Tamiya 1:35 sd kfz 232 8-rad

Post by **gustavlekstal** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 12:32 pm

Here is my entry

Boxart

Eastern front and balkan

Dak

Early panzercommander and packing the spruces together...

Crisp and clean!!!

Addons. Alpine dak figures, mg34, distance rods

Some photoetch from tamiya. The barrel is to short!!!

Tamiya when you add a barrel get it right!

Gonna give you a introduction of its history and plan of attack for the weathering later on.

Ill hope it will not go completely pete tong and happy modelling

Post by **gustavlekstal** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 12:53 pm

The chassis were built by Bussing-Nag, Deutsche Werke of Kiel made the assembly of the preseries and series I with Schichau (at Elbing)

German Sd.Kfz 232 (8-Rad)
Type Armored car
Place of origin Nazi Germany
Specifications
Weight 8.3 tons
Length 5.9 m (19 ft 4 in)
Width 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in)
Height 2.9 m (9 ft 6 in)
Crew 4 (commander, gunner, driver, secondary driver)
Armor 8-15 mm (.31-.59 in)
Main
armament
2 cm KwK 30 L/55
Secondary
armament
7.92 mm MG34 MG
Engine 8-cyl petrol
155 hp (115.58 kW)
Suspension 6 or 8 wheels
Operational
range
300 km (186 mi)
Speed 85 km/h

Source: wikipedia

The tactical role of these machines were to provide additional firepower as heavy armored car, a squadron of these beeing attached to each motorized reco unit (Aufklärungs Kompanie) attached to the Panzerdivizionen. Other vehicles of these units included by 1939 Kübelwagens and Schmimmwagens, Zündapp or BMW sidecars, Sd Kfz 141 light armoured cars, and several Schwere Panzerspähwagen.

In each company, there was also a 232 variant equipped with a powerful long range radio apparatus. Later on, it appeard that a more heavier armament was needed inside the reco unit

The 231 and radio-version 232, introduced before the campaign of Poland soldiered well until the end of the war. They were seen on nearly every front, from the Mediterranean to Russia and North Africa and most of Europe. With the DAK (Deutsche Afrika Korps), they proved invaluable and fitted perfectly with Rommel's combined arms tactic and unique vision of desert warfare. The flat ground of the wide desert expenses allowed this armoured car to give its full potential, although it has never been conceived for a hot environment and never properly "tropicalized". The engine, notably, suffered badly under this climate.

Poland

Greece

France

since the original armour was never intended to sustain more than small arms fire and shrapnells fragments, the platoons tried to evade clashes with other AFVs when possible. However in many cases, these machines were seen providing infantry support and destroying light tanks and enemy armored cars alike. Speed, combined with surprise, could bring very efficient results thanks to the rapid-fire and devastating HE rounds of the 20mm at short range. Their superior agility also helped them to steer backwards and evades quickly a superior force if needed. In other cases, many served as ad hoc police patrol vehicles, dealing with partisans in the Balkans and Russia.

Source: http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/n ... _8-rad.php
Photos: Books

Post by **UKguyInUSA** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 2:27 pm

That's a nice looking kit with all the extras you have. Will you be putting the vehicle and figures into a diorama setting?

Post by **gustavlekstal** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 4:14 pm

UKguyInUSA wrote:That's a nice looking kit with all the extras you have. Will you be putting the vehicle and figures into a diorama setting?

My plans are to do a late dak 8-rad whit this camo. Changing the aerial and bits and bops?

And thinking that this looks like a good dio. Stoney and dusty settings of Tunisia

Post by **FlyingCoffin** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 4:37 pm

Looking forward to this one!

Post by **Tiger131** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 4:43 pm

love these just think they look cool so look forward to seeing your come along

Post by **AchtungPanzer** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:48 pm

Nice model - and super choice of camo for - Will be great

Good luck mate

Post by **Yevgeny** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:06 am

What a beast of a vehicle!

Post by **wappynutter** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:17 am

This is gonna be an excellent piece......
Good luck my friend...
All the best..

Post by **gustavlekstal** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:22 am

Thank you all for the kind words. This model is almost a one dayer

But I love the little car of fast fury

Easy happy build for any beginner and someone who wants a quick fix of tamiya heaven
Its not detail crazy. I would love to do dragons puma that is made around same time as this, to compare.
Good night!

Post by **Yevgeny** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:24 am

Finish date is in January not this month

Post by **rwsmith14** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:46 am

Great subject. Camo should be interesting along with the dio.. Good Luck should be terrific !

Post by **Russ72** » Sun Oct 26, 2014 12:15 am

Very cool vehicle, and nice camo choice.

Post by **gustavlekstal** » Sun Oct 26, 2014 8:08 pm

Thank you

Little update. The späwagen is finished and starting to add stowage.

Antenna is from a dragon kit. Drilled out the old antenna mounts. Mg34 and distance rods.

Now for some stowage!

