Tamiya SdKfz 222 21st Pz Div Afrika Korps

Aside from the mass of unstarted & started kits, I used to buy "built" kits for spares. In the rare times the kits were well built, but the paint job was crap, I would take time to do the best paint job I could at the time. On some occasions I even surprised myself




This kit was bought at an APMA meet, and after stripping the paint down I backdated the model using the visors from the Tamiya SdKfz 223 Armoured Car. Additional I used the gun cariage from a Tamiya 250/9 half track. There aren't any photos previous to this, as there were no digital cameras when I started this kit 15 years ago.





The photo above shows the kit with preshading. you can still see some of the sand coloured paint still in place.


The car was air brushed Tamiya Desert Sand and them stippled with Tamiya Panzer Grey to give the worn paint look.