Land-Wasser-Schlepper No. 1071

[Lee Drennen]

After a wash of Tamiya flat black thinned with water, the contrast has notably improved:

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Now on to drybrushing, decals etc.

Very nice and looks toned down now Jakko cool looking build

[scottie3158]

That looks better.

[Guest]

Only problem is that it, of course, also made the model a fair bit darker overall Hopefully drybrushing with basic Panzer grey and then some lighter shade(s) will help with that, though.

[Mini Me]

Nice finish on it now, should look the part after some highlighting. :thumb2:

[adt70hk]

Coming on nicely Jakko.

ATB.

Andrew

[Guest]

Now the whole model has been drybrushed with Italeri tyre colour:

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That’s a dark grey, but lighter than Panzer grey, and after this will come a medium grey drybrush to add highlights. (In the picture, the model looks lighter than it is because of reflections from the rounded bits.)

[Guest]

Small steps, but it’s getting there … I painted the roadwheel tyres with Italeri rubber colour, followed by a coat of thinned-down Indian ink:

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Maybe they need a bit of drybrushing, not sure yet. At the rear, I noticed the flagpole wasn’t fitted on the vehicle as photographed at Vlissingen, so I cut it off, filed the mounting flat and drilled it out:

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Followed by painting it, of course Also, I added the markings, which isn’t much:

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The number and symbol on the bow are from the kit, but the cross on the side is from a Techmod set for 1:72 aircraft. This because Bronco’s are too small: about 8.5 mm, when measuring in photos tells me they should be about 10 to 11 mm. These are not quite the right style (nor are Bronco’s, BTW), but they are far closer in size to what they should be.

[adt70hk]

Coming on nicely Jakko, it really is an odd looking beast!

ATB.

Andrew

[Guest]

I imagine people would be very surprised if they saw one sail up to a beach and it didn’t stop but kept going onto it. The more I look at it, the more I’m convinced this was considered to be a boat that could also go ashore when needed, rather than a land vehicle that could also swim — which is how things like the Allied LVT, DUKW or Terrapin were viewed. The flagpole that I removed is a good sign of this: vessels have a flagpole, ground vehicles don’t usually.

[adt70hk]

I imagine people would be very surprised if they saw one sail up to a beach and it didn’t stop but kept going onto it. The more I look at it, the more I’m convinced this was considered to be a boat that could also go ashore when needed, rather than a land vehicle that could also swim — which is how things like the Allied LVT, DUKW or Terrapin were viewed. The flagpole that I removed is a good sign of this: vessels have a flagpole, ground vehicles don’t usually.

You're probably right. Without the tracks it looks a bit like a boat on multi-bogie roller skates!

[scottie3158]

It certainly looks like it would be at home in the water.

[Guest]

I’m kind of wondering how well it sailed, but I don’t actually have much documentation on this vehicle. Certainly nothing that goes into that side of it.

[Guest]

A coat of matt varnish and the whole thing is darker with more contrast again … oh, well.

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I then removed the masking tape, during which I managed to push one in:

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It took a lot of fiddling with tweezers and a sculpting tool to get it back in place, during which I had to hold the model above my head so that the plate the window sits in, was more or less horizontal.

Also, it turns out that putting tape on the front windows before glueing them in was not the best way to do it. Some of the tape gets caught between the window and the frame this way, so anyone else building one, I would advise to only tape off these windows after glueing them in place. There is no such problem with the portholes in the sides, though.

[minitnkr]

Look'in mighty fine Jakko.

[scottie3158]

Looking good.