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Tunís - Panzer III N - 251/1

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82 12 March 2015, 16:12
Es-haq Khosravi
Great job!
13 March 2015, 21:40
Rui S
Thx Es-haq.
13 March 2015, 21:51
Donald Medley
Nice details
18 March 2015, 15:05
Rui S
Thx again Donald... I always try to add some interest to old kit's...
18 March 2015, 15:30
Donald Medley
Well you sure did that!!
1 July 2015, 03:50
Kevin Johnson
Wow, looks great.
18 July 2015, 16:03
John Van Kooten
Very nice indeed! It definitely is interesting 👍 Great work 👍
18 July 2015, 18:53
Rui S
Hi Kevin, Thx for your words and reviving the this album 🙂
@ John Thx for your compliment words 🙂
18 July 2015, 22:53
Marko Paakkanen
Very nice diorama.. lot of details. that's give always realistic appearance.
Good job!
23 July 2015, 03:34
Rui S
Thx a lot for your nice comments, Marko and Michael, much appreciated 👍
23 July 2015, 10:04
Rui S
No oils, no washes, no filters, no pigments (except in panzer II, I think) no aftermarkets, no PE.
Just a badger 200, and lots of humbrol enamel. That was it. Off course the end result shows all that. 🙂
24 July 2015, 01:23
Clifford Keesler
Great job.
24 July 2015, 01:25
Rui S
Thx, Clifford.
24 July 2015, 01:29
Clifford Keesler
You are welcome sir. If it doesn't have wings or rotor blades, I don't have a clue. I just sent all of my armour to Hunter Cummings.
24 July 2015, 01:33
Rui S
HEHEHE I understand, mate.
For me is more, if it as wings it must be on ground with some vehicle around, LOL
is this a lyric??? (((😄)))
P.S. Lucky Hunter...
24 July 2015, 01:40
Neil Patrick
Love this. Reminds me that I:

1. Built these first in the 1970s (badly)
2. Tried correcting and superdetailing them in the 1980s (giving up after countless hours)
3. Bought more accurate, better detailed and much more complicated kits 1990- now (very few finished)

This reminds us that great results can be achieved with simple old kits. Just add skill. It what's in the modellers fingers and head is as much as what in the box that counts.

Brilliant work Rui!

26 December 2021, 10:56
Markus Yliaho
Well done! Nice Desert dio
26 December 2021, 12:40
Rui S
Thank you for your kind comments, mates. Sorry for the late reply.
In this case first I build the pz III, them the halftrack, them I think it was the pz II (built by my sun and painted by me), them I recover the jeep, built in another Century 😄 or vice versa, not sure 🤔 it was a dinamic evolutive Dio, mostly becouse I had the space to add more kits 😉

@Neil, I've to agree with you. Slowly I Will try my best with better and more e expensive kits that I've in my stash. Also looking forward to see what you Will do Next 😎

