I’m not officially participating in this one, but i wanted to show my only “winter” vehicle.
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ah c’mon… you can do another one…
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Would a Swiss Messerschmitt Bf 109 qualify for this campaign? Most of the plane is white with red stripes but I am not sure if it was intended as a winter paint scheme.
I have never successfully executed a winter paint job and was planning on doing something super easy for this campaign, possibly a Tamiya PaK 40. If the PaK 40 goes well, maybe I could dare the 109. There are a lot of paint schemes and techniques I would like to try for this campaign.
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I am going to enter with this:
And add this:
Then add this:
And finally these:
I had lost my modeling Mojo for the last 6 or 7 months, did not finish the other 2 campaigns I was in…feels like I got my Mojo back…hopefully I finish this one.
Eric
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Thank you…would you or anyone else know if Marine tanks in Korea were the regular WW2 Olive Drab, or the more “Bronze” Green Marine Corps tank color?
I hope your mojo is really back Eric.
It would be great to see this one done.
I have always planned to do mine as one from the Chosin Reservoir:
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Excellent question, I would have to look it back up. As I recall they came from storage stock at Barstow.
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Considering that most of the armor used in Korea was pulled from WW2 stocks, unless it was newly made and shipped from the states. My recommendation on color, use Vallejo Olive Drab Rattle Can spray. It has a very nice shade of Olive Drab that works perfect on WW2 vehicles.
Of course, Tamiya’s Olive Drab is a couple shades darker, but it works well for post WW2. AK Interactive also makes a set of US Army and USMC Olive Drab shades.
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Thank you, I see in the Tamiya instructions it says that in Korea the Marine tanks were the same color as the Army units.
@Damraska I’d say “go for it!” and welcome aboard.
@Floridabucco Excellent choice and welcome to you as well.
Interesting choices for both!
Outstanding job Ron! Now THAT"S what winter whitewash is supposed to look like - it gets applied with mops and brooms - none of this airbrushed nonsense. Great effect.
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In the pictures that gave me the idea for my build you can see a couple of Merkava’s… so…
No idea what brand this is but got it from some shady webshop in some dark corner of the WWW… it is almost identical to the Tamiya one…
Even the instructions…
The differences sofar:
And the plastic is a bit softer so some details are a little les sharp…
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I looked at the box top and said, “What the hell IS that?” I didn’t even recognize it as a Merkava.
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Well said !!
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