Krupp Protze 1 ton (6x4)Kfz.69 towing truck with 3.7cm Pak.

[GaryG64]

I choose to just put the frustration of the Focke Wulf away for a bit and build a Tamiya.

 

[Edbert]

Subscribed and looking forward to more pics!

 

[GaryG64]

Subscribed and looking forward to more pics!

I hope to not to disappoint.

 

[BarleyBop]

I'm looking forward to it too! Got one in the stash for a rainy day...

 

[GaryG64]

I'm looking forward to it too! Got one in the stash for a rainy day...

It's quite an odd-looking vehicle. Kind of looks like an Opel

 

[BarleyBop]

odd-looking

Haha, but check out the driver visibility crossing rough ground!

 

[GaryG64]

With this kit being nearly 50 years old, there is some flash and pin marks. The flash isn't horrible but there are parts where it is present. There was one part that needed some filler where the two parts meet, again not horrible and was fixable with so Vallejo putty and a blade.

 

[GaryG64]

I decided that I would paint this in Black Green RLM70. (It seems to be close to the German color.)
I am not too concerned with the accuracy of this kit, but I do want it to look good, of course.

 

[TimM63]

I decided that I would paint this in Black Green RLM70. (It seems to be close to the German color.)
I am not too concerned with the accuracy of this kit, but I do want it to look good, of course.

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That's a great color.

 

[Jakko]

Black Green RLM70. (It seems to be close to the German color.)

In that it's a dark colour, yes. Other than that … no German vehicles until early 1943 were dark grey, not green, and aside from that, RLM 70 is an aviation colour and so would be very unlikely to be used on an Army vehicle. (RLM = Reichsluftfahrtministerium, "State Ministry of Aviation".)

 

[locomotive]

In later years of a struggling and resource starved regime, I doubt anything was really set in stone.
I believe there's always a prototype for everything.

 

[GaryG64]

In that it's a dark colour, yes. Other than that … no German vehicles until early 1943 were dark grey, not green, and aside from that, RLM 70 is an aviation colour and so would be very unlikely to be used on an Army vehicle. (RLM = Reichsluftfahrtministerium, "State Ministry of Aviation".)

Thanks, but this is therapy for me with the war against my demons in battle each day.

 

[GaryG64]

Assembly is going together pretty well. I just staged the parts together to see what the vehicle might look like.

 

[BarleyBop]

what the vehicle might look like

Whoa, they's ridin' in style ! Those aren't bench seats, they's chesterfields!

I only say that (and @Jakko ) can give us the proper reference, I read somewhere that I think it was in early trucks, seats were literally formed metal, and soldiers referred to them with German word for bucket, hence the now popularized but infinitely more comfortable 'bucket seat'.

 

[GaryG64]

Whoa, they's ridin' in style ! Those aren't bench seats, they's chesterfields!

I only say that (and @Jakko ) can give us the proper reference, I read somewhere that I think it was in early trucks, seats were literally formed metal, and soldiers referred to them with German word for bucket, hence the now popularized but infinitely more comfortable 'bucket seat'.

Those are what come in the kit.

 

[BarleyBop]

Those are what come in the kit

Yes, I think the lighting and wash just made them look extra comfy in the photos!
Keep on, keep on, wanna see what comes next!
Cheers!

 

[GaryG64]

Yes, I think the lighting and wash just made them look extra comfy in the photos!
Keep on, keep on, wanna see what comes next!
Cheers!

Thank you! I'm actually heading upstairs to continue.

 

[BarleyBop]

heading upstairs

Haha, that's my line!
My bench is in an otherwise cramped corner on the second floor. Even the dog avoids it because he prefers to stretch out on the couch in the TV room!

 

[GaryG64]

Haha, that's my line!
My bench is in an otherwise cramped corner on the second floor. Even the dog avoids it because he prefers to stretch out on the couch in the TV room!

Mine will curl up right behind my chair, cramping me up against my bench... Brutus MOVE!

 

[GaryG64]

Getting those comfy seats a worn look.

 

[Jakko]

I read somewhere that I think it was in early trucks, seats were literally formed metal, and soldiers referred to them with German word for bucket

Kübel in German means "a fairly tall tub or bucket, especially one with two handles on the sides (rather than a pail)" (per English Wiktionary) though it's apparently a regional word, and in historical context also means "in prison cells, a barrel used instead of a toilet" (per German Wiktionary).

Kübelwagen was originally a nickname for early military motorcars, which (according to Werner Oswald in Kraftfahrzeuge und Panzer der Reichswehr, Wehrmacht und Bundeswehr ab 1900, "Motor Vehicles and Tanks of the Reichswehr, Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr from 1900 onward") consisted of commercial chassis were fitted with a platform onto which seats and other equipment were set; because these vehicles were open-topped and had no doors, the seats were fashioned with high sides and backs (for the time) so that soldiers would not fall out of them.

To modern eyes, those don't look particularly high, but most 1920s–30s car seats were much simpler and had no sides at all.

After their shape, those seats became known as Kübel (note that the plural is the same as the singular, so not *Kübels) and from there, the nickname was transferred to the vehicles themselves — Wagen means "car", or rather, "wheeled vehicle" in almost the widest sense. It stuck even when the vehicles in question no longer had a need for such seats.

 

[BarleyBop]

Kübel

Awesome! You never fail to deliver!

 

[GaryG64]

So, I have this teeny tiny little spider who comes and visits me on my bench.
Today, I find a tiny web on my kit. Lol.

 

[GaryG64]

Kübel in German means "a fairly tall tub or bucket, especially one with two handles on the sides (rather than a pail)" (per English Wiktionary) though it's apparently a regional word, and in historical context also means "in prison cells, a barrel used instead of a toilet" (per German Wiktionary).

Kübelwagen was originally a nickname for early military motorcars, which (according to Werner Oswald in Kraftfahrzeuge und Panzer der Reichswehr, Wehrmacht und Bundeswehr ab 1900, "Motor Vehicles and Tanks of the Reichswehr, Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr from 1900 onward") consisted of commercial chassis were fitted with a platform onto which seats and other equipment were set; because these vehicles were open-topped and had no doors, the seats were fashioned with high sides and backs (for the time) so that soldiers would not fall out of them.

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To modern eyes, those don't look particularly high, but most 1920s–30s car seats were much simpler and had no sides at all.

After their shape, those seats became known as Kübel (note that the plural is the same as the singular, so not *Kübels) and from there, the nickname was transferred to the vehicles themselves — Wagen means "car", or rather, "wheeled vehicle" in almost the widest sense. It stuck even when the vehicles in question no longer had a need for such seats.

Thanks, brother. Fascinating article.

 

[Pantherman]

So, I have this teeny tiny little spider who comes and visits me on my bench.
Today, I find a tiny web on my kit. Lol.

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Wow, you are even getting your trained spider to help with the weathering.......Pantherman

 

[GaryG64]

Working on the chassis.
I did some weathering on the exhaust.

 

[Pantherman]

Working on the chassis.
I did some weathering on the exhaust.

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Loving the weathering, especially the seats. Pantherman

 

[GaryG64]

Loving the weathering, especially the seats. Pantherman

Thank you, PM

 

[GaryG64]

Slowly but surely getting there. Still have several parts to add and weather.

 

[BarleyBop]

Nice! clean build... haven't lost any of the fine details.
Really does have a distinctive nose!
Will you be using both spares?