The 1/72 Build Log

It´s done! Yesterday I finished Italeri´s Autoblinda AB 41 which I presented here before and now I want to show you the painting progress as well as the final results. The Painting: The kit included several variants of the vehicle in German and Italian hands. I decided to represent a vehicle used in Tunisia in 1941. As I wanted to try some dessert effects (worn paint etc.) on it the low number of decals came in handy, because they would not ubscure the effects then. I started spraying different mixtures of Vallejo Model Air Dunkelgelb and Model Air White to represent worn paint on the exposed areas and add a little shadow to those that are... well... darker (what shadows commonly are...). I don´t know if this shade is completly correct (I think not 😐), but it looked well in this scale and came close to the original. Wheels and tools were sprayed seperately and then detailed using Vallejo Model Air Brown and Burnt Umber foor the tool handles and Humbrol Tire Black for the Tir...

Got some new Itaeri stuff in a lokal hobby store a while ago... let´s take a look at one of the kits - the Autoblinda AB41. I got it for about 15€ as 1/72 scale luckily isn´t the most expensive ever scale to build in. The vehicle: So, what is an Autoblinda AB41? Wile Italy wasn´t the the most prominent tank building nation in WW2, it had sucess in the early North African campaigns . There they used indigenous armored vehicles like the newly built Autoblinda AB41 mainly for patrol duties. Although the particular vehicle was really complicated and even needed a rear-driver, it proved quite useful in the desert enviroment and later in the Balkans and on the Eastern Front. It had up to 17mm of armor and mounted the turret of the L6/40 light tank with the same Breda 20mm Autocannon. Its 120HP engine propelled the 7.5ton vehicle up to about 70kph. The kit: As Italeri is an Italian company, they released a bunch of interesting Italian vehicles in 1/72. The particular kit was first relea...

Hi fellow readers, as I mentioned in my review of the Mirage Hobby Vickers E, I wanted too build the kit. So I went to work on it  and began assembling the hull. Everything looked fine, but the floor and the side-fenders were a little bent which wasn´t all that nice actually. After a fair bit of filling around the model, everything went well though. Next step was painting the models subassemblies starting with a dark primer coat (Vallejo Grey Primer + Vallejo Model Colour Black) lightened up with white on the areas exposed to the sun/elements. This was intended to get some clolour-modulation within the paint-sceme. Over the top of this prime-layer I painted the camoflage-sceme despicted on the kits boxart which consisted on sand-yellow, dark brown and olive stripes. Althoguh painting went well, the camoflage somewhat denied the modulation to really shine trough in the end. Colours from the Vallejo Model Air and the Ammo of Mig Acrylics were used. Next step was fitti...

Hello and welcome to my first review on this page. This will be an InBoxReview of Mirage Hobby´s 1/72 scale Vickers E Mark B tank. General: I got my kit for about 15€ from Amazon and it is aviable in dedicated modelling stores for about 10-12€ a piece plus shipping. It is one of many Vickers E-based tanks that Mirage Hobby makes in this scale. The kit is plastic and contains no "special" parts (resin, photoetch etc.). The vehicle: The Vickers Mark E was an important tank design of the late 20s and early 30s of the last century. It was developed in the United Kingdom but was never adopted by the British army for combat. When offered for export worldwide, it turned oout to be a major sucess and it was later used worldwide iin form of license-build versions and/or copies. The Mark B was the second original model mounting a single turrert with a 47mm gun and a machinegun in the then new "Duplex"-type mount. The particular vehicle depicted in the kit is a polish ...