@Markus, I'm glad you like this enough to comment.
4 January 2022, 17:00
Alan G
Excellent dio and builds Rui. Weathering is perfect
4 January 2022, 17:01
Rui S
Thank you Alan, you are to kind, but I'm glad you like this One too 🙂
4 January 2022, 17:11
Bobisek Bowe
Excellent dio, excellent crew configuration on the Pz.III, 🙂
4 January 2022, 17:13
Rui S
Thank you Bobisek, yah I think they were nicely adapted, mainly the guy in the side hatch. This is an old Dio but thx for reminding me 😉
4 January 2022, 17:31
Clifford Keesler
Well done sir.
4 January 2022, 22:40
Rui S
Thank you Clifford.
Glad you like this one, mate
4 January 2022, 23:46
Daniel Klink
One can really taste the sand between the teeth and feel the Dust everywhere.
Great atmospheri result Mate.. Congrats Rui!!! 👍👍
5 January 2022, 00:21
Rui S
Thank you for your kind comment, Daniel. Really apreciated.
Yap, for me the desert means lot's of dust 😄
This is part of another álbum with more photos of this Dio:
Tunís | Album by mig (1:35)
5 January 2022, 00:50
Neil
Wow! Looks fantastic Rui 👍 I think Daniel summed it up well. You can indeed 'taste' the sand!
15 January 2022, 23:54
Rui S
Thank you Mate. I've learn a lot since, but I apreciate your kind words very much 🙂
16 January 2022, 00:00
Stefan Fraundorfer
A very convincingly built scenery Rui. I like it.
18 January 2022, 17:48
Rui S
Thank you Stefan, Nice of you to stop by and comment this old work. I'm glad you like it.
19 January 2022, 23:51
Alex Rodionov
Nice DAC-dio. 👍
20 January 2022, 04:10
Rui S
Thank you Alex, I apreciate your comment.
22 January 2022, 12:05
Kim Branders
Nice dio Rui.
22 January 2022, 12:12
Guillaume Blanchet
Superb!
22 January 2022, 12:42
Guy Rump
Great modelling, excellent dio, congrats 👍
22 January 2022, 12:45
Rui S
Thank you Mates. Very kind of you to comment. Apreciated. (You know how much I like your work too, so even more important to me).
I think I've evolve a lot since this One, but I sure enjoy a lot DAK scenes and in this case all this 4 kits.
22 January 2022, 14:47
Neil Patrick
Also reminds me Rui just how inspiring those early Tamiya boxarts were. 50 years on and they are still amongst my favourites. I don't know who painted them but he had an amazing style combining pinpoint accuracy of vehicles and people with an almost abstract use of colour. Try discerning a 'correct' RAL colour from them...
22 January 2022, 16:14
C Jackson
Great job, fantastic looking dio
22 January 2022, 16:43
Rui S
@ Neil, couldn't agree with you more. Even nowadays, you look to a pile of 1/35 tamiyas and even the sides are almost Impossible to resist.
@ C Jackson, Thank you for your kind comment, I'm glad you like this One. Apreciated.
22 January 2022, 17:01
Neil Patrick
I put together a Pinterest board with my favourite Tamiya box art illustrations Rui, including some rareties. Whilst the recent ones are okay, none beat those 1970s ones in my view.
pinterest.co.uk/newc..tamiya-best-box-art/
23 January 2022, 10:46
Neuling
I fully agree with Neil and Rui about the Tamiya box art which really was trend setting. I have collected the box tops.
23 January 2022, 11:31
Rui S
@Neil, Don't know why but the ones I like the most are the ones wth the subjects Over white
@Neuling, Over the years I've done that, as you know. And I've done a photoalbum:

My love for the Hobby | Album by mig

You could do One too?
23 January 2022, 15:10
Mina Ro
I am choking on dust and sand just looking at this, beautiful and very authentic!
20 July 2022, 21:19
Rui S
Hi Mina, Thank you very much for stoping by on this one. It was my 2nd dio (I Think).

when I finished the Pz III, I miscalculated the size of the base and then I added the halftrack, then the Pz II (made with my son), but there was still a lot of space left so, I ended up recovering the jeep (made n years before) to add it.

I'm glad you found it whorthy of your kind words. Apreciatted
21 July 2022, 22:21
gvizbi
Excellent dio Rui. I love how busy it looks. So many details, I could look at it for hours 🙂
23 May 2023, 06:59
Mr James
Very nice desert scene. There's a lot of hours in there. Bravo
23 May 2023, 14:14
David Taylor
Superb.
23 May 2023, 14:44
Rui S
@ gvizbi, thank you for stopping by and comment this oldy. I Know you also like Afrika Korps and your excellent examplar model's. Maybe that's why you like this one 😄
@ Mr James thank you. I'm glad you like it. This is one Dio that was evolving for years. The big initial base always left room for another addition 😉
@ David, thx. You are too kind, mate.
23 May 2023, 21:14
Mina Ro
One piece of advice, your painting of figures is great but one small thing to make them pop would be to buy a sheet of archer eye ball decals, I use them a lot but youll need to use a hole punch to cut them out.
24 May 2023, 05:45
James C
Very cool 👍
24 May 2023, 17:06
Clifford Keesler
Very nice.
24 May 2023, 19:44
Rui S
@ Mina, thank you for your advice, noticed, but this guy's where painted a longe time ago. I think I've made some nice progress in figure painting since them, (I like to believe) but I and others always consider that in this scale and to look from 50cm or more, I don't need to give such emphasis to the eye balls, normally I use only a bit of darker color. I'm sure your suggestion will achieve better results than that white big staring toyish eyes that to often we can see in faces. Also I avoid spend money on aftermarket
@ James and Clifford, thx for your comment apreciated
24 May 2023, 20:35

Project info

23 images
1:35
Completed
1:35 Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf. M/N (Tamiya MM111)1:35 Hanomag Sd.Kfz. 251/1 (Tamiya 35020)1:35 Jeep 1/4 ton 4x4 truck Willys MB (Tamiya MM115)3+

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