Brian, you are correct and thanks for pointing that out. The “Light and Shadow” first factory appeared around end Aug 44 and wasn’t widespread to the factories until Sept 44. This scheme was also the first factory applied.
I will have to try the polka dots on another project!
Day 28 & 29
Did some interior painting and painted some radios. Still a ways to go to completion, but it’s getting there.
Thats the business
Very very nice detail painting… The inside will be top notch when it’s all complete 
Very cool painting technics for the camo and interior details of the halftrack. I’ve should bookmark this topic for my resurrection in this hobby, especially for the WW2 German theme!
Warm regards,
Garry
Thanks for the compliments.
The detailing and paint look great.
Day 31
I did some wiring on the radios, I think I hear Tokyo! The wires still need to be painted and the connectors cleaned up. I would also like to try and clean up the paint job on the radios.
I haven’t figured out where to hook up the enigma machine, antenna and morse pad. If anyone has info I would appreciate it.
I just figured out the enigma was a standalone unit, d’oh! Had to do some reading at the cryptomuseum Enigma Cipher Machine
So they would type on the machine, get the new code, and then talk over the radio with it’s code?
That looks super … great detailing Steve.
In Cold War recent memory (ie mine!) I recall how East German/Soviet agents would attack our data cables - which were strewn from staff complex to staff complex on exercise, when I was at our Corps HQ in BAOR.
Sorry, zip to do with Enigma I know, but it just reminded me. They were serious days(!)
They would type the message on the machine, that would turn to morse, they would then send via morse code. The other end would type the morse code into another machine to decode.
The machine could operate on 4.8 volt battery or 4 volt DC. So I will have to link a cable from the machine to a vehicle electrical socket.
I will also have to figure out which radio to be used; Air or Land? I will research more to see if they had switchers back then for telegraph keys.
Interesting
Looks great Barney, enjoying the daily updates!
Day 31 ½
I did some cable painting and added a few more cables; two will go to antennas, others link the transmitter and receivers. More cabling to be done for headphones, morse key and speaker.
I also didn’t like how the 100 W.S. transmitter was painted so I am redoing it.
That is some outstanding work there; well done you!
On the Enigma Machine, I think it could also run on an internal battery.
There are some nice shots of it being used in the movie “Das Boot”. The longer versions show it best.
Ken
