Russian ZIS-5 Truck & Captured 3.7cm FLAK 43

This build combined two kits from the John Ford collection. The Truck is a 1996 Alan / Dragon kit and the FLAK gun is an CMK. These were both early production and not very well done. We will be discussion the features at the next meeting.

  I did find some pictures of these old trucks which were used for cargo and as shown carrying AA guns. I rusted it out a little.

  Since these kits were not the best quality and or, I did not take sufficient care to fix certain problems, I decided to use a camouflage net to disguise the gun as a pile of hay on the back of the truck.

The groundwork was a combination of celuclay tinted with acrylic dork brown.  I added crushed rubble stone, broke up sticks of balsa wood and added a resin street corner cobblestone. This was all washed with oils.

Vince B 4-17-16