Austro-Hungarian armor! Romfell no.1 off to the caster. UPDATED 2/27

[Blackwolf]

Hello Doc,shall order a Romfell next week,had a bit of a splurge this week ($200).Always keen on Austro-Hungarian stuff.......it's in my blood,not sure if that's a  ???good thing. The A.C. will go very well with Mancha's Lady Hussars (in A-H colours).



     Greywolf

[Hywel Dda]

No distributors. I sell direct only at the moment.

-Doc

Please consider doing a Minerva for those of us with a Belgian inclination - along with the RN ones I think the Belgians were the first to use a/cs in WW1

[Ignatieff]

Landships only has b&w photos:
http://www.landships.freeservers.com/romfell_info.htm

but they look pretty dark, maybe even black.  Make sure you get that cool looking cross on it, though!

Thanks.  Will do!

[andekmcc]

My two Romfell's arrived this morning - superb work Doc!  Very nice clean castings and and easy to make! other manufactureres take note!  Bit of a sting in the tail was £15 customs duty I had to pay - never had that from the US before!!  Cracking work.  Now to figure out how/what to paint them!!!

Does anyone know what colours AH armoured vehicles were painted???

Hi there

I asked a similar question the forum a while back http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=13358.0 there were no real firm conclusions I ended up going for a dark green on my Junowicz and Lancia http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=13994.0 which is pretty speculative, but I think light grey/dark grey, dark green, Light Brown are all reasonable.  With 2 Romfells you've maxed out on the full complement of ROMFELLs the Austrians had  .  I'm hoping to get one myself but I think my mum visiting her brother in america in a month or 2s time so I think I'll get her to bring it back and save on the duty 

cheers
Andy
ps look forward to seeing a painted version soon 

[Doc Twilight]

My two Romfell's arrived this morning - superb work Doc!  Very nice clean castings and and easy to make! other manufactureres take note!  Bit of a sting in the tail was £15 customs duty I had to pay - never had that from the US before!!  Cracking work.  Now to figure out how/what to paint them!!!

Does anyone know what colours AH armoured vehicles were painted???

I'm sorry about that one, mate. It seems to be happening more, lately. And I'm listing them as toys, which normally helps. If anyone has any suggestions, so long as they are legal, I'm open to them.

The primary color of Austro-Hungarian vehicles was, in fact, Dark Green (sorry to disagree with you Andy). This was the same shade of color used by the Navy, and is often described as a "Pine Green." It was also the base color of many (but not all) of the Austro-Hungarian trains. Thus the "dark, even black" shade mentioned by Will. That said, Mina has painted hers black for ACW2, and the color quite suits the design, I must say.

Glad you like them and can't wait to see them:)

Incidentally, evidence has now surfaced that the Austrians may have built as many as twelve! Woo hoo!;)

Greywolf -

There most certainly is NOT anything wrong with it being in your blood. My company isn't called "Black Army" for nothing.

Hywel -

It's certainly on the list. The next vehicle in production from Tobi is the Ford 3 Ton Tankette. The Minerva is something we get requests for constantly, so I doubt it'll be that much further along the track.

Tomsche -

There are a couple Italian items I'm interested in from the period, at the very least, and I'd also like to cover some of the WW2 Italian vehicles as well. We shall see what the sculptor(s) think of them. In the meanwhile, I would be remiss if I did not mention the Lancia IZ produced by Force of Arms. It is an absolutely superb piece of equipment. You can see photos in my gallery. If you have any suggestions, then by all means, let fly.

We have plans for several more vehicles, but Tobi can only do so much at a time, between having a new baby and (how dare he) running his OWN business.  I would like to find an additional vehicle sculptor, particularly to do the pieces that Tobi has (politely) passed on, but haven't had much luck finding one.



-Alex

[andekmcc]

The primary color of Austro-Hungarian vehicles was, in fact, Dark Green (sorry to disagree with you Andy). This was the same shade of color used by the Navy, and is often described as a "Pine Green." It was also the base color of many (but not all) of the Austro-Hungarian trains. Thus the "dark, even black" shade mentioned by Will. That said, Mina has painted hers black for ACW2, and the color quite suits the design, I must say.

Your not disagreeing with me that was the colour I adopted based on your advice in my original question At that time your suggestion of dark green came over more as a strong suspicion than a fact, I'm glad to here that I chose correctly based on your advice 

[Schogun]

Not to hijack this thread with infinitely more vehicle requests, but a 1/56 Lanchester would do nicely. (Old Glory's is 1/48.)

[Darkoath]

Hey Doc when is the Russian three wheeled AC coming out?

Love the Romfell btw... got mine about a week ago!

Darkoath

[Schogun]

Darkoath -- It's available now (Filatov).

[Darkoath]

Darkoath -- It's available now (Filatov).

OHHH!

Darkoath

[Doc Twilight]

Available now, and ready to ship out zee door. $20 US, and sealed with a kiss from Grand Duke Nicholas himself... ok, perhaps not the last bit.

Chuck, yours will be in the mail tomorrow. My apologies for the delay.


-Alex

[Schogun]

Available now, and ready to ship out zee door. $20 US, and sealed with a kiss from Grand Duke Nicholas himself... ok, perhaps not the last bit.

Chuck, yours will be in the mail tomorrow. My apologies for the delay.


-Alex

Thanks Alex. It was my fault for confusing the invoice as a receipt.

I wondered why it was taking so long to get here. 

Chuck

[Ignatieff]

Am on with painting my first Romfell.  As I said before, a superb model.  However, what about tyre colours?  The picture shows what looks like light grey tyres (or are they made of something other than rubber?).  The superb model has a set of multi-ridged tyres.  Any ideas what bits are the model are tyres, which parts are rims and what colour the tyres should be?

[Doc Twilight]

Ignatieff -

As far as I have been able to figure out, the wheels were basically solid rubber, so my thought would be to paint them black, with metal (or pine green, perhaps) hubcaps/wheel covers, and iron bands. I obviously haven't seen a color photo of a Romfell wheel, but I've seen similar wheels on other vehicles. It's really just a guess, to be honest, but on a few early armored vehicles, particularly the ones with the solid rubber wheels, there was a reinforcing iron/steel band (or series of iron bands) on the exterior of the wheel surface, so maybe that's what they should be?

Glad you like the model:)

-Doc

[Ignatieff]

Ignatieff -

As far as I have been able to figure out, the wheels were basically solid rubber, so my thought would be to paint them black, with metal (or pine green, perhaps) hubcaps/wheel covers, and iron bands. I obviously haven't seen a color photo of a Romfell wheel, but I've seen similar wheels on other vehicles. It's really just a guess, to be honest, but on a few early armored vehicles, particularly the ones with the solid rubber wheels, there was a reinforcing iron/steel band (or series of iron bands) on the exterior of the wheel surface, so maybe that's what they should be?

Glad you like the model:)

-Doc

Thanks Doc, I see what you mean.  I'll give it a go and hopefully do it justice