I made a kind of "new year resolution" and I decided not to open a new kit until I've finished all of the kits laying around my workbench (a few millions actually ).
So I've almost finished a Dodge WC-56 (without winch) who took part to the parade held in Trieste in 1956 to celebrate the return of that town to Italy. This very vehicle was carrying the flag of the Piemonte Cavallerie (2°) Regiment of the Italian Cavalry, that's the reason why it's so clean.

The model is almost OOB and is the one from Italeri. The list of the "enhancements" is as follows:

- the exhaust (I don't know why but I do not like at all the ones coming with the kits)
- windscreen wipers (made out of plasticard)
- windscreen (made out of acetate)
- windscreen wipers motors (made out of plasticard and copper wire)
- canvas support (made out of copper film and brass wire)
- cockpit instruments (vinyl printed with a laser printer and acetate lenses)
- Steering wheel (copper and brass wire, plasticard)
- decals ( from A.W.D. )

The ejection pin marks at the bottom of the vehicle will be filled while texturing oil paint for pigments application, once I've decided what kind of groundwork I'm going to do for it.

Comments, critics and suggestions are, as usual, most welcome.

















Ciao

scoccia,
looks really well mate but on the 7th pic it
looks like near the rear wheel arch the paint has run or a bit of filler needs sanding a little, I'd leave the sink holes on the bottom no one can see them
nice adnd unusal choice. Who still held Trieste until then was it Britian? look forward to seeing it finished

Davy,
thanks for your comments. What you noticed on the wheel arch is almost invisible on the model. Consider that the pic detail is 4 to 5 times bigger than the real kit part and it's actually putty building up (the whole kit to go together needed quite a lot of putty).
For what concerns your question, after belonging to the British Empire, Trieste was took over by the Yugoslavians together with a few other areas (Dalmazia, Istria, ecc.) that historically belonged to Italy. Only Trieste was given back to Italy almost ten years after the end of WWII...
Ciao

My friend a lovely looking model. I note on the second to last picture a piece of tyre close to the rim has missed the tyre paint.

You have done a fantasic job of this Italeri kit and I admire you for it.

Thanks very Much Cliff!!!
In Italy we'we got a proverb saying "many eyes see better than two" and this is one of the reasons why I'm more than glad to post my work on Armorama! I looked at it a million times and I didn't noticed that there was a "left over" of the paint from the drybrush that I didn't remove. Now I've corrected it...
Ciao