German Soldiers (WW2), Paratroopers

Richmond wonderful, great work

H K Fixed

John Van Kooten That looks really good!! I wish I had a 10th of your figure painting skills Great work!

Ruslan Sudakov Thank you, John, it's a pleasure to read this. And your interior paint job is superb!

Bart Goesaert pfff, very nice paintjob....

John Van Kooten Thank you too, Ruslan, for the compliment
I really need to add more recent work, though haha

I am going to be using your pictures as a guide for my own painting exercises I'm really loving the Splittermuster camouflage on the FJ smock and flesh colors. Also, the way you have painted the gear. It shows all details so well. Really a prime example of what I would like to accomplish!

Holger Kranich Thats a good looking comrade! The Splintertarn Looks awesome, i agree with John! "Glück Ab!"

Ken Kolenovsky These figgies must be for the 15cm Panzerwerfer! I look forward to seeing your build of these kits.

Bill C It will be a while before I start this one, but it does look interesting.

Thomas Kerl What a cool figure set! Nice rendition of the ... ehhmm ... Paratroopers!

H K @John: Here you can see some pics of the Zvedza Panther ( after a lot of bla bla ) militarymodelling.com/forums/postings.asp?th=101759&p=8

John Van Kooten @Julian:
I have found the Italeri Horch kit and it is on the order list Aside from that, I'm also going to opt in on the new Bronco Horch (#35175)
And Yeah, it does seem that kits where ICM kits are either reboxed or incorporated are cheaper I have the Italeri Sd.Kfz.3b Maultier w/FlaK38 and it was cheaper than the ICM Maultier kit itself had I purchased that seperately
I LOVE Italeri for the subjects they choose!! In fact, I have just today received the Chevrolet Gun Tractor (#240, D-Day version). It's a neat little kit! It does need some PE upgrades but basically Italeri is the only one that manufactures this vehicle. The Tamiya kit of the Field Artillery Tractor (FAT) is out of scale, pretty much scale 1/32 (just like many other Tamiya kits) and unusable... besides, the Italeri kit looks much better to me

@Fabian:
Ha! Thanks for the heads up AGAIN! I must honestly admit that I hadn't even noticed the decals in the Dragon Greif kits were wrong So the Revell was kind of a lucky shot but I'm glad I did, now especially!
And yeah, lol, Revell is save like that, in that I could end up with Italeri in worst case scenario, which isn't bad at all, actually

@Matthias:
I agree! The WoT releases are not worthy... at all... but from a commercial point of view, it's a sound strategy...

@HK:
Wow! ... that is stunning!! It looks AMAZING! Thanks for the link, HK! It's has been immediately put on the next order's buy list

M.Julian Marles @JVK - any chance you can send me a scan or make an album for those Italeri gun tractor instructions?I have the old Tomy pressing sans instructions!! ;P

M.Julian Marles also: "longest 'added to stash' thread" ever!

John Van Kooten Sure thing! I'll get right on it. Be back in a flash

M.Julian Marles no rush....it is currently in my storage locker! thanks pal! Did Italeri include those gross figures - the guys with the boonie hat and the turban? Thanks pal!

John Van Kooten Haha! Too late, I'm already done lol

The page format is a bit annoying, it's longer and less wide than A4/Letter. So I had to scan in A3 and crop the pages Printing them will be a bit of a challenge You'll have to "fit to page", inevitably sizing down the content. Or just read them on-screen, of course

Here's the download: johnvk.com/scalemates/ChevroletGunTractor-Italeri240-DDay.zip

The figures are not included. If they were, they'd have to go

M.Julian Marles Thanks..that's awesome..yeah the old peerless figures....more like 1/32 scale but horrible, horrible!

In the trenches Going to start with this as autumn approaches
Material : lemonene ultra thin, super fine airbrush, revo, Vallejo (wow non toxic so cool)

In the trenches Got this in. Figures are quite a bit smaller than comparable Dragon figures. Box is neat and small. No colour indications are given. There is a lot of tidying work to be done before painting

M.Julian Marles Yes, this kit is ancient, I have two sets (one came with the old stug III). There's probably some good online references..I wouldn't trust the Tamiya guide because the cut of the jacket changed later in the war, so you are limited by the timeline for painting purposes.

M.Julian Marles quanonline.com/military/mili..iforms/paratrooper_smock.php

M.Julian Marles there were a couple of different camo patterns, incl. a soft edge splinter and a hard edge splinter. Ron Volstad's paintings on the Dragon kits are pretty good refs too. The early war smocks were light field grey in colour, also.

In the trenches Mr Marles that is really good info and clear colour pix thanks so much a very big help
I have started stocking up on research materials so it's getting better

In the trenches militarymodelling.com/forums/postings.asp?th=23796&p=1
These pictures were a massive help

Es-haq Khosravi Well done!

In the trenches Cheers, I'm very short on paints, got some in the post, but I was impatient haha

Eend These, a diorama and a Landsverk M38 or DAF M39. *dreams on*

Arne Greve Ich finde die gar nicht als Neuheit auf der HP von MiniArt?

Frank Krause Schau mal unter NEWS: miniart-models.com/news.htm

Arne Greve Komisch. Habe ich übersehen.