Airborne01!
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I'm loving this - some superb work here!
Steve
Steve
Autocarretta OM35 2025-09
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Haha, quirky little wagon isn't it? Glad you're enjoying the build. These 3D printed kits offer some challenges, but also opportunities to build 'out of the ordinary' vehicles.
Airborne01!
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Italian design -(mmm)-- quirky it certainly is - elegant? Definitely not!
Steve
Steve
No doubt... perhaps on another project! This one will mostly be covered by cargo.
... so researching the East Africa campaigns, I realized that my cache of WW1 equipment is absolutely appropriate, given that the Italians were hard pressed to put weapons in their colonial soldiers' hands.
Unfortunately, the two Italian figures, driver and officer, are a poor fit, so they will need some 'finessing' to get them convincingly into their seats.
But I do have a few colonials itching for action to accompany the little truck.
Unfortunately, the two Italian figures, driver and officer, are a poor fit, so they will need some 'finessing' to get them convincingly into their seats.
But I do have a few colonials itching for action to accompany the little truck.
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Airborne01!
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All-in-one stew? (Hopefully!) With shed loads of bread and butter of course!
Steve
Steve
I love 3d printed stuff but the waaaaste could make a whole nother car.Parts on the left, supports (waste) on the right. Much less than the Pavesi tractor.
Cleanup of parts when I'm rested... brittle and thin, don't want to break them.
The process is akin to shucking corn and snapping peanut brittle! As a styrene and resin modeler, the snap crackle pop still makes my hair stand on end!
View attachment 163550 I'll keep all the waste in a bag until I'm done, don't want to throw out something by accident!
Yes indeed , I made that same remark on another one of Barley's builds -- craaazy amount of waste material .I love 3d printed stuff but the waaaaste could make a whole nother car.
Thats the way the tiger puller was alot of time just clipping and cleaning. i was getting parts that were powder printed no sprews but they had a nasty coating that had to be washed off then recooked under UV and cleaned again. Dont know what was worse.
...Glad I left some room for extra WW1 holdover goodies in the box: rifles and a twin MG among other things. More on those later once they're painted up...
So here they are, top to bottom:
1. Malfatti wire cutter on a pole. In WW1 trench warfare, it was often mounted on a lance!
2. Canteen. If you see this shape, likely WW1 vintage, wooden canteen! Later replaced by rounder metal ones
3. Villar Perosa 1915 twin 9mm machine gun: some made it to East Africa, many were disassembled to create more conventional single barreled MGs
4. Mannlicher-Carcano M91 T.C. carbine
5. Mannlicher-Carcano M91 carbine with folded bayonet
6. Small shovel
1. Malfatti wire cutter on a pole. In WW1 trench warfare, it was often mounted on a lance!
2. Canteen. If you see this shape, likely WW1 vintage, wooden canteen! Later replaced by rounder metal ones
3. Villar Perosa 1915 twin 9mm machine gun: some made it to East Africa, many were disassembled to create more conventional single barreled MGs
4. Mannlicher-Carcano M91 T.C. carbine
5. Mannlicher-Carcano M91 carbine with folded bayonet
6. Small shovel
Back in the carretta...
Family portrait.
Carro Armato M13/40, Topolino, Autocarretta, Pavesi P4-100
Carro Armato M13/40, Topolino, Autocarretta, Pavesi P4-100
Broke their ankles, and sanded their butts, now they are fitting as well as I could expect.
The colonials look right in their element beside the little truck!
The colonials look right in their element beside the little truck!
Trying out the old 'spray highlight from the top' trick...
..haha, a little crude with a rattlecan, but we'll see!
..haha, a little crude with a rattlecan, but we'll see!
Fez!
I think the Eritrean Colonial troops called it a 'tarbush'... you'll notice that the tassels match their sash, with regimental colours.
You and Peter Lorre!
... So the little truck done... dusted it up today. Figures will come later...
Thanks for following along, see you again in the new year, perhaps he'll find his way into a small, first dio!
Thanks for following along, see you again in the new year, perhaps he'll find his way into a small, first dio!
Thanks Pat. It was fun, and its time at the bench not quite done as it waits for its driver and passenger... can you tell I'm not so quick to finish figures?
