Hi Guys
Thanks for all your very kind comments. Im very happy with this dio, and have sort of been rejuvenated again by the praise. Cheers. I will try to clear up some of the questions raised in this thread in this one post without naming names!
Wipes on the windscreen. Not sure what you mean ... the wipers are there as are clean tracks where the wipers have wiped. It has recieved a little over spray of a matt cote but this is not as visable in reality. Good call on the hole on the bottom of the Jerry can.... I fixed this with a little pastels.
The gun used is a 75mm infantry howitzer. This is how it looks. I think Italeri have a plastic version. This s verlinden one. Dont know much more about it myself.
I used 1 full box of milliput grey (the cheaper stuff) and a half box of milliput fine (the expensive stuff) as i ran out. I actually believe the cheaper stuff was easier to work with and gave a better texture as well. S0 1.5 boxes of cheap stuff would be about $7 dollars here in sweden, about the same price as Italeri or tamiyas sandbag set. I dont think it was too bad. But I agree, for the likes as this a cheap variant would do, but I didnt have the time to search and I had the milliput at home anyway.
Please guys throw no towels in now. Look at the dios from this years Euromilitaire that Jimbrae has posted .... and then throw the towel in, beside mines #:-)
It is indeed the italeri Kubelwagen. At first thats why I decided to use the hood up, to hide the lack of detail. But it worked well with the addition of the decal on the hood (taken from Italeri willys ambulance jeep). I added glue and tissue to the seats and hood and painted with oils for the leather look(the seats). Not really visable but great experience for the next time. The petrol can on the side was an idea from a Military modelcraft international magazine on a 1/16 kubel build. I guess Im getting braver and trying out simple scratching. One must start somewhere!!!
Eagle: I have "pm"ed you and would love to have this a feature.
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Did something blow up there to injure those individuls? I would add some damaged stuff to show the effects of an explosion.
The wall is damaged! Eventhough this is part of the cover-up campaign, it also was a build for a Keith Magee product, for his site. The base is one of his range, called "the alley" so i didnt want to add too much debris to cover up any more of the base than what I needed, and my skill of building demolished vehicles is "not up to scratch". So a mortar or something hit the wall and the gun crew got hit with flying debris. There are some bits of bricks laying around and the crew have only minor injuries, as all are still alive .... well thats my side of the story anyway :-) . Dont even know what a SdKfz 251 Crankenwagen is??
The blood is actually more a of a brown colour in reality. The picture were taken under several bulb lights. Im not 100% convinced with the blood effect either, but it was my first time painting blood, and hopefully it will be better.
Once again guys. Its humbling to get so much praise, but also re-assuring. Hopefully this will push me on to go a step better each time. Thanks once again for taking the time to post and I appreciate all the comments and critic. Each comment is appreciated as I have tried to do something to improve on it. With all your help, it can only get better.
One extra comment was made on the Stockholm IPMS site that the helmets werent weathered. I completely forgot. As I was so busy asembling after painting I just aded the helmets, so its back on the bench again for some weathering and more photographs.
here are a few with the flag added ........ for the campaign and more complete pictures will be in the upcoming feature.
