![]() Regardless, these little vehicles were used by the German armed forces as a substitute during training and for the development of their armor doctrine. ![]() ![]() I say “may”, since at that time the Germans were prohibited from armored vehicle development by the treaties closing WWI, it is merely a coincidence, I am sure. Incidentally it also has a turret and a gun (I guess the designers were really keen on preparing for all eventualities a farm worker might face), so we may even look at it as an early attempt at tank development by the German industry. I am very enthusiastic about farming equipment, bulldozers and whatnot, so I was really excited when ICM announced they were going to issue a rare, interwar German agricultural mover it represents a very important, albeit little known step in tractor development. ![]() The fact that the effect can be adjusted any time after drying is great. It was also an interesting experience with the AK weathering pencils: they are pretty good at making dust. It spent a couple of exciting days in the proving ground, and then went back to the machine shop to be dismantled. I did not want to go overboard with rust, chips and scratches, as I figured the vehicle as a prototype had no time to actually get “used in”. Some streaking was added, some dust and some mud, and I declared the model done. I painted it using Tamiya acrylics: panzer grey lightened with buff for the whole tank with zenithal highlight and some panel highlighting, used light grey to further highlight edges and smaller details, and then used oils (burned umber, raw umber, green, white) to “deepen” the color with filters. The instructions provide a guide to the Buntfarbenanstrich (colorful) painting scheme ( for more information), but I kept to the plain (and very likely non-historical) panzergray for sentimental reasons – this is how I was used to the vehicle when I played it in World of Tanks. You can build the whole thing before painting there are no sub-assemblies to paint first. ![]()
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