Tamiya's Universal Carrier.

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Tamiya's Universal Carrier.

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This U.C. was started over a year ago back on the MA site. The few build pictures were lost when the site failed. (I can assure you, they weren't very interesting. :roll: )

I was able to find this old picture of the vehicle from the early stages of the "House On The Hill" diorama.
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Primed in Krylon grey and painted in Vellejo.
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Lots of custom sculpted items in and on the carrier.
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Color modulation to go. Given the dark green, I may play around with some Yellow Ochre artist oil for the light spots, but plan to spray darker acrylic for the shadows.
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Hi John,

I remember this from MA. But i can't remember what kit. Was it the Riich?
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I've got the Riich kit in the pile and it looks beautiful. But this is Tamiya's 1979 release. It was a fast build and this diorama is going to enough time as it is.
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Stowage! (Accept the German guy. His uniform was the same color as some stowage; so I sprayed him as well.)

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Nice :)

Though you may wish to change the fire extinguisher colour. Usually brass for that type on British WW2 vehicle.

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Too late now, unfortunately. I would do a lot of damage trying yo change it.

Tarp it is then! :D
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Looking Good. Not a build you see too often.
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An utterly glorious day in Colorado!
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I sat out on the front porch and did some weathering along with a few figures to populate the scene.
(Many thanks to Gary for his "dirty pictures" taken after the Universal Carrier had been driven around in the mud for a few minutes. They were hugely helpful in placing pigments.)
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But we also took a few hours for a little bicycle trip around the neighborhood.
These are two albino deer which were born a year apart from the same mother. The deer around here are remarkably tolerant of human proximity.
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The ingredients to genuine happiness, wellbeing and long life are the following: GI Joe, Legos, Hotwheels, wet sand and a thick growth of algae.
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Edit:
A touch up with yellow ocher oil paint and it's ready for Dullcoat. Still needs antennae, addition alteration in the track mud and we'll be done! Gotta get a figure, though. :? :?:
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Nice progress John! :D
Especially the huge amount of tarps an the other little details really make this come alive :D .

Also good to hear that some people have nice weather, here it has been raining for the last couple of days i.e. spring has been changed to autumn² :lol:



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Looks great, John, specially the weathering of the deers! :D
Seriously, the carrier and the stowage looks great!

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