Tuesday 24 March 2015

Italian CV-35 Tankette by Perry Miniatures

This Christmas I got two presents from my gaming pals Thomas and Laffe. I had my suspicions.. they were probably trying to snare me into another period with some cool figures. Been there, fallen for it, got the T-shirt (or at least a whole lot of stuff for my plastics/resin/tin-mountain)
I was right, the small boxes came from Perry Miniatures and contained a tankette and a machine gun with crew. Italians for the Western Desert and in 1/56 scale. Coincidentally the scale those two gentlemen are building British and German Desert War Chain of Command forces for.
Vrom! Vroom! Poor victim. No-one loves him.
I will not fall for the temptation! or something like that was heard from me.
Well, I will not buy a whole new force but we do need more units for our participation game at Gotcon.
Now this kit is quite nice. I have this soft spot for early war crappy AFV:s and this little tankette hits just the right buttons. Tiny, armed with twin machine guns (in the kit there is also an option for a 20mm gun and it also includes two crew-members), with paper-thin armour.  What’s not to like?
Anyway the metal kit assembles easily, it’s just a few pieces.
Paints used:
I undercoated it all with Vallejo Foundation White and a wash of Army Painter Strong Tone ink.
Then a coat of Vallejo 912 Tan Yellow followed by a wash of Army Painter Strong Tone ink, a heavy drybrush of Tan Yellow followed by a lighter one of 837 Pale Sand.
Tracks were Vallejo Panzer Aces 304 Track Primer drybrushed with 863 Gunmetal Grey.
Rubber is Panzer Aces 306 Dark Rubber
Finally a dusting of AK Pigments AK-041 North Africa Dust.

Ready to take a beating J

11 comments:

  1. Nice!

    My 2-pounder is looking forward to meeting it.

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  2. Don't laugh too loud Laffe... I play italians mainly in the desert and that twin MG is a meat-mincer machinegun

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    1. Sp there is hope for my little tank after all :-)

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    2. Actually I think it will do very well. It's low profile, and probably fast. So that's -2 to hit for me already. And I'm essentially throwing tins of corned beef at it.

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    3. and that is why early war is so fun. Crap vs crap.

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    4. Are you calling my corned beef crap? That's fighting talk, you know.

      Oh, right. They are crap, and we are fighting. :-)

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    5. I'm sure your corned beef is excellent, in a biological weapons kind of way.

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    6. Tins of corned beef ...or peas from the 2 pounders, equally shity in any case

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  3. Great weathering-details with the pigment, she looks like a little desert fox in her own right. New projects are like beautiful women. When you're least looking for love, there she is...

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    1. hahahaha
      Well, as it is there are some other Italian things on the painting table just now... they are sort of attractive in their own way :-)

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