Tuesday 23 May 2017

some new additions...

Oh well,
Almost one year of absence from the blog… anyway it is time to start posting again. Exams are almost done, and summer is coming with a lot of other things… including warm weather so I can undercoat outside… how I miss home with the cellar where I can spray even in winter…
Anyway let’s see what I have photographed in the past few months…
Today we have 28mm, US military… vehicles… a Warlord/Italeri (do you know Calderara di Reno is not too far away from my home?) M-10 Tank destroyer. I would say it is a really good model, I really like the fact that crew was included, both US (you can see them in the picture) and UK (now sitting inside a Rubicon Achilles in my office…

























The next 'treat'  is a Rubicon M5 Late. Again excellent kit. I have also an M8 Scott GMC, an M36 Tank Destroyer and an M8 Armoured Car built and painted, but I had forgot my camera when I was at home for Easter and worked on them… so no pictures!!!! I have also just built an M4A3E8 from Rubicon. I have to say that, overall, I am impressed with the current quality of the Rubicon kits. They started quite bad, I have their Panzer III (one of the first models) and I was not impressed. Then the M10/M36 kit was quite nice and the various iterations of the M5 hull persuaded me. The Sherman is impressive.  Right now I am quite happy with the direction they are heading, also the inclusion of some crew figures in the M4 was nice, even if they are just simple pop ups from the hatches… but let’s be frank. I know we fancy nice crewmen, but in action you just stick your head out, not the whole body. In the Rubicon forum someone boldly stated (I hate bold statements that encompass the whole world), that everyone will replace them with the US Tank crew Rubicon is supposed to release shortly, but I am quite happy with the current ones. It is a wargame tank, and it is supposed to be in action, not just guarding the corners of a square with a relaxing crew (yes, I am thinking of the panzer-idiot, the man that lost a tiger company at Villers Bocage… and it is always represented in 28mm happily sitting on his tank gun…). Anyway enjoy the pictures and do not bother too much about my ramblings…





One of the great things of Rubicon kits the the multitude of different options you can exploit; of course, in perfect modeler fashion, you need to select only one, but certainly there is a good range of possible version for each kit. Both vehicles are painted for North Western Europe 1944-45, my focus is the autumn-winter campaigns  in France, Belgium, and Germany.

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