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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: Koppi on February 03, 2025, 01:25:10 PM
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Today there are some impressions of a model from PSC, the Panzer 38 (t).
Please click the link to see more pictures. English translation at the end of the german text.
https://thrifles.blogspot.com/2025/02/plastic-soldier-company-panzer-38-t.html
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Your humour made me chuckle. lol I also sadly put myself in the third category of modeller. Fast build kits with moulded tracks were a great boon to me but now I just buy 3d printed vehicles in the little scales.
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Good write up! Perhaps more of a philosophy article, than a review!
I used to (1980s) enjoy building a plastic model kit, but I don’t think I would ever have put myself in group 1. But more recently I have really enjoyed the PSC kits in 15mm to build up vehicles, guns and tanks really quickly, that look good, and are robust for war gaming.
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It may be worth bearing in mind that Zvezda also produces a kit of this vehicle in 1:100 scale, albeit without the options to build the Panzerjäger variants. The fact that I - who barely qualify for the third category of modelling prowess - managed to build one is surely testament to its simplicity.
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An excellent write up and segregation of modeller types. Having visited your blog I ended up thoroughly (and happily) lost reading your museum visit write ups - really interesting, thank you.
Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain
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Thank you for the write-up, thank you for running a proper blog. It's a strong medium that allows for thoughts longer than 2 seconds and a bit more fruitful than knee-jerk reactions.
As for my knee-jerk reaction to the article.... ;)
Yup, lots of truths in there. Occasionally I like to build and paint a scale model kit scale-model-kit-like, simply because it trains some different 'hobby muscles' than doing wargaming painting and building all the time, so it's more of a balance thing to me, but if wargaming already is your balance to what ever else you do on the regular it makes a lot of sense not wanting to get bogged down in single-link-treads. Many scale modellers won't put up with it either, and it's fairly understandable.
Either way, that PSC kit looks great. As far as I understood it, you can build the three vehicles to represent either of the three variants included in the kit, so you can have a Panzer 38(t) and both kinds of Marder III from it, so even if you skirmish and only need one or two of each tank, it's a handy kit to have.
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Thank you all for your replies. :D
I know my categorisation is simplified, but it helps me to process my self-criticism better. There were times when I was really desperate with my modell building skills. After I've learned that I'm not the only noob on this planet I try more and with the fast assembly kits, I found my way.
Yes Sigur. You can build the three options with this one set.