Re: UVS WW2 WIP: Empress NHS Charity Nurse 19/09/2021

[Rich H]

Nicely painted but sheesh that zimmerit is poor. Did Warlord think German tanks were wood panelled?

Tongue and groove?

[Blackwolf]

Nicely done! I have built and painted the Tiger,have to post it up sometime...

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Nicely painted but sheesh that zimmerit is poor. Did Warlord think German tanks were wood panelled?

Tongue and groove?

Bonus points for the first Tiger II photograph posted with a scumbled "teak" finish.

[carlos marighela]

Shabby chic in a distressed powder blue?

I reckon a tin of walnut stain and some strategic cutting with a craft knife and that Tiger would make a nice roll top desk.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

So here is the Jagdpanzer 38(t).

The story behind this particular paint job is that the vehicle has been undercoated and issued to the troops. Balkenkreuz and vehicle numbers were added before issue. This example had a damaged exhaust silencer repaired with asbestos tape.

[Shahbahraz]

Funnily enough I have been playing with the same models:



and not one, but three Hetzers.



There's more of these two, and another five on my blog.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Shabby chic in a distressed powder blue?

Now that would be a paint job.
^___^

[carlos marighela]

Would love to but well there’s only so many hours in a day and so much scrapbooking to do. 

Nice Hetzers one and all. I reckon Rubicon dropped the ball not using the chassis for a Pzkpfw-35(t)/ LT vz.38. Yes,Warlord do one, I know but Rubicon’s models are far better engineered so if given the choice....it’s always an east one.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Nice Hetzers one and all.

Thanks

I reckon Rubicon dropped the ball not using the chassis for a Pzkpfw-35(t)/ LT vz.38. Yes,Warlord do one, I know but Rubicon’s models are far better engineered so if given the choice....it’s always an east one.

The chassis is different (in a Sherman I-IV Vs Sherman V style). The JPnzr 38(t) is about half a metre wider than the Panzer 38(t).

I too would prefer a Rubicon version, I suspect that the existence of the Warlord version put them off. The Rubicon Sherman V project shows they are willing to re-visit projects where there is an existing Warlord kit.

Warlord's Sherman V is poor (nowhere near as good as the Warlord/Italeri Sherman I), I have not heard anything bad about the Panzer 38(t) - I have the Zug box, I have not built one yet, so I have no opinion.

[carlos marighela]

Fair enough about the Hetzer chassis.

Good to know about the Warlord Pz 38. Some of their kits are indeed quite decent, others are fiddly and most are over or , at times, poorly engineered vis a vis  Rubicon equivalents. I still have a Warlord Stuart I bought ages ago that's still incomplete after a year or so.

Funny thing is that in the time I started and gave up on the Stuart, I knocked off another Tamiya Matilda which has a vastly higher part count, including link and length tracks, required minor modification and had after-market, multi-media, parts added. Good engineering is the key. Then again it's always been the case that building a Tamiya kit is a lot less painful than building an Italeri one.

[Rich H]

The problems with the Warlord Italieri kits is many of them are upscaled 1/72 kits so have 'issues' as a result.  Not least being their tiny crewmen!  Some are properly re-tooled and better than others but their chosen system for tracks is terrible in most cases.

I've jsut built 3 Cromwell/Centaurs adn a Sherman V.  Generally the hulls are good, detail is sharp and 'adequate' but the moulded on tools and tow cables leave a lot to be desired. 

Tracks, in both cases, suck.  The track joins are  front and rear - exactly where you can see them - and the curvature means less detail on these areas too.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Some models fall together, they just seem to flow.

Others, not so (the KV-1/2 and IS-2 being cases in point).

[Ballardian]

Nice Jagdpanzer 38t, I'd imagine that now Rubicon have hit most of the big mid-late war stuff (Pz's III, IV, Panther, Tiger, Tiger II) they'll be looking at early war, so I guess another Pz 38t isn't impossible. The WG kit isn't bad at all, thought the rivets are somewhat over-sized.

[Shahbahraz]

Is it too much to ask for plastic PzI, PzII and early PzIII ?

[Ballardian]

I believe the Rubicon Pz III range starts with an Ausf E, makes sense as the earlier models had tiny production runs, while the E was the first produced in quantity and encompasses vehicles armed with both the 37mm and (later retro-fitted with) the L42 50mm. They haven't been released quite yet, but I believe their release is immanent.