Plastic Soldier Company.

[Harry Faversham]

The last boxes from our move (only taken two years!) to the seaside have made it from the loft to the Emporium. Two fruit boxes of 1:72 of WW2 vehicles among them, some painted in the early 70s, which shows. So I've tickled up some of the early German armour only to discover I've nobody to fight 'em, that's where yew shower, hopefully, come in!
It's not much after said 70s that I last built a tank. I've been looking at a box of 1:72 PSC Cruiser tanks, three in a box, with crewmen but no decals. Are they any good and where would I glean early war transfers for them please?
I'm cogitating on a quick block paint, wash and weather so they fit in with the rest of the crap tanks in my collection...
which looked pretty good nearly 50 years ago!

[fred]

I like the PSC kits - I have a their 15mm A9/A10 box for the desert - it comes with an incredible number of build options to cover the various variants. They are much easier / quicker builds than old airfix kits. I’ve not tried their 20mm ones but I guess they are very similar to the 15mm ones.

You could try Minibits for decals https://www.minibits.net/i-94-decals/british/

[Ultravanillasmurf]

I have a number of the PSC kits, though I have only finished a 15mm Cromwell.


A lot less complicated than an Airfix kit.

I got my decals from PSC at Colours 2019. Not sure if they have some suitable for your Cruisers.

[bluewillow]

Black lion decals would be your best bet I think

Cheers
Matt

[NTM]

I have a number of 15mm PSC kits and like them a lot but some are not without issues. For example the desert sand shields included in the Cruiser kit are not correct being the same both sides when one was actually cut down. Those for the version used in France are correct to my knowledge though. From feedback on the web some of the 1/72 kits are a bit overscale but not sure if that is the case here.

Minibits are usually my first port of call for decals but due to the way they're packaged you will probably have to get multiple packs for your three tanks and have a fair bit left over.

[Harry Faversham]

Thanks chaps, your advice is most appreciated.

 

[fastolfrus]

If you cannot find the markings commercially why not put out a plea on here for spare ones - most chaps will probably have some knocking about if they've had kits with multiple options over the years?

I'm sure the collective hive mind would help out - most LAF members that I've met are basically reasonable types.

[Truscott Trotter]

By Early War are you looking for BEF in France or Desert stuff.
BEF I have searched for and only really found two sources.
Black Lion
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/black-lion-decals-72055-bef-in-france-1940--1030171
Millicast
http://www.milicast.com/shop/product.php?productid=1213&cat=85&bestseller=Y
you can also go direct to Aleran

[Harry Faversham]

Thanks T, just ordered the early war decals from Black Lion.

 

[Harry Faversham]

Released by Almark, and if memory serves sculpted by Charles Stadden for a battleboard game I can't remember the name of? The figures had a prong on the bottom of their stand which fitted in holes all over the battleboard, you had a spring loaded popgun that traversed beneath the board which blasted the little man into orbit to splashdown under the sideboard, that's if you'd guesstimated yer ranges correctly...

[Jeffers]

I had loads of those! Can’t remember who, but I bought bags of them really cheap from a trade stand at Colours in 88/89. No idea what happened to them. Probably gave them away.

[zippyfusenet]

Tommies look a bit dusty, Harry. Run them under a warm tap, maybe give them a light scrub with a worn-out old toothbrush.

[Harry Faversham]

Tommies look a bit dusty, Harry. Run them under a warm tap, maybe give them a light scrub with a worn-out old toothbrush.

Silence in the ranks there, those Tommies are straight from the front line, every man an Emperor!
Then again, the military always love a fashion parade!

[zippyfusenet]

Well done, that man!

[Harry Faversham]

Thank you Sir, permission to carry on?