Sd.Kfz. 250

Zsolt Czegle Following!

Rui S Hi Kezza,
Thanks' again for your words. much appreciated.
Yah Mate, it was pure luck, Hehehe.
I've lot's of defects and lack of humility seems to be one of them, Lol.

Kerry COX Ah. !! being human is fun. LOL
Defect and all, your a bloke I would be happy to buy beers for, as often as you like.
I AM going to have a beer or two with you mate, as I am getting ready for March next year and I will definitely be in Europe for the Wangerooge meet, and a look around while I'm there.
Oh, BTW, I just punched 70 in the face today.
I am old, but I am yet to let it effect me. hahahahahah

Blaubar Cheer Rui, really great result.
Happy Bday Kerry!

gorbygould If this was your first project in this scale, I'm curious to know what models you built before? The vehicles, particularly the half-track are very good, the stowage bits and the sheets are excellent. So you must have had a reasonable amount of experience before doing this dio.
And Kerry, Happy Birthday from me.

Rui S Hi Kezza Happy Birthday Mate, I hope, You will count many more with great health.
But be careful, Mate, as said previously I love beer hehehe, and can't wait to drink some for free...
@Blaubar Thanks' for your kind words Mate, very welcome.
@gorbygould, Yes, before this I had built some UHU glue with 2 or 3, 1/600, plastic ships (if you get my drift), One Spitfire and a Zero in 1/32. (WOU That zero without paint but with the decals used to fly so much. and contrary to the real thing it was indestructible).
Then dozens of 1/72 Airfix airficraf of all kinds, this time painted with gloss enamels, and dozens of Matchebox Airfix and other brands 1/72 AFVs. Some of them in the beginning also with gloss colours and later on I discovered the matt hehehe. Oh I almost forgot a Airfix-calssic ship in 1/144, in brown plastic left without paint, a White 1999 Space Eagle, just with Black Red and Silver (again gloss), and so on and so on. So I think I got some experience before.
Oh Nostalgia...

Spanjaard happy birthday Kerry, lots of years of health, bear and of course modelling

Kerry COX To ALL my scale mate frinds and neighbours.
Thank you ALL for your wonderful wishes on my 70th, and I hope, with God's help, we can do it a few more times yet.
Cheers and many thanks for your friendship over the years. Priceless.
I love you all.
Cheers again.
kezza. (Roo) to all you out there. hahahahahaha

Kerry COX When I see some of you one day.
The beers are on me.

Angus MacVicar Thanks Pete for bring this kit back from New Zealand for me...

Gauge1TrainsDK Joining a GB at Adam Mann's Google+ page with this kit - my first Dragon kit and first GB

Angus MacVicar Not a good quality kit...

Attila Papp Well... you might be right. According to Scalemates database Revell and Dragon kits differ only in decals.

Rui S So, EnsignExpendabl no wrong choices with this one

Fabian D. Actually Revell would have been the right choice here. Moulds are the same, but only Revell has the correct Decals. One of the "Greif" decals should have been only white outlines, not filled out.

Attila Papp Well, it's hard to decide. On the vehicle's left side it looks like it was filled ([img1])
But on the right it is definitely just an outline ([img2])

Attila Papp Anyway, the decals of my kit are just rubbish. Maybe they are old, but they just fell apart. The "GREIF" for the left side was in such a bad shape, I could not use it... What a pity!

Fabian D. Exactly what I meant, left side filled out, right just outline... could have worded that differently to avoid confusion
If it would be of help I could provide you with a scan of said Revell decals.

Attila Papp Thanks Fabian, I think I'll create a dio which displays the vehicle before it turned into the famous Greif. Or at least sort of...

Attila Papp Building done. I'll set up my "photobooth" to take better pictures later.

Dave Sollory Awaiting build.

M.Julian Marles Good Greif! OK someone had to say it, no?! What a great kit of arguably the world's most famous halftrack... I have the Tamiya version but this one is lightyears ahead of course. Good luck on your project!

M.Julian Marles Just curious..does Dragon include the "Adler" decals as well?

Kevin Johnson Nope, but I have the Tamiya decal around somewhere.

M.Julian Marles Thanx just curious. I have never seen anyone do the Adler version in 25 years of modelling ha ha

Kevin Johnson I think I might

M.Julian Marles hmmm I am a bad influence!

Kevin Johnson Maybe, but I want to finish my Bison I first

Rui S I've Loved that kit , the first time with a 1/32 vehicle in the other century, so long ago I don't remember the year

Vimal Indrasoma I'm enjoying the build, hoping to do justice to the fine molding and details, especially the figures.

Vegard Øksenholt That happened to me too, just a couple of weeks ago! Haha

Es-haq Khosravi Great job!

Vegard Øksenholt I was thinking about spilling Tamiya extra thin glue over the excel mat by the way Model is looking good!

Johannes Haglund Yes, I figured that Thanks!

Christian Ristits Wow John, very impressive! Nice details, and an awesome realistic build! Love your bench too...with millions of different colours

Aghis Barberopoulos Lovely work!

