Welcome to my first vBench.
I will be building Tamiya's Field Kitchen straight from the box. I wanted a project that I could build fairly quickly and experiment painting techniques with.
In the box are two sprues of dark grey plastic, one each for the kitchen and the limber and two sprues of white plastic for the horses and figure. Also included is a rectangle of flexible plastic to make the harnesses.
I gathered as many reference photos as I could find on the Internet to check the accuracy of this kit. Although it dates from the late 1970's it is a very accurate representation of a German World War 2 field kitchen & with a few additions it will build into a very realistic model. From the reference photos I found, it is obvious that there were several different types of field kitchen. James Tainton found a field kitchen identical to the kit in a museum in Germany. Photo is 3rd from the bottom of the post (Thanks James)
http://www.planetarmor.com/forums/sh...5&postcount=38
Construction starts with the chassis of the kitchen. The parts here, particularly the leaf springs and axle required quite a bit of cleaning up due to the moulds being misaligned. (Click on the photos to see a larger image.)
Moving on to the body of the kitchen the parts fit together very well due to various locating pins. I drilled out the holes on the panel on the rear of the kitchen.
Dry test fit of parts. The gap at the front of the kitchen is not as large when glued, but it will need a little filling.
The wheels took a long time to clean up as there is a mould seam on both sides of each spoke and on the inside of the wheel rim.
I will try and update my vBench at least once a week. Thanks for looking.
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