Finally, after all these years, I was finally able to pair these two old Tamiya kits up. Even though the new DML 88's are state of the art, the old Tamiya still builds into a nice model: The famo was fitted with Fruilmodel track and corrected sprockets, which also required surgery to the suspension to acheive the correct footprint...







Regards,

Steve

... that looks gorgeous mate! i especially like the dusty weathering on the vehicles. great build overall! perhaps you could add a simple figure to give a human scale to the finished models.

ta.

Nice one Crockett. Love the dusty weathering. As Mojimbo suggested, it does need some life ... a splash of colour. A figure or two would be great, as would some general stowage, in the cage at the back or personal items in the vehicle.
Otherwise, it looks great!

No need to make excuses about the classic Tamiya 88 and Sdkfz 7. They look very impressive.

BTW however. The term "famo" was only appropriate for the Sdkfz 9 18 ton tractor. Famo is a nickname of its manufacturer.

The SdKfz 7 8-ton tractor was made by Krauss-Maffei. I've never heard of anyone referrring to the SdKfz7 as the "Krauss-Maffei". I guess "Famo" just sounds more appealing to the ear than SdKfz 9. LOL

Roy,

Thank you for the correction. Of course you are absolutely right. Just a slip there.

Thanks to everyone for the comments. I'm not really a dio guy but I sense this combination is screaming for that type of presentation, any suggestions?

Regards,

Steve

ok, from the top of my head....

you could do a dio either in france (spring 1940) or in russia (barbarossa - summer 1941-1942)... put the vehicles in a strip of dusty road, with some short grass on either side, and a signboard that says Paris/Stalingrad/etc.. ... and 3-5 figures marching alongside it.....