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Although being primarily a vintage airliner and car modeller I have once in a while got over the “barbed wire” to the military modelling domain. This time around I’m putting a very old Churchill Mark.VII by Tamiya on the site. The year 1977 was molded on the inside of the bottom plate and there were even places for the batteries and an engine. The kit’s box art showed a French farmer with a cart giving a bottle of wine to two crew men of the tank. I started building the Churchill some twenty years ago. Despite its age, the kit was in my opinion very good and detailed and there were no issues with the fit of the parts. I had additionally ordered Friul's tracks and Eduard's photoetches from the aftermarket. I painted the model with Xtracolor's Khaki Drab and used MIG's pastels and burnt sienna oil paint for weathering. As a source of reference for the painting and details I also used the excellent "Modelling the Churchill Tank" booklet by Osprey. My model depicts the Churchill Mk.VII of the 34 tank Brigade’ during the Normandy landings. The Churchill was one of Britain's most important tanks and the Mk.VII is the most advanced version of them with a 75 mm cannon and thick armour. In total, more than 6,500 Churchill tanks were manufactured..
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I built this 1/35 scale Königstiger a couple of years ago from an old but a very detailed and high quality Tamiya kit. The model depicts the tank number 008 that belonged to the Kampfgruppe Peiper in the battle of the Ardennes. On December 20, 1944 the tank hit a land mine and had to be abandoned near the village of Trois Ponts. The kit was very detailed and the fit was perfect. I applied additional details to the model, e.g. Friulmodel tracks, an aluminium barrel and two photoetch detail sets from Eduard. I painted the camo with Vallejo acrylics and weathered the tank with oil colours, Mig pigments and Tamiya weathering sets.- 14 replies
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Hi All. Here my Stu.G III early prduction I made some times ago. The model is from Tamiya range, kit no 35197 built straight from the box. I only added some photoetched parts from Royal Model such as metal rail on deck and Friul Model tracks. The ammo boxes, drum, jerrycans and weapons came from Tamiya accessories. The non standard, civilian skis are an artist guesswork which added some colour and came from Dragon set. The winter camo scheme was made with Tamiya acrilics. Washing was made with Black Humbrol and coloured pastels (brown, yellow, black and light earth). The antenna on port side came from the first idea to depict a Stu.G III from Funklenk Abteilung 302. Later I change my mind and “attached” this assault gun to 2nd battery of Stu.G Brigade 202 which fought its fierce battles in Kurland pocket in march 1945 till the end of the war. Sorry for bad pics! Hope you like. Ciao Filippo
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TAMIYA 1/35th TIGER I (Frühe) FRIULMODEL TRACKS (ATL-25) EDUARD ENGINE GRILL PE It took me 4 hours to find this GIF and work out how to get it on this page, so you'll forgive me if I don't provide well lit, nicely framed and focused photos of the following: In truth I was having a bit of a laugh, I can't compete with the photos some of you provide, so I've deliberately gone the other way! The glares on the kit box, Eduard package and sprue bags took a good deal of setting up to achieve. Photos of the box of Friuls to come, when I can remember where I put it! Hmmmm. They were in the log basket by the fireplace! I'm guessing they were on the mantelpiece and one of the cats knocked them off! A bit of slug damage will add to the realism. Let's not forget how German Tigers often slipped their tracks, due to excessive slug slime! BTW, If you compare the detailing of the Friul track links to the details on Tamiya's rubber bands, there's barely any difference - the only notable one being that the guide horns on the Friuls are open. (they have holes in them, in other words) Of course, metal tracks hang better and the individual links don't bend (like rubber) around the sprocket and idlers, but possibly the Friuls aren't worth the extra expense. (Whereas my Nashorn's Winterketten Fruils were worth every penny) Waits for the fun to begin. Badder
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