Somua French Medium Tank
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adding arms and legs from other kits
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sorry about the photos
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making more wood rubble
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working on layout
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adding wood and rubble
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more bricks and wood
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attempting to make roofing tiles
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Not sure if this will work🙂
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Making and adding cargo
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Added the roof tiles ready for weathering
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starting to add cargo and antenna
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Made the decision to cut out the turret hatch...probably should have done that at the start
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Now i need a French tank crew...i'll have to make one from a German tank crew
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and so it begins
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creating the 'd' shackle
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creating the gate
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adding the gate🙂
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The diorama need something else...maybe a wagon?
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where to place it
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Adding cargo
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Almost finished
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Comentarii
1 29 April 2015, 11:03
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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).
7 October 2015, 16:33
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Looking good, i'm in. Was the heller kit any good? Have had some bad experience with heller.
7 October 2015, 20:20
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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
7 October 2015, 22:47
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Hi andrew what do you recommand for paint colors in order to paint french wwii tanks ?
8 October 2015, 19:16
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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.
9 October 2015, 12:42
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Hi andrew. Thank you so much. I hesitated with the sets from ak or agama but i will follow your advices 🙂
9 October 2015, 14:41
Album info
Early WW2, French infantry and Somua tank rush into action...must always remember to look behind you. Hidden in a ruined house is a German soldier with a panzerfaust. Having realised (pointed out) panzerfausts weren't around in the 1940's battle for France, so I've included a crack team of German soldiers to get in behind the French advance and cause mayhem.