Desert GB Gallery

[Enzo the Magnificent]

Post your completed builds here. No more than five photos per entry.

Please do not post comments in this thread. All comments should go in the subject's build thread.

 

[Luke1199]

Israeli Air Force P-51D Mustang - Hasegawa 1/72

 

 

Thanks to all who stopped by, hopefully a few more to come from me

[theplasticsurgeon]

Airfix 1/72 Hurricane IID,  No 6 Squadron RAF - flying tin-openers

 

[PhantomBigStu]

Smer P-40K 112Sqn, painted with Vallejo shades to represent the Dupont RAF Equivalents it was delivered in, these being 902, 872 and a  lightened 879,. Finished with Winsor Newton Matt 

[LorenSharp]

Otaki

1/48 Curtiss P-40E

Warhawk

My first entry Otaki's 1/48 Curtiss P-40E in British North African Livery.  Pretty much OOB with the exception of added detail to the intake oil filters. PollyS, Mig -Ammo,Tamiya for paints, and some decals from my spares box because of off colour of some the kit decals.

Thanks for stopping by. You can fine the WIP here:

 

[LorenSharp]

Airfix

1/48

Supermarine Spitfire Vb

Desert Scheme

 

 

My second entry Airfix's  1/48 Supermarine Spitfire Vb in a desert configuration. Vallejo, Tamiya,  Ak Interactive, and Alclad II paints. Techmod decals for the markings.

 

Thanks for stopping in and having a lok see. You can find the WIP here:

 

 

 

 

[LorenSharp]

Monogram

1/48

Hawker Hurricane Mk IIC

South African Air Force

For my final entry in my desert trifecta, Monograms 1/48 Hawker Hurricane Mk IIC in SAAF livery. POllyS , Mig -Ammo, Tamiya, and Alclad II paints. Aeromaster Hurricanes at War Part III for the decals..

 Thanks for stopping in. Here's the WIP.

 

 

 

[stevej60]

Hi all,here's a pair of Hobbyboss easy kit Emil and Gustav 109's in their North African scheme's.

 

 

 

 

 

[Marcel]

First of all thank you guys for such a lovely GB.

Here is my Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIc, Arma Hobby 1/72. You can see the build HERE

Just Master cannon barrels and HGW seat belts were added, all paints and varnishes by Gunze. Thanks for looking.

[TEMPESTMK5]

                                                     ArmaHobby Hurricane IID N°6 Squadron Egypt 1942

 

Humbrol Brush painted

 

 

 

Build Thread here

 https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235129609-armahobby-hurricane-iid-squadron-6-egypt-1942/#commentsis

 

Thank you for this GB ..

 

Patrice

 

[Andwil]

Tomahawk IIB, Lt Danny Saville, 2 Sqn SAAF, El Adem Libya, November 1941.  Airfix 1/72 scale kit, decals from Xtradecal X72139 Curtiss P-40Bs, painted with Hataka acrylics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Paul @Dansk and Craig @modelling minion for hosting the GB.

 

AW

[modelling minion]

Curtiss P-40K Warhawk

Lt. Robert J Overcash

64th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group, Tunisia May 1943.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Built from the AMT 1/48 kit and finished with Gunze, Tamiya and Aeromaster paints with decals from an Italeri boxing and stencils from my mate Richard. 

Build thread can be found here;

Thanks for looking.

 

Craig.

[Zephyr91]

A PAIR OF EMILS

White 6 is the ICM Bf 109E,  Black 8 is the old Airfix (1976 vintage)

 

WIP here https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235131218-was-that-a-camel-no-an-emil-or-possibly-2/

 

 

 

In keeping with the old Airfix kit, I also opened up and used some almost 40yr old Humbrol Authentic enamels. 

 

This is my second GB after a failed Blitzbuild so I've been pleased to get these over the line.

 

I've enjoyed bulding alongside all the other desertees, and thanks for the company.  Thanks also to the hosts and their unfailing encouragement and advice.

 

Thanks for looking. 

 

regards

 

Rob

 

 

[Stef N.]

Sd.Kfz.232 Schwerer Panzerspähwagen 8-Rad "Afrika-Korps"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you all and hopefully I'll see more of your brilliant builds.

