Evening all,

The Sdkfz 231 is getting shape.
Here are some pictures of the basic paint job. Still got a lot to do, but the first steps are taken.









Peter

The 231 is looking really good Peter, nice work.

Hi Guys I'm in. Just got my Mk IV Ausf D

Some work on the small Zvezda,

John:

Looking like some progress being made! Starts looking panzer-like when you get running-gear on

Soon as I hit this stage, constructive work generally pauses while I regress to drive my plastic panzer-hull around the bench! You know, testing to see whether that little Krupp boxer engine has been hooked up right and finding whether those shop-trainees actually mounted all those wheels correctly! "Varrooom! Putt putt putt - squeal!" "OK. Whew! It works as advertised. I'm all good now - time to get back to work!"

More in a serious tone... IF you have not cemented those idlers in place yet... you can do a simple but pretty substantial fix-up on them... The idlers look pretty nice from the side, but have solid rims. These idlers did not have a solid rim, but rather there were two thin parallel rims - inner side and outer side - with a gap between them. Easy to create by taking your thin saw and sawing through around the wheel rim from the track-contact face and creating the gap between the sides. This actually is pretty visible on the build, so... Google the Panzer I-B and take a look at idlers in pics. Newer Dragon kits have done an OK job on these idlers.

Bob

Bob with so many builds I don't have free space to drive my little panzer around the bench , I need to build an aircraft so I can fly them around a bit ... VROUAAA



Anyway here's what I've found so far,

not much here,


but it's getting better



Here's a nice shot,



Some more photos,

And it´s always improtant to test the recoil system on guns the same way, how can you be shure everything works as it should



No real progress on my R35, but I started with the figures. I´m currently waiting for a Lifecolor set, as I thought replacing all my needed (and of course dryed in) Revell enamels wouldn´t have been much cheaper...

and I´m also trying to invest more time in my figures, so I spend the whole evening just with painting personal equipment for two guys, but haven´t completed anything

@Fabian;

Yeah - You are so right - you gotta check the function of those recoil buffers and stuff, too!

@John;

Your pics - at least a couple of them - show the idler form pretty well. There were a couple of idler types in use. Interestingly, you posted a pic showing the "other" idler version! In both versions, the rim is split - again, something easy to address in your kit. Your posted "Kleiner" pics both have the idler you (and I) have, and which is very nicely detailed in the "Toadman" pic in the second link I've posted below.

Terry Ashley at PMMS got onto this issue of 1-B kit idler wheels pretty early on, looking at the earlier Dragon I-B based kits (which had these solid-rim idlers)

http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/reviews/vehicles/dragon/dr6218.htm

http://www.toadmanstankpictures.com/panzer_i_ausf.b_13.jpg

While over looking at the "Toadmanstanks" pictures, you can check out those bogie-unit details I mentioned earlier...!

And yes, do some thinning on those various aspects of those idlers! They are pretty thickly-molded.

All this panzer I-B discussion has caused me to go pull out and do some work on a couple of Dragon I-B types I've had resting on the shelf for a couple years!

Bob

Now it's my fault ..

Yeah! Go ahead! Just bask and wallow in guilt and blame!

I'll still get those old shelf-Q going! It'll be a sort of race... I think mine are still a bit further along than yours, so I could claim to have some sort of lead... but you are getting places a lot faster than I am! It's too much of that playing around between doing any actual work that gets me! Vrrroooom!

Just to make sure that we are not getting confused... your nice, color close-up pic of an idler is of a Pz IV idler - also a split-rim design, but doesn't count for our Pz I-B idler discussion!

Bob

Of course, it's a sub-discussion, on the overall, usually underrated idler discussion, we decided to focus ours on the little Panzer I B idler

Hi guys/girls. I am in with this campaign. After receiving money from the mother in law for my birthday, I picked up an M151A2, a Swimmwagen and a Kubelwagen.

I plan on building the Kubelwagen for this campaign.

This will be my first build of an Italeria kit, so any helpful tips with their models would be greatly appreciated

Hello Gentlemen,
I'm going to build a model Sd.Kfz. 10/4 with Flak 30 from Ghost Division. I found the web a few interesting pictures of this vehicle so I have inspiration. Let's get to work. I hope that there will be a tragedy for the construction. A few months ago I built Demag with Pak 38 and some worked very hard but see how it goes. The main thing is to not alienate.





Paweł

Welcome aboard Pawel.

Nice choice Paweł,
this kit spend several years on my whishlist, but somehow i never got it...


gonna be interresting what you´re aiming for, which Ghosts are you going for? Rommels 7PD. or the 11.PD?

I'll make him in Rommel's 7 PD camo. I would like to do in the future, all available versions Demag.I really like this vehicle.

Paweł

Okay, now for an update. After building so many tanks, this is my first wheeled vehicle in a long time, and being a two seater car, really, really small.

Here is some progress photos of my Kubelwagen. So far the Italeria build has been of good, if not fantastic, quality, with most parts fitting with not alot of re-engineering required.

Front and rear seat and engine cover are in. Gear lever, Handbrake, and pedals are in.



And the Bonnet, suspension and wheels are on



The body colour is just the undercoat. Vehicle is yet to go to the paint booth for final coats

Four seater sorry , that normal only carried two personnel.

I think I need another

It looks cool that your kubelwagen, also built it once but in Africa Corps camouflage. Very nice to remember him.

Paweł

Quite a multi purpose thing, and quite often to see in the Wochenschau, hence there is a lot of inspriation...
I´ve got the base version by Revell, must be at least 70% the same kit...


I´ve got half of the cammo on, I somehow messed up with the painting instructions and assumed the wrong base color, and ha to change plans, but that saved me from brushpainting




I think i´ll wait with the black lines till the end, cause I think thinners and washes will mess up with the black finliner i´m planing to use...

Hello,
Here are some photos of the progress at my Demag.








So far is good, I had to rework some parts inside, since those supplied were crude and other than in the original.

Unfortunately, I removed some of the photos from Picasa, and disappeared from the previous posts.

Paweł

Looking good there Pablo_g

I think I will have to include one or two of those into my collection.

Well with more building under the belt, the Kubelwagen is ready for final touch ups and paint. Then to work out how I am going to situate it. And of course the decal/markings to be applied as well.

Thanks Brad, your Kubelwagen also looks great , but i think you should paint frame of the windscreen.

Paweł

Thanks pablo. I agree about the windscreen frame. That will be getting the paint works conducted with the final paint job.