World War 2, Allied

Churchill
Churchill Churchill
Two Churchill's from Hasegawa. The Mk.II is straight out of the box and the Mk.I got scratchbuild wading equipment and homemade decals for a Dieppe Raid Churchill.
Churchill Churchill Churchill



A34 Comet
Comet Comet
A34 Comet from Matchbox. No messing around with conversions her. Just a quick build, straight out of the box.



GAZ 67
GAZ-67 GAZ-67
The GAZ-67 from Fort. I think it is offered under a couple of other lables as well. This is a a kit that I built without conversions. I added the base from a Matchbox kit and some figures from Esci. Please give us a Jeep from the same company!

GAZ-67 "Jeep" & ZIS-44 Ambulance
Soviet Soviet
The GAZ-67 is the Fort kit. It is a real beauty. Perhaps not the easiest to build but I didn't use much filler though.
The GAZ-44 ambulance started as a AER GAZ-5 lorry kit. I then scratch built a ambulancebody. Since this was a wood body I used the wartime production truck that also used wood. I experimented with my printer in this conversion and draw the ambulancebody in the computor so that I could write out the tempates on plastic card. I woul then only have to inscribe the planking following the lines printed on the card. It was not a full success. When I tried to print on a 0,75mm card the color ribbon broke, same thing on a 0,5mm card. It worked with a 0.25mm card but then I had to laminate this to a thicker card. To bad, but I heard the newer type of Alpsprinter can handle thick plasticcard.
Here are the templates of the ambulancebody.They look big when you open them, but when I printed them out trough a graphic program they came out in 1/72.
I can't guarantie that they are 100% correct for a ZIS-44 but looks allright to me.
Floorbeams
Floor
Front wall
Rear wall
Right wall
Roof
Left wall


ZIS Fueltrucks
Fueltransport Fueltransport
A couple fueltrucks from AER. The 2 axle one is a ZIS-5BZ and the 3 axle is a BZ-35.
For some reason I like fuel trucks. I have the RAF set from Airfix waiting, and I must try to find Hasegawa´s Japanese fueltruck as well. Then I would need an American fuel truck and then....


ZIS 5 Armoured truck
ZIS5 ZIS5
This is a homebrew. After building the 3 axle BZ-35 and a Zis-44 with wartime fenders I had enough leftovers to start thinking.
I couldnt let all that go to waste, could I?
I had a rear axle with springs, an engine, frontfenders and a complete cargobay.
Wheels from a 1/87 scale truck had the right size so what should I build?
I had seen a armoured "Gun portee" built on a GAZ truck in 1/35 scale and wanted something similar.
I built the chassie frame of plastic strips and the armoured cabin of plasticcard. I added a machinegun from a Esci T-34
ZIS5
ZIS5
While Germany and Soviet still were "friends" the German 37mm AT gun was produced in Soviet and developed into a 45mm gun.
I took the same path and built the 45mm AT gun from a German 37mm gun. The new barrel is from an Airfix Sdkfz 234/4 and I made new rims for the wheels.
ZIS5
ZIS5 ZIS5
ZIS5 ZIS5
ZIS6 in the winter
ZIS6 ZIS6
An AER ZIS-6 truck with a snowplough from an old Roco 1/87 model. I used cat litter, different sizes of ballast and micro balloons for the snow.




T-34/76
Soviet
This is a T-34/76 from Esci painted as a Moscow defender. I rather like this wintercamo that I found on a color profile in a book. I havn't seen a photo of it so perhaps it isn't accurate. No I havn't made decals this time. I handpainted the numbers.




Stockholm May 27, 2002