It is a kit I bought quite a long time. This half-track, Neu, is now out of production, released from Gunze (former company name of Creos). I’ve heard that Gunze and Dragon have been supplying OEM supplies of each other’s products for a long time. Is this the original Dragon? The attached driver figure is a Dragon taste.
This kit is out of print, so it is pretty valuable. I still find it in many second-hand stores. It is made in Hong Kong, so I suppose it’s OEM of the Dragon.
Plastics are pretty solid and brittle. It is easy to lack without elasticity or stickiness. This is probably not an aging deterioration but an original nature. When I made Gunze’s Lang before, it was like this. It is similar to the plastic of Italeri.
The winding of the connected caterpillar has been completed. It may be slightly slackened, but one track is quite large, so adjustment is difficult.
I assembled a driver’s seat and a passenger seat of Sd.Kfz250 Neu. It looks pretty cramped.
(12-November-2018)
There are quite a lot of interior parts of a small half-track body. There are unexpectedly many seats.
This Sd.Kfz.250 kit is very easy to make because the parts fit well. Should I paint the interior simultaneously and bond the top and bottom afterward? I was unsure how to install the parts between the driver and passenger seats. I thought parts of the top cover, as in a box art painting, were contained, but they were not. If I want to attach it, I need to make it with tissue paper, etc.
Until now, the parts fitted perfectly, but the upper and lower parts interfered with the various points, and the fitting worsened. Perhaps distortion was occurring in the first box building. After verifying, it may be the reason that the back of the radio, the storage box on the side, and the corner of the rifle rack. I adjusted in many areas. Such polyhedral vehicles always have gaps. I can recover smoothly with putty, so I think this half-track will be OK.
The inside of the rear hatch has about ten injection pin marks, so I put it in putty and filed it. One or two marks, I can handle them with only filing. The work is quicker to use putty for so many pin marks.
It is beginning to paint the interior dark yellow.
First of all, I’m painting small parts from inside the half-track.
It was necessary to adjust to tightly fit the upper and underparts because the compartment in the upper part of the seat interferes. It’s pretty troublesome to fill the putty after painting, to reshape and paint again.
In the case of a small vehicle, the three-color camouflage pattern is not so big and is better to see. I think the delicate pattern will increase the sense of precision.
(14-November-2018)
The half-track, Sd.Kfz.250 armored troop vehicles are small, with a capacity of 6 people. Sd.Kfz.250 was produced as a vehicle for reconnaissance units. There are six people in total, including two drivers and four infantries.
Armed with an MG34 7.92 mm machine gun, it can be equipped with two each in front and behind. The maximum speed is 60 km, and the cruising distance is about 300 km. Towing guns and carts were difficult because there was weight compared to engine power.
Initially, it had riveting armor, but Neu changed to welding—about 6,700 Sd.Kfz.250 was produced in the whole series. The majority was deployed with the reconnaissance battalion of the armored division.
Painting a fire extinguisher in red, the model has a good accent.
The compact car body packed with various equipment seems to be not very good in comfort.
I can hardly see it in the back, but I tried painting as much as possible, such as a speed meter panel. I referred to the half-track kit, which has a panel decal.
Although it is an old kit this time, I used the Aber photo-etched parts to the clamp of the OVM.
The marking is the 2nd Armored Division, 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Squadron, 1944, in France. In the manual, there were no instructions for camouflage paint; it was the only color of dark yellow or sandy yellow. In the box package, some three-color camouflage is given. I painted it with my favorite camouflage pattern.
Half truck, Neu was a small car. It would have been very useful for reconnaissance because it is small and easy to use. It’s filled with essence.
(16-November-2018)
