A voyage from a resin and a vacu-formed kit that gets a twist with the arrival of 3d technique in resin and filament to get the exact modell of this unsung Dutch hero. I nicknamed it "Dappere Daffie" (Brave little DAF) because it's the first motorised DAF vehicle that was made, and the smallest armoured car of it's day packing more armour than the rest, in a breathtaking innovational design.
April 23 2024 |
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The 1:72 crude kit assembled with some details. It's 3d resin printed brother is just a little better. The more detailed print is getting there for small scale. 
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October 27 2022 |
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A new print, with a couple of improvement in the main structure, and again all visors, hatches and doors cut out. It's getting a complete museum of M39's by now. Even one in 1:144th scale.... 
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October 15 2022 |
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The front an rear glacis is too steep for the printer to make a smooth plate, so with ca glue an outer plate added. Now an update of the build gallery and on with the next step. 
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September 30 2022 |
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My solid printed hull is a good tracing for 0.5 mm plates. Maybe I can beter cut it from card... But that is a lot of work! Eelke provided me with hull measurements and my filament printer knows a neat trick. It's able to print only the outline, so I get a paperthin hul. And a whole new field opens. It's roughly the exact material thickness in scale. That provides me with the possibility to cut out all the hatches openings and doors, so we can try to figure out how the internal fittings would have been. 
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September 18 2022 |
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And september 18 is a very happy day. Finally meeting my fellow enthousiast in the M39 field, Eelke Warrink, since a very long time in real life. A scoop for me: he brings his 3d printed tower! See his report, on his project to print a complete vehicle in 3D. 
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March 26 2022 |
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I fixed a 3d file of a M39 I found years ago. It turned out to be 1:91 scale(the white one), and I rescaled it to 1:72(the first green one). That is easy. But the 3d artist had made it fixed in one part. I chopped every thing in parts and fixed the front suspention. Now I have a crude M39 in small scale. To get grip on the differences in modells and drawings I printed the hull in 35th. The production vehicles have 2 horns in a round shape, drawing them is not hard, printing them in filament impossible. But there are more plans in 3D.
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December 25 2021 |
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It's getting more complicated. The support wheels of the vacu and the resin are very different in spacing, and the tower of the vacu is way bigger. The hatch is also in reverse on the vavu-formed. The armoured headlights are aligned over the support wheels on one of the original design drawings. But even the prototype has the headlights shifted inwards. Roughly the outside over the middle op the support wheels. The front hatch and periscope on the scale-line are visable wrong here. far So both the vacu and the scale-line are incorrect. That initiated building the 2 of this into 2 versions here. |
December 9 2021 |
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In 2021 I get a build set of M39 and M38 Landsverk. Having an unbuild M39 and the vaacu formed model, I cant resist. A new evaluation of drawings, pictures and available modells spells out: Mayor project, mayor headache. The wheels where the main reason I put my vacu formed Airpress / Schmidt model on the shelf in the 90's. The wheels of MR models have the right tread, and they are send to me for free! Magnificent! My own wheel from the 90's has the wrong thread, the airpress wheel has 6 wheelnuts. The bottom of the vacu next tot the resin makes me wonder about the form of the hull. 
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ca 1985 |
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Somewhere 1980 - 1985, a Vacuformed M39 started the queest for a modell of an M39, evolving into a correct M39. |
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