Hi Rowan and Jesper!

Yes you are right. Tamiya's instructions say grey as well, not green. My bad...

Jean-Luc

Hi all!

The Storch is almost finished...







There are still some details to do and the final weathering. I will wait until the dio is finished to do it. The "Greif" is also finished apart from some details as well...





Jean-Luc

Thats coming along great cant wait to see the finished dio, good luck.

Hi all!

Sorry for the delay. Are are some pictures of the finished dio. An article about the build will appear in the July issue of Tamiya Magazine France...







Jean-Luc

You've done it again, Jean-Luc, an outstanding Dio

Very, very, very nice. Wingman out.

Hallo Jean-Luc

seeehr beeindruckend!!!!

a pity that I am in Lübeck this weekend ... would have liked to see it in Thionville ....

Where did you get the donkey rider??

best wishes and a lot of fun!

Steffen

Hi all!

Thank you for your kind comments guys...




The figures of the natives are mainly scratchbuild. I used Preiser figures as a base though...



Sorry Steffen, they are not available for sale...

Jean-Luc

P.S. I'm writing this just before leaving for the Thionville expo. I'll try to shoot as many pictures as I can there...

Hi Jean-Luc

maye you could make some resin copies for me

here are some pix from the Lübeck show ... very nice event .. already spent twice of my modelbudget for this month

Lübeck 2008

sorry for being OT ... I am not trying to hijack the tread

best wishes

Steffen

Beautiful stuff Jean Luc - I especially like the way you handled the interior of the storch, some very nice painting! I love the dio too, you must have much more space than I do to store finished models!!

BC

Hi Jean-Luc

The finished dio is just as awesome as I expected!

I do think there's scope to add some more German figures. My gut feeling is that Rommel would usual travel with quite an entourage maintaining a discreet guard, even in supposedly "casual" moments like the one here. I reckon they'd probably have a fit at a couple of locals wandering by unchallenged, without someone keeping a very close eye on the most important German officer in North Africa...

All the best

Rowan

Late to the party as usual, but I thought I'd still comment. The Luftwaffe used RLM 02 and 76 as disruptive squiggles over many patterns, FW 200s, Bf 109Ts, over black on HE 219 nightfighters and bombers.

The idea is to disrupt and blend, not to color-coordinate. When one considers glare and haze, a light color over the sand ( or darker colors ), seen at a distance, the acft would be pretty hard to see.