M.Julian Marles lookin good!

John Van Kooten Thanks guys! I appreciate that very much!

@Christian: Haha! Yeah, the colors! I am still working on the color ranges and weathering products (adding to them) but it's getting there

This is the current state of the bench, btw

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H K It`s so uncluttered, I wouldn`t find anything

John Van Kooten Hahahahaha! ;p LOL!

Christian Ristits Amazing Assortment!

Anthony Flanagan Dear Lord!! How can you do such good work and keep your work space so well organized?!?! Picture me turning green w/ envy.

Roy McKay That is the cleanest workbench I have ever seen......

Kim Branders I'm tuned in John, and your workbench is tidy really nice .

John Van Kooten @Roy: me too! hahaha!
@Kim: thank you!

Matthias Weiss I'm in, looks promising!

Anthony Flanagan John - I'm tuning in also. I would like to see what you do with the road wheels per our conversation on my Jagdpanther.

John Van Kooten Thanks, Anthony!

These particular Sd.Kfz.250 wheels have been handpainted in the meanwhile. But I will start with a fresh set of (Jagd-)Panther wheels to do the test I will post the results both here and in your album

I'm already at part 5 (5th album) of this build at the moment 5. Interior as good as completed | Album by JohnVK (1:35)

H K Thanks for the advice. So this kit is based on the old one Sd.Kfz. 250/1 'NEU' Armored .. Carrier (Dragon 6100, 1:35) and not on the premium kit Sd.Kfz. 250/1 NEU (Dragon 6427, 1:35) Very strange as you say.

John Van Kooten Yes, that's correct. Based on the original 250/1 (#6100).

None of the Premium additions are included. None of the PE, not the DS tarp, none of that. So the only extra value in this particular Orange Box is basically the figure kit.

Personally, I'm not buying this one. I will just pay a few euros / dollars more and get the Premium version (#6427), which has a LOT more value. I can get the figure set elsewhere + cheaply. And if really needed, you can also still get the #6100 kit for a couple of bucks. Whatever one would do, it would always be cheaper compared to getting the Orange Box. I see no reason for its existence

Fabian D. funny... just came across the same kit on Armorama today: armorama.com/modules.php?op=..id=220618&page=1#1856199

John Van Kooten Ha! That IS funny! And interesting! Thanks for the link! I will be following progress on that one!

Fabian D. seems quite a good match, as you´re both planing in the same direction
the link Frenchy provided is superb, at least if you´re going for the "312"

John Van Kooten Yeah, absolutely! The link he posted is absolutely awesome! And like you say, we seem to be heading in the same general direction lol

Again, thanks for the link!! It will provide me with some good intel!

Wayne Hale I am thinking of getting this kit. I will be watching. Great job so far!

John Van Kooten Thanks Wayne!

It's a great little kit! I can recommend getting it. It isn't 100% accurate, especially around the front seat area and dashboard, but still an absolutely wonderfully engineered model. No fitting issues at all so far. There are some ejector pin marks on the older injection molded parts that are included. However, most of them are either very easy to remove with just a little bit of sanding (in locations that are easy to access) or are in places where they can't be seen once assembled. So not really an issue as far as I'm concerned

Dave Flitton I wish mine was that clean, and as big.

Holger Kranich That looks like a good place to be!

Lionel Marco
That looks really tidy, I hope mine will be like this more often..

John Van Kooten @Dave: I started out a long time ago in what you can pretty much call a closet it drove me bonkers and led to me giving up the hobby for a long time. But since then I have moved to a larger home and decided it was time to capture and claim one room for myself!
I hope you will get a nice hobby room for yourself sometime too!

@Holger: Thank you! It really is a nice place to be. I have my computer desk on the other side of the modeling bench and because it's a nice & tidy room I can also just sit and relax there

@Lionel: Thanks! I have found it's all a matter of cleaning up afterwards. After each phase of a modeling session. If I don't do that, this place will look like a war zone in a matter of days but I like a clean desk, where I have everything handy, enough working space and where I don't have to go on search & rescue missions to find parts I have misplaced

@Michael: Tidy is a good thing! IMHO, of course! I just saw your hobby room too and it looks absolutely GREAT! The view is most definitely a LOT better than mine! Stunning!! I really love the floor boards as well! Beautiful color!
And yeah, I have put in a small white carpet specifically for the occasional Carpet Monster offerings gotta keep the Gods happy! hahaha!

Rob van Dodewaard Chaotic?? I just wished that my chaos looked liked this.

John Van Kooten Hahaha! yeah, it's really not chaotic at all, is it?

Frank Krause Great model, Paul! The price is well-deserved. Congratulations!
The tree branches come up nicely.

Steve Wilson Hey! Paul.
I TWIGGED on you'd win a prize for BRANCHING out on this great build, well done...
Sorry

Christian Meyerhoff Very nice indeed. Stunning work

Stefan Suessemilch Great job Paul, congrats to the prize

Markus Kutsch Done.

Markus Kutsch I have this one still to add to my stash.