Dryfitted and then a rolled out blanket of milliput white is fitted over the "stowage". Pressed and wiped down with a cottonbud dipped in some water.
Rolled the milliputty out with some flouer

Result

Gonna fit it to the späwagen with some canvas stuff from am works

If you want to be able to take the canvas off you put some thin plastic wrapping in between. I didnt cause I can work around it on this wagen and it lifts the canvas during the work
Good night!

Post by **Deacon** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 12:11 pm

Nice start and a tempting buy for me who is looking to start 1:35 AFV building.

Post by **Tiger131** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 4:38 pm

God im working slow everybody is steaming through there builds...love what you've done so far

Post by **gustavlekstal** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 5:30 am

Deacon wrote:Nice start and a tempting buy for me who is looking to start 1:35 AFV building.

im to clumsy for the 1:72

but tamiya is good first.

Tiger131 wrote:God im working slow everybody is steaming through there builds...love what you've done so far

Thank you! I took a day off work, with no wife away on work until next day. That was my secret!

First tamiya kit. I just pointed and plastic just jumped together. Not the same detail as dragon but I still loved it.

Post by **hansolo** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 6:31 am

Great work on the tarp! The buckles are a very nice detail!

Cheers

Post by **FokkerDXXI** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 8:07 am

interesting subject. the kit looks quit nice. I really like the canvas part.

Jos

Post by **Coen** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 11:37 am

Very cool! I'm beginning to fall in love with these wheeled armoured cars.
I love that stowage. Nice work on the trap and buckles.

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 10:22 pm

Nice nice nice!

This looks like a cracking kit

Great progress, keep it up

Post by **gustavlekstal** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 12:50 pm

Thank you all!

Small update. Have had little time for play and just alot of work and wife duty

Added camonettinh. Cheese cloth, cut into shape and rolled up with white glue and water. Wrap in plastic
"Rope" is towing cable that im gonna make look like rope

Gonna look smaller when it dries. Broke off the antenna

but I knew that I would do that, so I had already orded a replecment

Oxidrot, yes going for hairspray. Have to improve my hairspray teq after seeing han solos work. Grey and oxidrot looks terrible but im adding one more color to the camo.

Post by **Coen** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 12:56 pm

Very... Very cool!!!!!

Post by **gustavlekstal** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 8:52 pm

Coen wrote:Very... Very cool!!!!!

Tnx Coen. Means alot.
Quick update
Went to town with hs chipping and added stencils from am works. Little tribute to the sig. Ism 6w sig license plate. Oxidrot vallejo cavalry brown 70.982 then matt varnish, dry, hairspray, base tamiya german grey.

Painted rubber! Base xf77
Shadows thinned base + xf1
Highlights base + xf2
Drybrush over shadows panzer aces light rubber 305
wheel rims tamiya german grey. Stencil from am works

Thoughts on how to continue.
1. Finish camo with hairspray method
2. Rust exhaust.
3. Orange filter to make it look desert hot. Grey looks very cold.
4. Oildot fading and create shadows by using light and dark tones
5. Finish chipping and build on the hs teq

Post by **Russ72** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 9:52 pm

Nice work. It took me a couple of looks to work out what was going on with the plastic wrap. I understand now. Look forward to seeing how it comes out.

Post by **gustavlekstal** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 10:09 pm

Russ72 wrote:Nice work. It took me a couple of looks to work out what was going on with the plastic wrap. I understand now. Look forward to seeing how it comes out.

Haha, sorry. No time for writing

Post by **rodrant** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 12:38 am

Just great !

I'm doing a diorama with this Tamiya kit , will present it here in the forum soon as it is almost ready !

Your build is looking great , like a lot the way as you did that chipping with the red primer .

Post by **Deacon** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:06 am

Looking good.

Post by **gustavlekstal** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 1:49 pm

Deacon wrote:Looking good.

rodrant wrote:Just great !

I'm doing a diorama with this Tamiya kit , will present it here in the forum soon as it is almost ready !

Your build is looking great , like a lot the way as you did that chipping with the red primer .

Thank you, gonna look for it and get some inspiration.

Started figure painting today. Its my 3 and 4 figure. My eyes are bleeding.

Reference for my tanned dak little fellows of death

Base

Highlights

Shadows. The photo makes em a little darker than they are. But they are well tanned =). Ive been to Tunisia and for the desert rat soldiers I recommend base + alot of scarlet

Post by **gustavlekstal** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 8:28 pm

Update "bases done" now Im gonna give everthing a black outline. Zuhälter everything

Figures base painted and flesh done

Diorama base done! Maped and cut out on building foam

Given some structure with flower wood stuff from gardenshop

Clay rolled out with water

Happy times brushed with water then leave for dry

Stuff ill be using. Grassrots, sand, granite, large brush, winsor newton sandtexture gel, green line grass and so on.

Sand texture gel (winsor newton) cut grassrots and put sand on hights.

Given a stone wall with swedish granite that im gonna use the diffrent colors to make it look like eyecandy.

