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A Famo with a different load.
A 35th scale Famo with on it's sd.Ah.116 a load of jerrycans and 3 slightly converted crew members.
Fellow Twenot member Henk Pijper is notorious for his collection of "almost" ready vehicles. (some 90 projects at the time I'm writing this) It's a problem that many modelers have. They're good at a couple of things, not at all things necessary to get the project they have in their head into a finished one. Twenot challenged us to help him (and others) finish some of them. Famo's always appeal to me and I'm a person to help and to do things for the common good, so I said "yes" a little to fast. The result is nice, but unfortunately I had to give it back to Henk.
The idea was to break up the big flawless Tamiya parts with a worn paint look. What better than an Africa Korps look. The project grew into a logistic role because an empty sd.Ah.116 looks rather naked and I had no tank to put on it. So by a quick calculation 4 high stacked gasoline canisters weigh roughly 20 ton. Ah, I need to tie them down. Ok, a lot of rope to be fixed! I'm not a diorama builder so that would be it, but without crew.... So I ended up changing the standard Tamiya crew members with goggles and a scarf against the dust.
(Last four pictures Copyright Robert Crombeeke / Scale Model Factory)
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