Somua S-35

Dave Adel I leave you alone for one Saturday and a Sami's lands in your collection

Dave Adel Samua

Colin Phillips Not really in my stash any more lol

Dave Adel A machine.

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Ulf Petersen That looks nice, David. Count me in!

EnsignExpendabl How do you do the black camo lines, do you mask them or just really carefully paint freehand?

David R. Hi guys, Thank you for your feedback. The lines are free handpainted, calmly and without haste, redrawn twice. Looks pretty clean and is certainly easier than masking and spraying

Fabian D. Nice work. I really like thoses colorful camouflages. Someone recomeded to use a sharpie ("Edding" ) for drawing the black outlines. It worked quite well on my R35.

David R. Yes, that's ne way - vlt I should try that. thus würften the lines are at least somewhat evenly. The R35 is also on the WishList - maybe next year times. So many ideas - soooo little time

Joerg R. Cool gemacht David, und noch nicht mal Olive Drab

Lex Jassies For the black lines on my Char B1 bis I used a Acrylic marker of the German Brand "Molotow". You can get them in a broad range of colors and with a 2 or 1mm tip. For me they worked like a dream. I buy these in a Art store. By the way, a very nice Somua!

gorbygould Excellent!

David R. Thx ))

Matthias Weiss Uhhh I like that one, I´m in!

Rui S Nice work in the kit, dio and figures, Andrew.
Is the ruined house the Airfix kit?
But if you don't mind and I'm permitted a suggestion, you should use a Pz.B.39 anti-tank gun, not a Panzerfaust, because they didn't exist at the time. (Early WW2).

Ian Barclay Looking good, i'm in. Was the heller kit any good? Have had some bad experience with heller.

Jean Tchao I wish I could build my kit as well as you did nice work !

Andrew Eadon Hi Guys thanks for your comments. The ruined house is an Airfix kit I've had it for a long time I think its titled "Forward Command Post" Thanks for the suggestion Rui, always appreciate advice i'm still learning, i had realized that Panzerfausts were not invented in 1940 and an anti-tank gun would have been a great idea. I have added the photos of the new crew...not really equipped to take on a tank...my suggestion is they're removing french officers
Hi Ian, the Heller kit was Okay, not a lot of detail but the fit was good. The tracks were a little hard to fit...nothing some super glue wouldn't fix.
Again many thanks for your comments always open to suggestions.
enjoy your day
Andrew

Jean Tchao Hi andrew what do you recommand for paint colors in order to paint french wwii tanks ?

Andrew Eadon Hi Jean, My references for the paint colours and pattern came from www.tanks-encyclopedia.com, which is a pretty cool website for any information regarding tanks. The paint colours i used for the turret was dark sea grey from Vallejo, Camouflage Green again from Vallejo the bottom part of the tank I used about 40% German Green and 60% Base grey and a touch of wood brown all Vallejo Game Colour. I can't find what i used for the brown in the middle of the tank(sorry) It was a bit of trial and plenty of error. I washed the tank with Vallejo Brown wash to tie the colours together. I hope this helps Jean.

Jean Tchao Hi andrew. Thank you so much. I hesitated with the sets from ak or agama but i will follow your advices

Kim Branders

Andrew Eadon Thanks Kim

Irving González Very good

Andrew Eadon Thanks Irving, appreciate it

Irving González Very good

Jean Tchao Camo & details: Steel master 130 &131

Scott Dutton Still waiting for mine

Christian Meyerhoff This one looks excellent so far! The Friuls are looking very nice on this small tank. Will You paint the them seperated ?
Cheers Mate !

MoJo I dont no paint or burnish and weathering

Christian Meyerhoff Well, but still unfinished ?!?

MoJo wip: first fitting the chain, after the harley days next steps...

Hunter Cummins Have this exact kit with resin turret and metal barrel you have done a great job on it so far!!

Ulf Petersen Well done so far, mate!
Why did you choose the Heller kit instead of the new Tamiya?

Lee Fogel Awesome paint work!

MoJo thanks mates,I started in 1984 to build, four weeks later I must go to the army and I forgot the kit at my parents, last weekend clean up the basement and found it. next try to finished this old kit.

@ Ulf you know "no kit is left behind"

Lee Fogel Wow...31 years in the making!

Holger Kranich Uiuiui, thats a "old crow"! But you are right: leave no kit behind!

Veli-Matti Sivonen I raise my hat to you! It´s great that you continue finishing this kit after so long time.

Christian Meyerhoff And this one will be a beauty for sure!

David Lengyel Here we go

Ulf Petersen Hoooo, calm down, pls!
This is just an idea - like so many others...

Rui S Definitely one to follow. Great idea for the casting numbers...

Fabian D. Thanks,
I have closed the hull. It seems like Heller screwed it completely up there (or made it easy to go the wrong way, as all build ones I´ve seen look like pic 4). While the upper hull should be a bit recessed, Heller went for a smooth blending, not mentioning the wrong shape of the bolt lugs. Luckily it can all be cured with a bit of force, glue and a file.

Hunter Cummins I have this kit with a resin turret lol

Joerg R. Wow, what a lovely kit Seems like the tracks a real "magic"

M.Julian Marles Wish I could ay the same! I have this plus the GMC truck, and a couple others

Fabian D. Had one of these GMCs but in 1:72... feels damm good to have only one of them left to do
I've a have my own walk around of the Bovington Somua, which is the adapted German version painted in french colors. Not sure if that's such a good Ida though

MoJo I´m in. bin mal gespannt wie Du das mit den Kit Ketten löst

Fabian D. Ich auch... hoffe mal da ergibt sich was im Zusammenhang mit dem neuen Tamiya Somua...
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So far I´m not really shure what to do about the tracks, I hope there will be a chaper alternative to the Friuls, maybe influenced by the new Tamiya kit...

Nicolas Valtinson I want this model I'll be watching this closely. If you don't mind me asking what'd you pay?

Fabian D. Hi Nicolas, I´ve bought it from another mate, it was 10€... the PE adds another 10 to it. All in all cheaper than you can get it from most retailers. I´d recomend waiting for the Tamiya kit, wich was anounced just a few days ago. Without having seen it, I bet it will build up nice, is more correct and has better tracks.
Somua S35 (Tamiya 35344, 1:35)

Nicolas Valtinson Yea I saw that Tamiya had one in the works hopefully it's French and not German. I kinda wanna build one in Syria or North Africa. Or maybe a H35 in Indochina.