Tamiya 1/35 M13/40 Carro Commando conversion

[Stikpusher]

Only a crushed claw and bent weapon with no mag stop will show from under the tracks...

[bitbite]

LOL OK! Ok! I get it. Now I'm gonna have nightmares of Ricardo Montalban coming to kill me! Thanks a LOT!

[Stikpusher]

Old and new progress here...
before the circus came to town for my home, I built up a couple of the Miniart crew figures to go with this build. I really do like the Miniart tank crew figure sets. Definitely not more of the same. 1) they cover all those subjectstjhat Dragon ignores in favor of umpteen German sets, 2) the quality of the figures is really quite nice, with some really sharp detail work.



and I got a topcoat of the Giallo Mimetico over the Tamiya Yellow Green that I used as a primer over my work on the top deck



and now Giovanni and Giuseppe await their next progress...

[bitbite]

Sure they look tough now but I would remold the arms to have one holding a white flag and the other with both hands up.

Other than that it looks cool so far!

[Stikpusher]

They are gonna send their Sicilian cousin Vito to Oregon...

[LyleW]

Dangnabbit, bitbite! I just snorted coffee. Yowser, that is hot.

[bitbite]

Yeah, 'cause they're too scared to come here themselves.

Btw, the guy on the right looks a little like Mussolini. Same jaw line and frowny face.

[LyleW]

how does that old saying go? "American sailors like whiskey, British sailors like rum and Italian sailors - they stick to port."

[bitbite]

LOL I'd not heard that one before . . . only the one about Italian tanks having only one forward gear and four reverse.

[lawman56]

Glad to see this here, Stikpusher, however, I have to disagree with the color. Being of Italian ancestry, it's official name is, "please don't shoot us, we're surrendering to unarmed Bedouins" yellow.

And where's Guido at?