Hello everyone!
After more than a month I'm at this stage with my project.
There remains the decals and make the weathering of the model.
Here are some photos of my work progress.







Happy New Year at All and Success.
Kalin

Welcome aboard Shell Look forward to that one.

Kalin, fantastic work there. Love the canopy

Pretty much ready to start painting; just need to decide how to tackle trying to recreate a Lend-Lease Stuart captured by the Germans on the Eastern Front, possibly in the Caucasus. The pic I posted leads me to believe the tank is mostly dark yellow, with splotches of likely green and brown shades, but I am still wondering if they might have just sprayed the yellow on the tank's original color so as to show the green underneath in order to conserve paint? Or if they reapplied a green color after totally repainting the Stuart? Make sense?

Wheels are all prepped for spraying, and will be applied after I can get some work done on the chassis area behind them, since that is obviously harder when they are in the way.

This is actually my first Allied armor build since the late 1970's (likely a Bandai 1/48 kit) and ironically is being built as an Axis vehicle.



I had to return to teaching after the holiday break on Wednesday, and had dental work that same afternoon, so I haven't had much bench time but fortunately this being a Tamiya kit the building part is not a worry.

And ready for painting:



Four weeks to do three color camo, which leaves one week per color, and one for decals, weathering and tracks. Will be ready in time unless some kind of disaster pops up.

Don't tempt fate like that Pasi.

Time to show my Progress. Main construction completed. Wheels, idler sprocket and tracks all come apart for painting. The mesh for the exhaust is also being left off for painting.


In the reference pic, the tools have long since vanished, so the clamps will be empty. I used Aber as I make them workable so I can paint the tools separately. Probably could have used Dragons here in hindsight.

Most of the interior is done, just a few touch ups and some additional stowage for the British troopers.









Ready for primer and painting now.

well i'm calling this one done.

ladies and gentleman i present to you one Iraqi M113 which has been captured by isis (daesh) you can see the green number plate on the front of the vehicle and the isis flag on the side of the vehicle which was painted over the iraqi flag

Peter, Klaus, well done! both kits look awesome!
Cheers
Matthew

Very nice indeed David. I hope you had fun. Thanks for joining in.

Well I have paint and decals down and grabbing a few minutes to start weathering before SWMBO comes home. Will post pics over the weekend.

Painting instructions for three colour camoflage were lacking (no top view, no right side), so did all green scheme instead:



Weathering, painting details, tracks and tools and then it's done.

Hello everyone!
I finally finished my project in the campaign.
Here are photos of the final version.









It was a pleasure for me to participate in the campaign.
Good luck to all!
Kalin

Congratulations Kalin. Looks much beter after weathering.

Really just chickened out on doing the camo didn't you Pasi?

Seriously though, it is looking great. You are on the home stretch now.


Kalin, great finish on Max. The weathering really looks the part of what you would expect in the Western Desert. It has been fun to watch this one.

Bogi, Peter, thank you! I tried to make my models look good.
Kalin

Won't admit that It definitely is a lot quicker paintjob.




Thanks, and should be done in week or so.

Progress update, PzKpfw 730(f) ready to paint.

Nice Lapman

@Lapman. How is the RPM kit? It looks like a nice clean build.

Almost done:

Well down the 'track' there Pasi

Okay, I'm calling this one finished for the build even though I just noticed the front retaining bar for the spare tracks is AWOL. A quick look for it has turned up nothing so a scratchbuilt replacement will need to be made and painted…

I deviated from Dragon's painting colours as their call is for what is supposed to be light mud and dark green, where I believe the green should be black. Whilst both green and black disruptive colours were used, I believe the reference pic to show it far darker than the green. Also, Dragons rondel decal is concentric-ish circles of white, blue, white and red. The outer circle was usually yellow on the vehicle rondels at the time and I believe the reference pic also shows a clear difference between the two, so yellow was hand painted over the decal. The red centre should also be larger - contemplating doing that.


The actual vehicle - look at the colour on the rear fender hence the choice of black. The upper surface is quite dusty in other pics, so I think that tones down the black. That is my call anyway :

… and the build

Peter, I'm impressed. Visually is one to one with the real Panzerjaeger. Congratulations on working on the model.
Kalin

Peter, nice model indeed.

So, my M3 is a theoretical unit captured on the Eastern Front in the latter half of 1943. I chose it mostly because it blends with my existing builds and usually I see DAK versions of this tank. Balkenkreuz are the only markings she will get. I just have to paint the tools and fiddly bits, finalize the tracks, and apply the last weathering layer.

And done:



Two more photos are in the gallery

Thanks for very interesting campaign. It's fun to see well known tanks in unusual scheme and markings.