28mm Volkswagen Type 82E/87 Beetle source?

[ancientsociety]

Anyone know where I can find the Volkswagen Type 87 Beetle for use with 28mm figures? Or at least a civilian version that can be converted in the same scale?

[lou passejaire]

company B has one, and Rubicon is planning one , next week month year or latter

[DonVoss]

Tamiya has 1/48 model...probably a little too big for 28mm.

Cheers,
Don

[Ultravanillasmurf]

company B has one, and Rubicon is planning one , next week month year or latter

Company B one with Crooked Dice figures.


Rubicon have a Kubelwagen (Type 82) in quality assurance.
http://forum.rubiconmodels.com/index.php?topic=706.msg10228#msg10228

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Tamiya has 1/48 model...probably a little too big for 28mm.

Cheers,
Don

It more depends on what other vehicles you are using (saying that it depends on the figures, Perry will be tiny, Warlord plastics not so much).

[ancientsociety]

It more depends on what other vehicles you are using (saying that it depends on the figures, Perry will be tiny, Warlord plastics not so much).

Anyone know of or have a scale comp? I'm using the new BA DAK plastic figures

[grant]

It was actually the KDF Wagen - strength through joy - until after the war when it was called the Volkswagen. The plant was bombed pretty badly, but the Allies got it running. The rest is history...

I used to be a pretty big VW collector, I've had 9 to date. Nothing terribly old, but I can tell the year of the civilian ones by looking at them post-war within a year or two.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Hi Grant.

I am not an expert so I am willing to accept your comments, however I do wonder if we have a "Robin Reliant" situation here.

To my limited knowledge Volkswagen (the manufacturer) was set up to build one of the many KDF cars - in this case what we now call the Beetle and the subject of this thread.

My suspicion is that in some markets the Beetle was sold/marketed/thought of as "The Volkswagen".

I am willing to be corrected.

I am also sorry if this is derailing the thread.

[Harry von Fleischmann]

Well, I have memories of my uncle driving a blue VW Beetle in the late 60s and it was always referred to as “the volks”. If that helps....

[Ultravanillasmurf]

So back to size.

This is a comparison of the Perry (top) and Warlord  (bottom).


I assume the Perry one is 1/56.

[grant]

Perry tend to be a bit smaller, the Kubelwagen wasn’t very large anyway!

[lou passejaire]

Perry vehicles are real 1/56 ... because Michael Perry ww2 sculpts are not heroic 28mm, just human 28mm...

but some of the old Warlord stuff is a bit liliputian, or oversized  ... ( some Lledo syndrom ? it fit the box ...) 

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Warlord's Jeep is often (unjustly)maligned on scale.

Empress, Warlord, Rubicon.

The Offensive Miniatures Jeep is of comparable 1/56 size.

I have not checked the scale of the Warlord Kubelwagen.

[Keith]

Empress Jeep is 1/50th and Warlord's is definitely 1/56th (same person did the original masters if I'm not mistaken?)

The new Rubicon Beetle looks really nice in the preview they've shown.

[Captain Blood]

New visuals of the Rubicon Beetle prototype are now up on their site - looks excellent 

http://forum.rubiconmodels.com/index.php?topic=796.0