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Hi All,
And hi, matt77. Best of luck on your ambitious project. The design of the Romfell armored car certainly sets it apart from the other cars of its era. In an age of slab-sided, boxy armored cars, the amount of effort needed to fabricate the curving metalwork for this handsome vehicle would have been too costly in both resources and time, rendering the car impractical. But that doesn't mean that I wouldn't want to have one in my garage, or on my model shelf. For those interested in etymology, the terms Don used for the car's towing gear are somewhat different than what I'm used to. In the sailing world, the common hinge for a sailboat's rudder are made up of two parts, the pintle and gudgeon. The pintle, or pin of the male part is fitted into the hole in the female gudgeon. Gravity usually holds the two parts together. I had not seen the gudgeon of this simple connection referred to as the pintle hook before. I'm always learning something new around here. Best of luck on the Romfell project. Score and fold, Thumb Dog |
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This coloring satisfies me most:
I believe that, an old photo in shades of gray, grainy and aged by time, even the new light green-gray color turns dark, in contrast to the white background of the black balkenkreuz. Thanks for your attention and aid, Matt77
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I know very little about Austro-Hungarian armored vehicles, but that color scheme looks very good to me.
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The "H" frame swings to the ground. The car backs up using the front wheel drive and the frame lifts the rear wheels off the ground. Then the rear wheels are available for power with a belt or chain on the ring attached to the wheel. Note that the lift is drawn on the trailer. About the oddest trailer I've seen. I'm assuming they aren't using the power takeoff to thrash wheat but I haven't a guess beyond that!
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the rear part of the passenger compartment roof is green, not withe sorry, Matt77
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Great Matt77
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Are you going to publish this awesome model?
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Colour scheme looks great.
Remember in scale models the colour should always be a bit lighter compared to the real thing....
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Hi Matt,
nice work you did! For the color: The green was a dark green (e.g. Revell, aqua color, Black Green No.: 36140, matt). For the details: The "H" shaped part at the rear is the so called "Bergstütze". When startig to drive uphill this part was lowered to prevent that the car would slide downhill on start. The left side door (seen from the front) is very different from the right side door. See here my buildreport in an austrian modellers forum: https://www.modellbauseite.at/forum/...2-scratchbuild I did my model in 1:32, based on the original drawings of the Austrian State Archive. Greetings from Vienna, Wiwo |
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Hi Wiwo,
I follow the works on Forum - Modellbauseite and I know your scale model of the Romfell. As for the right side door, I saw your version a long time ago. I've always wondered how it was in such an awkward place above the wheel ... but you'll have certain documentation, I only have pictures of the left side. As for the Bergstütze, I imagined that it had the brake function. This was the development of my hypothesis: Thanks for everything
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