Russian Half Truck ZIS 42

[hansolo]

Hi guys,

My 2nd holiday entry in 1/72 scale.
The Russian Half Truck ZIS 42.
It's a Russian kit and the quality is quite poor. Lots of flesh and flimsy parts.
But it was an easy build and still lots of fun.

The box art.


The sprews. The green ones are the original sprews of the truck with 6 wheels. The grey sprew is the one with the half track parts.


The build.


I left the cabin and the roof of the cabin unglued so I could paint the interior later.




I used some left over parts for stowage.






I dug up a piece of packaging material form the trash can to use for window panes.
There weren't any provided with the kit.


Painted the base colour of the truck and the back cover and the inside of the cabin.




Next up: Detail painting and decals.

cheers

[wappynutter]

Spied one of these on Facebook in a 1/72 scale group (all built and painted to perfection i might add), by some guy in China.....
Excellent looking piece, so much so i went searching on Ebay and stumbled upon a kit including a Cannon to tow all in 1/72.
Was very nearly tempted until i too did some searching and found the kit was poor quality and needed someone special to turn it into that showstopper i had seen on Facebook....
You are that guy Han.......
I have faith in the Skills you possess dude... lol..
Cheap piece of poor quality tat wont stand a chance in your hands mate...
Looking good so far, Continued success....

[hansolo]

Spied one of these on Facebook in a 1/72 scale group (all built and painted to perfection i might add), by some guy in China.....
Excellent looking piece, so much so i went searching on Ebay and stumbled upon a kit including a Cannon to tow all in 1/72.
Was very nearly tempted until i too did some searching and found the kit was poor quality and needed someone special to turn it into that showstopper i had seen on Facebook....
You are that guy Han.......
I have faith in the Skills you possess dude... lol..
Cheap piece of poor quality tat wont stand a chance in your hands mate...
Looking good so far, Continued success....

Thanks so much for this story of praise, Wappy!
I'll try my best to be that guy!

Cheers

[hansolo]

Hi guys,

I did the detail painting and the decals.
And glued in the window panes.









Next up: Weathering!

cheers

[hansolo]

Something went wrong again.
All of a sudden I see myself quoted.
Deleted that. This instead.

cheers

[hansolo]

Hi guys,

Finished the Half Truck.

Did some oil paint rendering, some more painting, some chipping and some pigments.













That's it folks.
I also have a little dio planned for this one.
But I think I'm going to combine the Truck with my next build on this dio.
The next build being a KV-1b!

cheers

[dogsbody]

I too have read of how difficult this kit is to assemble, especially the tracks. You seem to have dispelled that story.

Your build looks great.


Chris

[hansolo]

I too have read of how difficult this kit is to assemble, especially the tracks. You seem to have dispelled that story.

Your build looks great.


Chris

Thanks Chris! Much appreciated.

cheers

[Coen]

Excellent stuff Han! Can't wait to see what's next dude!

[Danta2er]

I would never guessed that this was a crappy kit

[hansolo]

Excellent stuff Han! Can't wait to see what's next dude!

Next is a KV-1B!
Already built it.
Will be uploading build images soon.
And i'll put it together with the truck on a winter dio.

cheers

[hansolo]

I would never guessed that this was a crappy kit

Thanks!

cheers