by Timmy C » Wed Sep 02, 2026 11:09 am
Took a little break from the ships to build this little guy - Italeri (ex-ESCI) 1/72 M12 Gun Motor Carriage (155MM self-propelled howitzer).
Built for a buddy who's into the crawly thingies and wanted this from the hobby store. Italeri replaces the original Esci rubber tracks with individual track pieces (singles for the sprockets, longer ones for the flats and and diagonals). The kit does not provide spare tracks, so losing one piece meant either a field repair (original idea) or a "diorama of a diorama" museum piece - decided to merge the two, hence the sign, which is referenced from
here. So I guess it's in the vein of a rough and dirty "freshly driven, demonstrated, and broken down" unit being show to the public, handwritten signage (0.3mm Micron pen) and all.
Replaced the towing and spade cables with twisted wire. Spade cable tackle/pulleys on the spade itself were fashioned from the ends of 1/350 PE cable reels originally destined for some IJN vessel.
Painted entirely with the hairy brush, which you can kinda see from some angles. Tamiya acrylics for the Olive Drab and Gunmetal. Vallejo MC for the various browns. Drybrush for the dry mud on the sides. Wet mud is acrylic soft gel mixed with Tamiya's Linoleum Deck Brown, with occasional dabs of Vallejo's Flat Brown and Brown Sand.
All in all, a fun diversion and excuse to buy Olive Drab and more brown paint. Now back to the floaty things!
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Took a little break from the ships to build this little guy - Italeri (ex-ESCI) 1/72 M12 Gun Motor Carriage (155MM self-propelled howitzer).
Built for a buddy who's into the crawly thingies and wanted this from the hobby store. Italeri replaces the original Esci rubber tracks with individual track pieces (singles for the sprockets, longer ones for the flats and and diagonals). The kit does not provide spare tracks, so losing one piece meant either a field repair (original idea) or a "diorama of a diorama" museum piece - decided to merge the two, hence the sign, which is referenced from [url=https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dsa1955/images/d/dd/M12_Gun_Motor_Carriage.jpg/]here[/url]. So I guess it's in the vein of a rough and dirty "freshly driven, demonstrated, and broken down" unit being show to the public, handwritten signage (0.3mm Micron pen) and all.
Replaced the towing and spade cables with twisted wire. Spade cable tackle/pulleys on the spade itself were fashioned from the ends of 1/350 PE cable reels originally destined for some IJN vessel.
Painted entirely with the hairy brush, which you can kinda see from some angles. Tamiya acrylics for the Olive Drab and Gunmetal. Vallejo MC for the various browns. Drybrush for the dry mud on the sides. Wet mud is acrylic soft gel mixed with Tamiya's Linoleum Deck Brown, with occasional dabs of Vallejo's Flat Brown and Brown Sand.
All in all, a fun diversion and excuse to buy Olive Drab and more brown paint. Now back to the floaty things!