All the best, Stef.👍

[theplasticsurgeon]

Desert Bofors

[IanC]

AIRFIX 1/76 MORRIS CDSW AND 40mm BOFORS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[gregg136]

Academy 1/35 M113 Zelda (Build thread)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ModelingEdmontonian]

This is the 1/72 Airfix Spitfire Mk. F. 22 with Tigerhead decals Syrian Air Force markings built as part of my Spitfires-by-the-Seas project. Based on much friendly advice, I've brush painted with "sand" and "dark green" upper camo and a light blue underneath. My kit didn't have a clear sprue, so I robbed an Airfix Mk V and Eduard Mk IX for windscreen and canopy. Otherwise she's built OOB.

 

 

She is mounted on the stand with magnets, including one glued inside the bottom of the fuselage.

 

 

Here's the underside:

 

 

I left mine pristine-ish, but this is apparently how at least some of the Syrian Spitfires ended their lives!

 

 

Thanks for a fun GB everyone!

[PeterB]

This is my Revell1/72 M1A2 Abrams in a desert type finish, perhaps from the time of the second Gulf War. Here is a link to the build thread -

 And here is the model itself.

 

A simple OOB build and quite enjoyable.

 

Pete

[PeterB]

An here is the Revell 1/72 kit of the export T-72M in Iraqi colours - another pretty straightforward build but I was encouraged to try the "hairspray" weathering technique to show the paint chipped and worn and the original Soviet green showing through in places. Here is a link to the build thread-

 

 

I suppose logically I should have kept the "chipping" for the much older T-55 I also modelled, but it was an interesting experiment as I had never tried it before.

 

Pete

Edited November 25, 2023 by PeterB

[PeterB]

And here is the third of my batch of desert armour, the PST T-55 with the odd modification to make it look like one the Iraqi army used in the Gulf Wars. The build thread is here-

 

And here is the tank.

 

The PST range of tank kits is actually quite good, though they are hard to find these days, being made in Russia. The rear fuel drums are actually the worst part of the kit and the above macro shot shows the problem.

 

Pete

[Torbjorn]

 

Finally managed to finish. Hobby2000 rebox 

of Hasegawa Macchi 202. Built pretty much out of the box to depict the airframe of tenente Juilio Reiner of the 73rd squadron stationed at Fuka, Egypt in 1942. Build thread:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 27, 2023 by Torbjorn

[modelling minion]

Curtiss Tomahawk Mk.II

Pilot Officer Neville Duke

112 squadron Royal Air Force, Egypt, January 1942.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Built from the very nice Airfix 1/48 kit with the addition of seatbelts and ring and bead gunsights, painted with Gunze and Lifecolor paints and markings are from an Xtradecal sheet and Italeri underwing roundels.

Build thread can be found here; 

Thanks for looking.

 

Craig.

[PeterB]

Back in around 2011 Italeri released a couple of sets of 1/72 "snap-fit" Italian armour intended for wargaming and I bought a few of them. For this GB I have built a couple of "Carro Armato" M13/40 medium tanks and a couple of the Semovente M40 da 75/18 self propelled artillery/tank destroyers. Here is a link to the build thread.

 

The first two I finished as part of the Ariete (Ram) Armoured Division in the plain light sand finish that was generally used between 1941 and the early part of 1943.

 

And as there were 2 in each box, I built a couple more in different camo schemes - a M13/40 in an early scheme following the change from the old dark grey/green to sand with some green striping as a disruptive pattern, and a Semovente in the new "official" scheme introduced early in 1943 of dark sand with green and red/brown patches.

 

 

 

Nice simple kits of something not commonly available in this scale, which fills a gap in my collection of desert armour. When first introduced the M13/40 was comparable and some times even better in terms of armour thickness and firepower to contemporary British and German tanks though the internal layout was poor and they had reliability problems. Before long however they were outclassed and Italian industry and designers proved incapable of doing much more than just tinkering with an obsolescent design - the final M15/42 version having a slightly more powerful gun, and thicker armour with a lengthened hull to take a modestly more powerful engine. They used the same chassis to make a self propelled artillery version with a short 75mm in a fixed boxlike structure, and as with the German Stug III it was found that the lower silhouette, coupled with a fairly effective AT round made it a passable tank destroyer.

 

Pete

[stevehnz]

A Desert Storm Marine AH-1W from the Revell kit. It soon became obvious it was in fact an Italeri kit, but gamely I soldered on & got a result I'm quite pleased with.   

the build thread is here. 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to all who ran the GB & those who gave encouragement along to way. It's been a goodun.

Steve.