Author Topic: Captain Blood's Western Desert: P.125 - SdKfz10 half-track with 2cm Flak 30 (Read 281028 times)

Captain Blood · « **Reply #1860 on:** March 16, 2022, 10:35:43 AM »

Thanks all

Quote from: vodkafan on March 16, 2022, 09:43:11 AM

Great work! I like the way you have the sand in the crevices of the tyres rather than the other way around, how did you achieve that look?

It’s just a very thinned wash of AK Interactive’s ‘Africa Dust Effects’. I just slop it on and let it pool in the recesses and crevices. It dries to a plausibly dusty / sandy looking finish

They make many different earth / dirt / mud / dust effects - think you could achieve similar effects with all of them if you were portraying other theatres, e.g. NW Europe or the eastern front. Fun to use, and very easy.

David H · « **Reply #1861 on:** March 16, 2022, 02:31:23 PM »

Quote from: has.been on March 15, 2022, 02:29:21 PM

I would believe you if you told me it was 1/35th

Agreed - and your figure painting is much better than many 1/35 scale modellers attempts.

Another lovely vehicle added to your collection.

MaleGriffin · « **Reply #1862 on:** March 17, 2022, 03:42:17 PM »

Excellent work! I agree, they are way better than a lot of 1/35 I've seen!

Golgotha · « **Reply #1863 on:** March 17, 2022, 04:46:16 PM »

Fantastic and having seen this one https://trainstanksandplanes.com/history-on-wheels-museum/ it is surprising how small these Protze vehicles are.

Captain Blood · « **Reply #1864 on:** March 21, 2024, 03:45:42 PM »

Well, almost exactly two years on - during which intermission I've been doing virtually nothing but toiling away on painting ECW (necessarily

) and WOTR - I've finally circled back around to try to finish off a few more pieces for my ever-expanding Western Desert WW2 collection...

Here's the completed Rubicon kit of the SdKfz10 half-track with 2cm Flak 30 aboard, and a few (partly kitbashed) Rubicon 88mm DAK gun crew pressed into service.
(They really have the fabled squashy DAK field caps all wrong, but apart from that... )

I don't use aircraft in my WW2 games - far too complicated. So this will be used as a portee, strictly in an anti-vehicle / anti-personnel capacity.