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If it were me I'd go for another approach though. Ah, instead going for a 1960s setting where the East was absorbed by the West, or WWII never ended. So similar figures, and things like BRDMs, but with Knights crosses on the sides. Or you could go the other way and stick a Hammer and Sickel on the side of a Leopard. I'm testing out turning those same Under Fire Miniatures East Germans into Cold War Nazi figures right now actually, which unsurprisingly doesn't take too much work.
Found this on a TW2000 page. So I guess when I get back to this project, I will need to make a Beilin Brigade VW Beetle.
Cute but what you really want is an East German Trabbie Kubel. The Germans have a passion for converting marginal performance front wheel drive vehicles into jeep substitutes
Hmm. Never saw one of those during my all-expense paid 3-year vacation to the BRD. Then again, I didn't get up to Berlin while there. All we had like that were puke-green Chrysler K-Cars...
My folks picked up two of them when we first stationed in Ramstine in 86. They were always breaking down and were a lovely shade of burnt orange.
Well, you know what the ads said. ‘If you can find a better car, buy it!’ Obviously your parents failed to heed their advice. If it makes you feel any better, the absolute apogee of US car design, at least in my experience, was probably the Chevy Corsa. I had the pleasure of being in one in the middle of nowhere in Brazil.* This particular Chevy, albeit Brazilian manufactured, suffered a series of faults and its final meltdown was preceded by all of the electric windows failing….just as we were hit by a tropical storm of Biblical proportions. I’d say about 2 inches of rain fell in about twenty minutes, most of which seemed to fall inside the car. After that the car lost all interest in automative function. Oh well, by that time it had failed as a tent, let alone a car. Of course I’ve never driven an Edsel or a Pinto.* Almost literally, about 100 km east of the Araguaia River.There’s a 1/43 diecast Trabbie Kubel out there if you are interested.