From JasperO: Is this thing on? 1/56 Kfz 19 - 20 points

So the lesson is, despite not having been on vacation for two years until last December, probably don't if you want to participate in the Painting Challenge. You may get time to paint while on holiday, after you recover from the jetlag, but then you get back and have some more jetlag and if you're out of luck, like we were, you pick up some RNA that decides you're a nice host and you spend a week being sick. Net result, it's the last bloody day before the cut, but at least I recovered on time. Anyhoo...

For my please-don't-cut-me post, I present Blitzkrieg Miniatures' Kfz 19 telephone truck. For a far-too-vague scenario Guy is planning, I need to paint a German convoy on the retreat in the Summer of 1944 and I figure this would make a nice addition to a bunch of Opel Blitzes and such. It's a lovely resin cast with only the wheels and the top aerial frame as separate parts.

These vehicles were conversions on top of the Krupp Protze, with a wooden superstructure built on top of the existing chassis. Since construction of the Protze ended in 1941, I figured the vehicle would originally have been finished in German grey. You can in fact find a few photos of a vehicle later in the war that’s been partially overpainted in dark yellow, which makes for a striking pattern that I decided to try and copy. Pretty happy with the result!

From DaveD

Welcome along Jasper - its that time of the challenge for various "my dog ate my homework" posts but hey - your under the wire - and in style too . thats a fine bit of work for the  look of a tired old workhorse of the Third Reich.

And your off and running!