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Holger Kranich
Good ´ol Tamiya stuff, always nice !

Kerry COX
It's a snappy and beautifully detailed little kit Holger, and with a minimum of clean up as you go. 🙂 👍

Holger Kranich
Is on my wishlist for a Long time. I like These "Spähwagen" very much. So i will Peak over your shoulder.😢

Holger Kranich
Interesting: Gerd von Hohendorff was a luitenant in a recon Regiment and died very early in the war.

Kerry COX
I like that there are two variants and the parts that apply. 👍
Heaps of seam lines to get rid of, on every part unfortunately. 🙁
And though you get heaps of access doors and hinges, there is zero internal detail. 🙁
But it is a 'dated' kit, and the interiors like we have now from Takom and such were just not available.
The only 'extra' detail stuff is a gun barrel and some PE lifting lugs and headlight covers. !

Bryn Crandell
What a unique vehicle. A lot of interesting detail which is typical for a Tamiya kit. I agree some internal deatil would be cool. I would like to see a drivers interior and enging compartment that could be diplayed open. I may have to hunt one of these kits down.

Holger Kranich
Hey the molds are from 1974. I wasnt even Born back then. So be Kind to this kit-grampa. 🙂

Kerry COX
What's that you say sunny. ? Wah. ?
Hehehehehe. All is gently placed in position and totally devoid of any offending seam lines and flash. 😉
Only two crew members in 'tropical/desert garb and should be easy to "paint", doing just a single coat of matt clear and weathering the dried result. (just for kicks) as the colour of the plastic will allow me to avoid having to paint the sand colour, only to then 'dust' it in the colours of many miles on dirt. 🙂 43c in the shade. Make it look sunburned/bleached and thirsty. 😉

Kerry COX
James. That goes for both of us mate, having only ever done one with just the matt clear and then weathered.

Slavo Hazucha
Nice job on the wheels 👍 the masking really worked flawlessly, top!

Kerry COX
Slavo. The 'trick' to getting a good result after painting was to remove the parrafilm as soon as possible after painting. As it will still be a little damp, but soft enough to help over come the paint flaking and feathering on the demarcation line where the rim meets the rubber. 😉
Letting the paint dry to total hardness creates problems when the masking is removed. But if one was to 'score' a line with a sharp blade along the demarcation line, that is the way to get dry paint to not shatter or 'feather'. 👍