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At the end of WW2 Norway inherited a bunch of German equipment, among them several Panzer IIIs. Three of them (and a Stug III F/8) ended up with the garrison of Bardufoss airfield in northern Norway: https://i.imgur.com/hZoDREL.jpg This and the following photos are from the "Pz III in Norway" group ...

Sorry Vincent, life stuff got in the way :oops: (hopefully writing you back tomorrow!) Here's what I've done in the meantime....base coat and a first layer of chipping: https://i.imgur.com/gz3FD7N.jpg https://i.imgur.com/1sLKE11.jpg I'm trying my luck with getting a more "stressed" whitewash apperan...

Final update before primer: https://i.imgur.com/fSQlIPF.jpg On Bryan's advice I slightly thickened the hull front with 0.5mm sheet styrene. This is an area where Tamiya dropped the ball by mixing features of the early 50+30mm bolted and the later 80mm homogenous plate designs. If you leave off the b...

Happy Birthday Vincent, I hope you're having a wonderful day

Philipp

Looking forward to it

Philipp

Your picture is very helpful Philipp, as most drawings show razor-sharp lines painted on the bodywork but looking closely at the application on the truck it's obvious the lines are anything but. I'll try to incorporate that look when I paint the Cruiser. Now I just have to sort out the stripes some...

Thank you Steve! Long time no see, how are you doing these days? :) Vincent, you can simply post the Youtube link into the message box, the forum software turns it into a link automatically. You can also do this with the link symbol in the text editor: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zKA8JiDHP...

Thank you Gentlemen :) I'm happy with how it turned out, even if my personal obsession with minute details sometimes gets in the way :lol: :lol: :lol: Speaking of which, soon after posting the last few photos I noticed this bar on the lower hull sides: https://i.imgur.com/HWdZdcw.jpg Spare track hol...

You've turned what already was an outstanding build into a completely unique model, fantastic job

Philipp

Hi everyone, With my other projects I had a bit of a motivation issue lately, so started another "quick and easy" Tamyia build to get me through it...as you can imagine, things turned out different :lol: It all started years ago when I found this photo in an old Concord issue: https://i.imgur.com/eT...