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Excellent work both on the armoured car and its base. Matchbox really came up trumps by including those bases with their kits.
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The Matchbox Sd Kfz 232 is complete. Not sure what was taking so long, all I had left to do was paint the figures and attach them to the base. Here are the figures painted.
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Here's everything together. I really enjoy the Matchbox kits, whether they're the planes or the AFVs. Very fun to build. I don't remember ever seeing these as a kid though. I'll definitely keep checking the consignment shelves for more of these hidden gems. I know RoG has released some of the original Matchbox kits, but it's just not the same.
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Now, to find a couple new kits to fill the bench, because it's not like I don't have a few sitting in the WIPs box I could work on.
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Nicely done 8-)
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Nice work on those figures.

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That is a really excellent bit of small scale figure painting, Mig and the figures really finish that little Matchbox vignette perfectly. I'm a longstanding fan of Matchbox armour and indeed their armour/military vehicle kits are little gems. Praise be to Revell for continuing to release these kits as original MB releases are becoming more difficult to find and/or more expensive. Although the Revell releases are not usually in the old multi-coloured plastic (doesn't bother me as to be honest I was never a fan and I always paint models in any event) they do include the bases and figures of the original kits.
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Thanks, Gents!

Now, that two are off the bench, two more are being added to it. In keeping with this new tradition, I have one older kit, and one newer one.

First, the old. Monogram's 1/48 FW-190. I've built this kit once before, and it was actually the first kit I completed when I came back to modeling as an adult. In fact, I've made it a point, that if I see this kit for sale in-person, I buy it. I picked this one up at the LHS on the consignment shelves for $5. It was state-of-the-art in 1965 when it was first released, and still builds into a decent looking kit today.
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Next up, the new. Italeri's 1/56 Panther. I've built a few of these 28mm wargamming tanks in the past, and I really like that they are simple to build, but still come with excellent details.
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Just 2 simple sprues, with nice details and not much flash.
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These kits are so simple to build, that here's what about 45 minutes worth of work looks like. The tracks are provided in two pieces, a top and bottom, that fit over a single piece of all the road wheels. I had to build out the drive sprocket, but that was only 2 pieces too.
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The the lower hull, with the option of an open driver's hatch, although a driver would have to be sourced elsewhere. Also, provided is a nicely detailed MG34.
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Here's where I decided to stop for the evening. Maybe 20 minutes of work left on the turret and it'll be ready for priming/painting. The tracks and road wheels are just dry fitted in the pictures, since I'm planning on painting and detailing them separately.
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The Tiger looks a great kit; as you say, plenty of detail but simple to build.
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I think I over-estimated when I said I had 20 minutes of work left. I don't think it even took that long. The Panther is build and ready for priming.
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In fact, I finished it so quick, I decided to pull out the Monogram Butcher Bird. There are plenty of spare parts in the box, including a resin seat that I picked up somewhere along the line.
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Rather than go with the regular Luftwaffe scheme, I decided to do a Romanian plane. I've had this sheet of 1/48 decals for a while and I'm finally getting the chance to use them.
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The Panther and the Focke Wulf cockpit have been primed and are ready for next steps.
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That Italeri Panther is a great looking piece, Mig, with excellent detail including nicely rendered zimmerit.
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Thanks, Shaun.

I decided to go with a 3-tone camo on the Panther. I saw some hard-edge camo examples on tanks from the Wiking Division in Poland, and decided to do a bit of a stylized version of those ones. Still a little bright, and I think the red is a bit too red, but hopefully, I'll be able to tone it down a bit with some weathering and filters.

It took about 5 times as much effort taping this off then it did to build the kit. At this point, I was just hoping I hadn't missed a spot.
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As I said, I'm pretty happy with the result, but I hope I can tone down the red and bring out more of a brownish-red with some weathering and filtering.
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Since this is intended for a wargaming setup, I'm not as concerned with getting this one too historically accurate.
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Nice camo. Certainly breaks up the shape.

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That is a great looking scheme, Mig. Weathering will likely tone it down a bit if you still think it is a little bright - show it some mud and rain streaks :grin:
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That is interesting camo scheme, nicely done
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I do like that scheme, a lot.

1/56 scale - that's new to me. I thought I was odd with my 1/48 scale armor. :)
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Thanks, Gents! The 1/56 scale is a wargaming scale, equivalent to 28mm. These are used primarily for Bolt Action games.

The Panther is complete. I don't like to weather the wargaming machines too much, just enough to pull out some details. After spraying the clear coating the model a number of times, with both gloss and matt, and some panel line wash and a very light over spray of Tamiya Buff, I'm finally satisfied with the red brown.
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This one went together so quickly, I've all but ignored the FW-190. Now, I get to turn my attention to that kit and finish up the cockpit.
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