There has started a new campaign recently and I thought I could start a new build blog of my share. The Tempo wasn’t really a “truck” in the traditional sense but it could carry goods and wasn’t bigger than most cars of its time. I still remember in the very early 1970’s in the village where I grew up there was still one “Dreikantfeile” driving around, as the german nickname for these 3-wheel vans was.
When I noticed that MiniArt comes out with these cute little vehicles I bought them promptly. But with nearly 50 €uros per kit they are not really a bargain …
Anyway, let’s have a look at the kits, first the A400 …
I have nearly finished my F4F Wildcat builds, so I should start with these kits in the next days. My usual comfort zone are military aircraft from the WW2 era, so let’s see how/if I can get some civil vehicles together. Maybe some of you will have a look in this blog from time to time.
Will be following as I have a few of these versions. Was going to do this A400 for the Hot Molds campaign. My dad recalls these vehicle or ones similar, what he recalled was the steering wheel was in the center. More of a one person vehicle, not two.
Ryan, the Tempo was indeed made for 2 persons, it had a normal steering wheel on the left side like other cars. I guess, what you or your father means is an italian made Piaggio Ape. It’s more like a 3-wheel-motorcycle with a cabin and a small cargo bed and has the steering in the middle. Just saw one from a Pizza delievery service on Friday in my town.
Not much to show yet, only want to let you know that I have started with the builds. First parts glued for the … ummh … “cockpit” … and prepared on my clamps for painting …
Thanks a lot, guys! Hope I get the Tempos together. Nothing to show yet, just painted the parts seen in my last posting. Next step is assembling them. I keep you updated …
Finally I can show a small update of my Tempos. The “cockpits” are more or less finished. Adding the windshields was a catastrophy. First I used White Glue but the windows didn’t stay in place after a day, so I finally used ordinary Revell Contacta. Masks are cut from Fine Line Gold Tape but I also used some Revell Color Stop (similar to Humbrol Maskol) for the edges. I also noticed that the plastic of these kits is quite soft, so the parts might break easily …
Hope to start with the cargo bed of E400 later today.
As I said, job life kept me away from the bench. Been away for work several days and this was the view from my hotel room. If you know what monument can been seen in the middle here, you know where I was. It’s exactly 110 years old and it’s in Germany …
A town whose name can’t be pronounced by most Swedish journalists,
they use the sound ‘sch’ for both the ‘z’ and for the ‘g’.
Makes me cringe every time I hear it.
Schweiz gets pronounced Tschweitsch, aaaarrrggghhhhh …
Yes, I was in Leipzig and the monument is the Völkerschlachtdenkmal or Monument to the Battle of the Nations, which was opened in 1913, 100 years after the battle. Been to the monument in 2010 for the last time. Didn’t had time to go there this time …
Robin, being Swedish, you should know that area around Leipzig from an other battle (or battles) 181 years earlier to the Völkerschlacht. The soil there is indeed blood-soaked …
It’s a funny thing; 50-odd years ago when I first got to Germany as a young private soldier, I remember that whenever Corps HQ deployed into the field we seemed to drive past a couple of Wilhelmine-era monuments - albeit in the very far distance, but always impressive and slightly sinister in the mist or early dawn. These were the Kaiser Wilhelm memorial at Porta Westfalica and Hermannsdenkmal in the Teutoburgerwald respectively. I was sufficiently interested in that I sought further information from the Army library in Bielefeld and discovered what was really a tourist-type book including pictorial coverage of lots of these monuments, and for some reason I recognised the Leipzig one even after all these years.
I remember that but am pushed to recall what I had for breakfast yesterday!
and prepared on my clamps for painting …
