39M Csaba History is here
This article was first published on November 11, 2011
hello all, santa claus brought me last year the Miniman factory’s Csaba . I had set aside (among dozens of other models waiting to be mounted, like any good self-respecting modeller) and then I started .
This is what we have when opening the box:
The resin is of good quality, without a lot of bubbles, the carrots are sometimes important so be careful off small parts, photoetched allows for the mudguards. no decal sheet in the box so I also bought the bison decals one dedicated to Hungary during WWII.
The building begins with the wheels in two parts, rims and tires: no special problems
The assembly of axles, less obvious because many of excess resin where it should not be but with a dremel you can do it anyway
The body with alignments that are far from being perfectly straight, it will require putty
The figure comes from the brach models range which is beautiful as any of their models elsewhere. WWII hungarian resin figures are not easy to find, you have the bodi, corpus, resination. As the uniform of the Hungarian AFV crews at the outbreak of the war approaches the italian uniform, I will try to convert this figure in a Hungarian one.
Work of the day with the turret and his hatch, tread plates, storage bins with their padlocks.
the body with putty work to fill the gaps.
Following with the installation of the fenders that requires a lot of work. The final assembly before painting, the installation of the antenna which comes without any problem, It lacks now a coat of primer which unifies the different materials and shows the last imperfections. Then comes the three-tone paint.
The figure with the shoulder strap of ammunition removed and replaced with a pair of braces.
After the building, the start of the painting. it is done in three sharped edged tones. I use maskol for it, I apply first the lightest shade (light sand) then masking then green then masking then brown.
Do not forget two important things:
– The rotating parts (wheels) receive only a single color otherwise they are too visible while turning.
– When applying color, always add a small amount of other colors (eg when applying the light sand add a touch of green or brown).
Hello all, we must now place the Bison decals. I chose a decoration of July 1941. The main problem is the protruding rivets because even with Microsol that normally relaxes the decals, it does not work, I must find another solution . Therefore, I used a well-known technique: the microspheres of water filter cartridges. First I removed the rivets, then put the decals, then divided the microspheres in two to have two rivets, and finally I glued and painted them. A bit tedious but didn’t found better.
Hello everyone, finally I finished it. I find it very angry like its tanker, it makes me think of our national panhard 178, the so called « panpan » !
