After having finished my Fallschirmjäger project on the Tiger 1, I made a try with the Halbkette.
I choosed the grey version, and yes, I am aware it is not period correct in this color, but I really do not care about it!
So I‘d rather not start a discussion about this.
The Halbkette just needs to fit into my Ostfront Company, together with my Tigers, Panzer III, the Kübel, Schwimmwagen and the BMW motorcycle.
It is nothing fancy I did until now.
Only weathered it with real sand and the scratches were made with Ammo Aluminum matt.
The Torro decals……well what should I say……
As usual I started with a coat of high gloss clear at the spots the decals should go.
Next using Micro set and Micro soll with the decals and in the end a layer of clear varnish matt.
But somehow it did not really came out the way I expected it to be.
The enamel matt did not make the enamel gloss disappear very well, so I was a bit p*ssed off about that!
Anonther issue, as I made it an SS vehicle, due to German regulations these are forbidden signs.
So they make these signs out of 2 parts.
You must ad the lower parts of those S onto the license plate decals seperately.
So you put on the license plates first, let them dry and next you put the lower part of 1 S on first.
When dried, you finish the 2nd S with the other lower.
It worked pretty good for me, besides that the decals are slightly pink.
So by adding the lower S parts onto the white license plates, the pink still shines through.
I fixed it with weathering.
Last night I took a couple of pics as the vehicle sits now.
Later last night I made a few changes again.
Painted the tools and benches, the exhaust and I used 2 needles for those things on each front fender, because the ones from Torro did break while I made an attempt to put some slack into the tracks. But they were too thick anyway.
No clue how you guys call these….
Must finetune it a bit more and make new pics of the entire vehicle.
As crew I have those 6 men from SOL/Ali, 2 gunners, 1 officer and 3 soldiers jumping out of the vehicle.
Besides that set, I also have 3 more standing figures to go with it.
But the officer and front gunner need some surgerey to make them fit the vehicle.
So I am still figuring out what is the best way to make them fit.
With both gunners came 2 MG‘s which replace the stock Torro ones too.
Here are a few pics, more to follow later today.
Rob.
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