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Christian Lehmann
Progress is slow but continously.

Markus Helmers
Interesting, where do you even find these kits?

Christian Lehmann
There is a distributor for Europe in the UK. Its name is Tirydium Models.

CaptGPF
Watching!

Christian Lehmann
Some new pics uploaded

Torsten
😎 ❤️️

Juergen Klinglhuber
congrats - looking great!

Christian Lehmann
Thanks Torsten and Juergen!

Gareth Lloyd
The panel fading looks amazing, really nice Christian 👍

Markus Helmers
Agreed, the panels look really good. Makes me want to repaint my Venator.

Christian Lehmann
Thanks Garreth and Markus. I only preshaded the most prominent panellines with a medium gray color. For the majority of the panels I used the primer ( mr.Surfacer 1200) as prehading color. Each panel is seperately airbrushed begining at the center of the panels with a very light gray. For the bright panels I added one drop white and masked the panels before airbrushing them. For the colorized panes I added some olive drab or brown into the light grey base color and applied the high dilluted color in different layers with a brush.

Christian Lehmann
Electronic components are installed and hull is closed.

Markus Helmers
So the fibres are just so you can use fewer LEDs? Also are those premade chips for effects or some type of nano arduino? Not that advanced with electronics yet. I cheat where I can so this is very interesting for me to see how it's done. 🙂

CaptGPF
Using fiber optics to cut down on the number of LEDs is brilliant!

Christian Lehmann
@ Markus: Youre right, the fibres limit the number of LED´s and the small fibres enable to create small dots of illumination like at the turbo lasers . The small IC´s are responsible for flickering and the others at the large bord provide constant current of 20 mA like an electronic pre resitor. Iam not sure if they are really needed but after some try and error they helped to avoid damaged LED´s. I tried to keep it simple because I am also not that familiar with electronics. Power source is a battery pack with 3x1,5V=4,5V batteries and everything is connectet parallel so that each part gets the same voltage.

Markus Helmers
the small fibres were obvious to me, just unsure about the big ones, but that's not a bad idea at all. You can trick so much with electronics. I recently got some LED remotes off ebay for like 2€ each and while I wasn't sure they'd work at all, it turns out they're not only capable of dimming the LEDs, but also come with a bunch of premade effects that you can even adjust the speed of. I was very impressed with them.

Christian Lehmann
Finished! Unfortunately it turned out after final assembly that the LED´s of the bridge illumination did not work anymore. I was able to replace only one of them. So the effect is now not as it was originally.

Markus Helmers
Oh I hate it when that happens. Had a Bandai Slave-1 where I tore cables like 5 times. Still haven't fixed it xD Anyways, awesome build, like I said on FB, the lighting effects are something else! Love it!

Vincent
Very impressive build!!!

Roy Seine
Going to put this one in a diorama. Anyone know of a 1/72 scale german fuel truck model?

Ingo Fuchs
Wow, I would have estimated the Me110 at 1:32 at first!
Regarding the question about the tanker:
MAC 72066 Opel Blitz, MAC 72116 Mercedes, Roden 730 Opel Blitz,
oder Academy 13401 Opel would be suitable!

gorby
Nice work!
German Fuel Truck & Schwimmwagen (Academy 13401, 1:72)
German 3t Truck (Ambulance & Fuel Tanker) (Fujimi 72307, 1:72)
German 3t Vehicle Fuel Servi..AC Distribution 72066, 1:72)

Roy Seine
Awesome thank you guys!

Nicolas
Great. 👍

Björn Svedberg
A simple mini build of the little Jeep 🙂.

Björn Svedberg
Thanks James! 🙂
Now the fun begins, dirtying it all up😉.

Spanjaard
looking really good. well. strange to see a Jeep so shiny. but that is certainly the way to go for some good weathering 🙂 looking forward the complete project. i have a couple of tamiya jeeps pending in my stash 🙂

Björn Svedberg
Thank you Spanjaard! 🙂
The weathering is now finished. I think I might have over done it a bit, but I'm still learning this, so I'm reasonably happy with it.
Next will be an adventure. My first venture into figure painting. I'm only painting the driver to start with.

Björn Svedberg
Thank you James! 🙂
The little guy is finished, and so is this little mini-project. It was alot of fun building the Jeep and learning how to paint the figure. I've hired him to look after my extensive (?!) collection.😉

Erik Leijdens
Nice Jeep 🙂

Björn Svedberg
Thanks Erik! 🙂

Wim van der Luijt
Cool little Jeep!

Björn Svedberg
Thanks mate! 🙂 And yes it is little.😉

Spanjaard
very well done, certainly not overdone in my opinion. i think you can actually make a jeep much dirtier if you wanted to 🙂 actually, i would have added a bit of weathering to the interior. if there is lots of mud outside, the boots of the soldiers would have left some traces in the interior too😉
anyway, it is a very nice job, including the figure!

Björn Svedberg
Thanks James and Spanjaard! 🙂
Yes, you have a point there, Spanjaard. I guess the little guy is a bit pedantic about the inside of his car😉.

Spanjaard
he likes to keep the car clean 🙂

Mark
Awesome build 👌