Panzerkampfwagen II Ausf. C (Polish Campaign) - Tamiya 1/35

[The_Lancaster]

Hi everyone,

This is my Panzer II. Just about getting the hang of the new weathering technique that I've copied off of something I saw in a magazine, this basically involves me spraying a very thin coat of a brown or dark colour over the running gear just to simulate the grime that built up down there and to tone the model down. Tamiya's kit is nice, being tooled in 2008 it is naturally one of the better Tamiya kits and it was a bit of a break from the 70's and 80's kits that I have been building and updating. The only problems with the kit that I faced were the lifting hooks on the turret went missing so I placed a bit of foil painted in Tamiya dark green over the top of the big locating holes to mimic a draped piece of folded tarpaulin. Also the link and length track (in which it was my first experience in using it) was a bit of a tricky job on the first side and I was left with a small gap that had to be fitted with a slightly modified track link to make it look normal, the second side however was slightly easier.

The tank itself was painted in Tamiya acrylics whilst the detail painting was done in Humbrol enamel and Vallejo acrylics which gave the wood colour. Decaling was a bit tricky as a lot of the decals were on the turret and were over vision panels or fairings so Mr Softener was used to give them a bit of help whilst settling (that and lots of Klear!) Weathering mainly consisted of the said running gear treatment and various washes and filters. A dot filter was applied to the turret and some of the more slanted parts of the hull but not all of the tank could be filtered as there's so much equipment on the thing.

Thanks for looking!

Again, thanks for looking. It may not be one of my best builds but, hopefully the Mk. IV 'Tadpole' from Takom will be better!

[MikeR]

Nicely done!

Mike.

[Andy Moore]

Very nice build, looks great.

Andy