Thursday, February 13, 2020

Kubelwagen Ambulance by Dave Blankenship

Dave mated the Tamiya Kubelwagen with the Dragon ambulance conversion  (basically a stretcher, support for it, and several figures) to model this Afrika Korps vignette set in the latter part of the campaign.  The Kubelwagen was painted with a custom mix of Tamiya acrylics and weathered with oil filters and pigments. The chipping was done with Vallejo acrylics and the vehicle was given a final dusting of Tamiya buff.


The head of the walking wounded figure was replaced with a Warrior's resin sculpt. The base is a modified Monroe Perdue casting and was painted with several shades of Tamiya browns and tans, washed with oils, and lightly dry-brushed to complete.



All-in-all, a fairly quick and enjoyable build. It's not uncommon these days for models to have a parts count in excess of 1,000 pieces, so it's a treat to tackle something like this little guy.  Tamiya manages to keep the number of parts down without much sacrifice in detail and are so well engineered you can often build one without having to use any filler putty.





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