great completions shown here for this campaign.


Wrong thread, maybe?
We´re dealing with the 1940 Campaign... not `43 or even `44 were we could ecpect the Ambush sceme... and to be honest, I´ve never seen anything smaller than a tank or halfrack in this cammo...

@Bob: I´m trying my best... Could be that I was just lucky with the Decals... as I said I already had transpareent foil with some colour on, which I can´t blame on long storage times, as I boght the kit from Hell(er) (quite like that ) new..
Raulito
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Posted: Friday, February 28, 2014 - 11:21 AM UTC
Decals! Arggg!!!

I´m still waiting for the Archer Transfers for my Pz II C.

I ordered them a month ago today. I don´t blame Archer for this, I think our customs policy is a bit frustrating to say at least, but this is not a political forum, so let it be.

I don´t trust Tamiya´s decals.

Never use them in a kit. They seems to me very thick and I´m always afraid to ruin a model with them.

But if Archer´s doesn´t arrive next week then there will be my first time with Tamiya´s decals.

Raul
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