Späwagen finished hairspray teq. Gelbbraun stripes airbrushed tamiya 4parts dark yellow 2parts redbrown 1part buff. Ratio 60% thinner and retarder 40% paint at 1 bar.

Glossed up and ready for pinwash

Rust added not finished! Bases done!!!

Plz ask if you want to know more. Alot of work and other engagements makes my time infront of the model valued. I may miss some info cause lack of time and tired little swede.

Post by **gustavlekstal** » Fri Nov 21, 2014 9:56 pm

Update diorama going sand yellow on this one!
Primer ammo black

Base

Shadows base+darker sand color. ultimate shadow english uniform. Why? Cause it rained alot during the tunisia action.

Highligts base+ light light light sand color

Close up

Picked out the stones

Wash it on! And tomorrow i know if its gone pete tong wrong or great. Thanks for me and good night.

Post by **Tiger131** » Fri Nov 21, 2014 10:15 pm

Looks superb love the colour spot on

Post by **gustavlekstal** » Fri Nov 21, 2014 10:39 pm

Tnx mate. Think I'm gonna crap yellow after looking at so many yellow shades.

Post by **rodrant** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 12:25 am

Looking very nice , your diorama base

Post by **JayCub** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 7:27 am

Interesting and enjoyable build log, I like seeing this come together and might have a go at one of these.
Tom

Post by **Nev** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 6:41 pm

Great use of the oils on the base very realistic! Going to be a very nice dio when completed

Post by **gustavlekstal** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:22 pm

rodrant wrote:Looking very nice , your diorama base

thank you for the kind words

JayCub wrote:Interesting and enjoyable build log, I like seeing this come together and might have a go at one of these.
Tom

Thank you! As I said before my time is limited, so if anything is unclear send me pm of just ask on log.

Nev wrote:Great use of the oils on the base very realistic! Going to be a very nice dio when completed

Thanks! It turned out really well. Gonn do a update when the diorama is finished. Not far now

Post by **gustavlekstal** » Tue Nov 25, 2014 12:33 pm

Update

Drybrushed sandcolor + white. Thinned to skimmed milk. Sry for the bad light

Played with vegetation, the roots are grassrots and rots from a plant at the beach. Glued with pva glue mixed with water.

Close up

Close up and started the work on a rusted barrel with gloss yellow

Last steps is tiny bits of pigment here and there. The same as Im gonna use on the späwagen and seal it in with matt varnish. Waiting for balsawood to arrive. Happy modelling!

Post by **Tiger131** » Tue Nov 25, 2014 1:37 pm

looks superb the little bits of grass really work well

Post by **Deacon** » Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:21 pm

That base is just superb mate, I'm going to have to go through your thread over and over to try to replicate what you have done there.

Wonderful.

Post by **gustavlekstal** » Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:50 pm

Deacon wrote:That base is just superb mate, I'm going to have to go through your thread over and over to try to replicate what you have done there.

Wonderful.

tnx mate! I was down on the beach with my minions, collecting more roots and turf today

pm me if you lack information!!!

Post by **gustavlekstal** » Sat Nov 29, 2014 6:11 pm

Diorama done! Happy with it! Just waiting for balsawood.
To bad that the späwagen looks like

The pigments used. Gonna use em on the späwagen too to make to 1

Closeups sealed with matt varnish and then satin on the "lowpoints"

Next update. How I do rust.

Post by **Tiger131** » Sat Nov 29, 2014 6:25 pm

looking real good that barrel looks quality the rust colour is spot on

Post by **gustavlekstal** » Sun Nov 30, 2014 7:56 am

Tiger131 wrote:looking real good that barrel looks quality the rust colour is spot on

Thank you!

Little rust update on how I like to do rust.
Primed then GLOSS yellow

Use 4 diffrent aqrylics

Wash on. Brown for dark rust and yellow for light rust

Pigments mig rust pigments. Focus the dark color on edges

Speckling oilpaint with a stiff brush to give the rust a 3d effect. Flick the first load on papper. Check the sieze of the spots. More paint=bigger spots.

Result

Post by **Tiger131** » Sun Nov 30, 2014 11:45 am

Superb technique on the oil drum..

Post by **Russ72** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:50 pm

Great stuff mate. The rust work looks spot on.

Post by **rodrant** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:15 pm

This Drum is SUPER !!! Great Technique , and thank you for showing this interesting paint job , very, very nice , a great Diorama on the way !

Post by **UKguyInUSA** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:18 pm

Fabulous work so far mate and the oil drum looks the Dogs Danglies!

Post by **Yevgeny** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:44 pm

That rust is amazing!

Post by **gustavlekstal** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:45 am

Thank you all. Warms my cold scandie heart. I forgot some info. Its good to do the aqrylic wet to get some more colors. For more yellow rust thin the aqrylic more. Rest is complete drying and fix the pigments or the oil speckling will no give the 3d effect.

I like ott weathering. Sometimes its go pete tong wrong and sometimes its dog's dangly bits
Once again thank you all for taking your time to watch my work.