Famo & Sd. Ah.116 + Panzer III ausf.L: 10-06 Done

Hi there,

Because my wife surprised me today with a new camera, I can show you pictures of my most recent work:

Double Trouble (When it rains, it pours...)

Tamiya’s Schwere Zugkraftwagen 18t. Famo & Sdkfz. 116 Tieflade-anhänger (kit # 35246) +
Tamiya’s Panzer III ausf. L (kit # 35215), Russia 1943.

So no “in progress photo’s” from the start. Right now the Famo is build in parts. I’m busy weathering. Everything is mostly straight from the box. AM: the Famo has “door covers” and a “cabine cover” from Decal Star (# D-027 en # D-029), front wheels are from TWS and the extensionset with the spade is Tamiya’s kit # 35243.

The Panzer III (which is still unbuild) gets Burnt Out Panzer III Wheels and Brake Cooling Fan Housings, again made by TWS and some odds and ends from my PE-scrapbox. Both the Famo and the Panzer III get Friuls.

Panzergrey is made by mixing Tamiya XF18, XF55 en XF70 in a ratio of 1:1:2, postshade is made by adding XF15. The Panzer yellow is “Sail”-color by Gunze. Enjoy ...

















Greetings, Richard.

Looks pretty good to me.

Looks even perfect to me! I'm impressed! This is perfect quality work!
Really great!
Alex!

Hello Richard and first Merry Christmas!
great job and assembly size for this set!
sincerely cheers!

friendly gérald

Wow... incredible start... Nice!

Fabrizio.
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Hi Richard,

You've done a great job on the painting and wheatering on this one, and it's not an small vehicle !

I love the camo! That dunkelgelb on panzergrey looks great to me .

Groetjes( ),

Maarten

Hi Richard, I agree with all the previous comments! The paint and subtle weathering look excelent so far.

Cheers
JT

Ooh Nice one Richard, steady als she goes! Can't wait to see the Famo meeting next Month

@ Marc, Alex: thanks !

@ Gerald: a bit late, but a merry X-mas to you too. The size of the Famo & Sdkfz.116 together is 64cm...

@ Fabrizio, Maarten, John: thanks a lot!

@ Elco: I want Peter, Herold and Frank to bring their Famo's as well. Should make a pretty picture .

greetings, Richard.

Really quality job..!!

Thank you Alkis !

greetings, Richard.

Hi there,

A small update just to show you this project is still alive. I started the Panzer III because of several reasons: a change of spice keeps you hungry and furthermore I want to have the dust and mud on both the Famo and the Panzer III basically the same.

The build:

I added a barrel, “burnt out Panzer III wheels” and “brake cooling fan housings” made by Tank Work Shop, an antenna by SKP and parts of a Voyager PE-set (#35157). Also I used the turretbin, the commander’s cupola and the spare wheels of a scrapbox Dragon-III ausf. J. A friend of mine gave me the Schürzen of another Dragon Panzer III that were needed for the cupola. I removed the transmission housing on the left side. The idea behind it, is that the Panzer hit a small mine, after which two roadwheels and the drive sprocket are useless.

The “transmission cover” is scratchbuild after this picture (thanks to Arjan Wiskerke)



Two weeks of CA-glue and even a bit of fun, and the naked kit looks like this:















That’s it for now. Next: paint!

Greetings, Richard.

Good work on the Panzer III.

Really nice Richard! I'm really looking forward to seeing more of it!
Alex!

Nice work for sure!

Thank you all. I worked on the left side today, made a bit more damage. Also got the primer on. Now we wait for a few days to let this harden. Monday I don't have to work, let's see if I can make it to put some camo on...

greetings, Richard.

Nice details Richard.

Thanks Bryan!

greetings, Richard.

Big one Richard, I like the detail you did on the Pz hub

oh i like this one Richard - a real big project with lots of hard work. The paint work really looks the part on both famo and trailer

best
Mark

@ Chris: thanks! That hub was glued in two more models before it finally ended in this Panzer... I got it painted today, so let's see if I can update in a few days.

@ Mark: you wrote

a real big project with lots of hard work

True: the Famo and the Sdkfz.116 together are 64cm (about 25"), dio will be aprox. 80+ cm (32") long, the dio will contain 15 figures, the scene will be my biggest modelling challenge so far.

I was inspired by the following picture from “Repairing the Panzers” Vol. 2 by Lukas Friedli (isbn 978-1-908032-01-0). Thanks to Peter van Dijk:


© Lukas Friedly 2011. Picture property of “the Archive of Modern Conflict” and made available by Stefan De Meyer & Amy McNamara.

So I guess the paintwork will be a lot of hard work but the most difficult will be the collapsed bridge. You guys here on the AK forum have a scoop: I didn't show this idea to anyone yet.

greetings, Richard.

I like the way this is going Richard!

Really nice work all around. Really like your paint colors, and the subtle, realistic looking, weathering.

@ Elco, Marc: thanks for the compliments .

Too bad you can't be there thursday Elco. I would have liked your expertise on certain issues.

greetings, Richard.

I like the grey colors a lot! very nice idea.