Recently I got a few junk vehicles from a friend of mine and so I dug out a bunch of my old WWII German Roco Minitanks to see what I could do with them. These old Roco are not terrible and with a little and sometimes a lot of work or imagination they clean up okay, I think.
This old soldier the Roco SWS halftrack has been in my collection perhaps 40 years. I painted it a very long time ago. The track link is from an old Nitto tank kit, I think, as is the gas can.
The machine gun is from the old Arii / Eadai / Grip SdKfz 251 halftrack kit. When Paul Heiser Models and later, Trident came out with that vehicle in HO scale I dumped all my Arii ones after salvaging their machine guns. By dumped I mean gave / traded / sold them off.
Bucket and shovel are Roco.
The model was all painted by hand, no air brush and spray paint. I don't know what paint I used, probably mostly Testors in those tiny glass jars.
The jack is from Roco. I had two armored infantry battalions of these at one time, now I have reduced them to one battalion and a second battalion of SdKfz 251. I figure late war it would be not unreasonable for a few of these to become armored personnel carriers as substitutes for the real thing. I have no evidence that it happened, but it is theoretically possible, however unlikely.
4 comments:
The SWS was the backbone of Charles Grants armoured infantry battalion in "Battle", so if it was good enough for him, it is good enough fir me!
I really like this conversion; The paint job and the added details really makes this model!
Grant and Featherstone both did a lot of cool things back in olden times.
Thank you Roger, it was time consuming but I did several at one time so do each one with the same color before moving on to the next color speeds up the time consuming clean up.
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