Mk II | stanc'd

Hello friends,

New model finished few weeks ago.

This is a Revell 1/24 kit. I start working on it several years ago, in 2014. The kit is not a simple one, and, especially the final assembly phase, requires experience. I would recommend it more for experienced modellers than for beginners.

About the car, not much to say. The 2^nd generation of Golf were ment to continue the legend and it did it well. It is one of the world-wild “kult” car.

My model has some mods that torns it in an unique model.

• The Scale Production GL kit
• Front seats home casted in resin
• Aoshima 14’ deep rims
• Stance suspension
• Exhaust pipe custom made
• Big front window conversion (Mr. Revell gives us the first generation of frond doors with splitted window's glass)
• Shaved look (door handles, badges and so on…)
• DeLLorto carburettors
• Engine wiring and piping

But is better to see the final result than read my text:

ROMAN | DIESEL

Roman Brasov:  a Romanian truck factory with a long story behind it. All begins in 1921. A little factory called ROMILOC was created. This factory produces railway rolling stock and later engines and automotive. After 1948, when the communist party get the power, the factory is called “Steagul Rosu” (The Red Flag). Step by step the factory specializes in the manufacturing of trucks and utility vehicles.

In 1971 they produces ROMAN trucks. There are two payloads: 7 to 12 ton and 10 to 16 ton.

This trucks war equipped with two kind of engines: SAVIEM (in line 6 cylinders, 5491 cc and 135 hp) and MAN (in line 6 cylinders, 1o349 cc and 215 hp). Lately was provides also more modern engines, mainly MAN which accomplishes the demands of EURO 4 de-pollution norms.

The chassis was made in a wide range of length and several wheel axle configuration (4x2, 4x4 and 6x4).

Until 2000, almost 750,000 trucks had been produced.

The conversion below represents a well-known type of truck in the communist era in Romania. The goal of this kind of truck was to transport both the personnel and some materials and tools. To be noted is that type of truck wasn’t produced in the factory but by each enterprise by on it own, adapted at its needs. Lately, the ROMAN factory put this kind of rear configuration in the serial production.  Dac 7.110 F and  Dac 7.112 F were available for selling.

I made the conversion using an ROMAN DIESEL 1@43rd truck from the German collection of eastern trucks. The cabin and the chassis are not modified (just a little bit weathered) and all rear structure (personnel cabin and cargo / freight transport area).

I let you enjoy the ride.

Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Ausf. E

Hello all,
First post this year. Something unusual for me, but I was amzed when I saw this legend at 1|43rd scale.
I'm talking about the Tiger I , a German heavy tank of WW II deployed from 1942 in Africa and Europe usually in independent heavy tank battalions. Its final designation was Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Ausf. E often shortened to Tiger. The Tiger I gave the Wermacht its first armoured fighting vehicle that mounted the KwK 63 88-mm gun. Only 1,347 were built between August 1942 and August 1944. Production was phased out in favour of the Tiger II.

While the Tiger I has been called an outstanding design for its time,^[6] it was over-engineer, using expensive materials and labour-intensive production methods. The Tiger was prone to certain types of track failures and breakdowns, and was limited in range by its high fuel consumption. It was expensive to maintain, but generally mechanically reliable. It was also difficult to transport, and vulnerable to immobilization when mud, ice and snow froze between its overlapping and interleaved Schachtellaufwerk-pattern road wheels, often jamming them solid. This was a problem on the Eastern Front in the muddy and winter weather conditions. 

Tiger I, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiger_I&oldid=700967560 (last visited Jan. 24, 2016)

The model is a 1|43^rd scale die-cast and plastic ready-made model. It is the first from a new series launched in France and called “Chars de Combat 1/43 de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale”.

The scale is a little bit unusual for military models. But it fits very well with 1|43 trucks and cars. Also, if you put a 1|48^th scale figure near the model, it would not be out of scale!

Those advantages made me buy this model instantly. And more of this, it is a big scale Tiger!

The treatment it gets I mainly a weathering putting in evidence some details that the serial production couldn’t do.