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Roden Opel 3.6-47 DAK Omnibus Kubel Paint 3/5/22
- Thread starter Iron Mike
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Iron Mike
Master At Arms And Resident Curmudgeon
Funny you should say that, the idea was discussed. 
As I had said, there's not been much time at the bench, but progress has been made. I decided to paint up a load of stowage, knowing I will likely overdo it, but better too much than not enough. Here's what's going on.
I found this cool PE set, yes, I know it's not a German spool, but play along.
The set builds up easily and looks great.
I have acquired a lot of stowage items over the years and have painted up what I thought a crew would want in North Africa.
I started chipping the bus with a sponge and some of the gray base color. There's more to come on that, I'm just getting started. I started fiddling with some suitcases, not happy with the handle yet, pretty crude right now.
I'll mess with it next weekend, I have an idea to try.
Thanks for coming by, there's lots more to come.
As I had said, there's not been much time at the bench, but progress has been made. I decided to paint up a load of stowage, knowing I will likely overdo it, but better too much than not enough. Here's what's going on.
I found this cool PE set, yes, I know it's not a German spool, but play along.
The set builds up easily and looks great.
I have acquired a lot of stowage items over the years and have painted up what I thought a crew would want in North Africa.
I started chipping the bus with a sponge and some of the gray base color. There's more to come on that, I'm just getting started. I started fiddling with some suitcases, not happy with the handle yet, pretty crude right now.
I'll mess with it next weekend, I have an idea to try.
Thanks for coming by, there's lots more to come.
Heavens Eagle
Well-known member
You will figure it out Mike!
sharkman
Master at Arms
The handles look fine, maybe if you have some aluminum tape, put a small piece over the ends??
Iron Mike
Master At Arms And Resident Curmudgeon
Wow, it's been nearly two years of being sidetracked from the bus project! 
Somehow, I've managed to put off the inevitable, but the chickens have come home to roost. I broke out the bus box and in addition to painting the stowage I'd already done, I decided to add another vehicle and some additional fun stuff. If you're signed in, you may enlarge some of the images by clicking on them.
There's more stowage, but I haven't shot photos.
I acquired this Kubelwagen, thinking it might work with the bus scene.
It's a pretty nice kit, comes with everything you see there, except sand. It builds up pretty fast too.
Had a little fun with fire.
At the tip of the tweezers are the drawer pulls Dragon intended the builder to use. I ruined two between the crazy attachment points and the fact their square peg didn't fit their punched hole.
I dug around my spare PE bin and found some suitable replacements.
Moving forward.
Next victim! Start here.
Fold, spindle AND mutilate!
The piece on the left has the drawer guides folded, an interesting task.
Keep going!
The drawers fit nicely and work!
I didn't have enough replacement handles for two per drawer, so I filled the holes and centered the pulls.
As if that wasn't enough punishment, I've had this brass funnel set forever, never had the nerve to try rolling the taper until now. What the hell? No balls, no babies, right?
Rolling the center section was pretty straightforward, although soldering the butt joint was tricky. Next!
Using my PE roller set from The Small Shop, I rolled the basic shape of the cone, then finished rolling it with my fingers and the rubber pad on the back. No progress photos while the shaping was done, bad words were said. Surprisingly, the smallest piece, the tip of the funnel was the easiest to form. Soldering it up was interesting, more bad words were uttered and I placed an order for some low temperature solder in case the situation arises again. In primer!
The Kubel is in primer, more updates later today. There's a rumor I needed to get off my ass, more on that later. Thanks for coming by!
Somehow, I've managed to put off the inevitable, but the chickens have come home to roost. I broke out the bus box and in addition to painting the stowage I'd already done, I decided to add another vehicle and some additional fun stuff. If you're signed in, you may enlarge some of the images by clicking on them.There's more stowage, but I haven't shot photos.
I acquired this Kubelwagen, thinking it might work with the bus scene.
It's a pretty nice kit, comes with everything you see there, except sand. It builds up pretty fast too.
Had a little fun with fire.
At the tip of the tweezers are the drawer pulls Dragon intended the builder to use. I ruined two between the crazy attachment points and the fact their square peg didn't fit their punched hole.
I dug around my spare PE bin and found some suitable replacements.Moving forward.
Next victim! Start here.
Fold, spindle AND mutilate!
The piece on the left has the drawer guides folded, an interesting task.
Keep going!The drawers fit nicely and work!
I didn't have enough replacement handles for two per drawer, so I filled the holes and centered the pulls.
As if that wasn't enough punishment, I've had this brass funnel set forever, never had the nerve to try rolling the taper until now. What the hell? No balls, no babies, right?
Rolling the center section was pretty straightforward, although soldering the butt joint was tricky. Next!
Using my PE roller set from The Small Shop, I rolled the basic shape of the cone, then finished rolling it with my fingers and the rubber pad on the back. No progress photos while the shaping was done, bad words were said. Surprisingly, the smallest piece, the tip of the funnel was the easiest to form. Soldering it up was interesting, more bad words were uttered and I placed an order for some low temperature solder in case the situation arises again. In primer!
The Kubel is in primer, more updates later today. There's a rumor I needed to get off my ass, more on that later. Thanks for coming by!
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Sweet! Good job soldering.
Uh, I don't think it was a rumor Mike!
S'bout time! Great to see you back at it though. The brass is lookin great! Some nice stuff goin on!
Hang in there!
S'bout time! Great to see you back at it though. The brass is lookin great! Some nice stuff goin on!
Hang in there!
Heavens Eagle
Well-known member
Looking good Mike!
Reminds me of a similar project I but on hold a while back. Has a LOT of PE parts on that build.
Reminds me of a similar project I but on hold a while back. Has a LOT of PE parts on that build.