EBay determines this price through a machine-learned model of the product's sale prices within the last 90 days. Opel Blitz Armoured Cab Detail Set for MAC / 1:72 / NH Detail / Elementy fototrawione / Dodatki /. 1/72 Opel Blitz Armoured Cab Detail Set MAC, NH Detail, 72018.
By Stephen Brezinski, Maine USA (original article formerly on the miniaturezone.co.uk website) The vehicle is a 1/72 ESCI Opel Blitz truck, painted in dunkelgelb with a green camoflage pattern. This vehicle was one of the most common German 3-ton trucks, produced in either a 4x4 or 4x2 version. Besides fuel and cargo versions, the van variant was common and used for ambulances, command,and communications vehicles.
The van could even be seen on the tracked Maultier (Mule) version of the truck. I opened up the rear doors and added four bunks using the stretchers from two ESCI SdKfz 251 ambulance kits, a desk/operating table, seat, and various boxes and bedrools. Windows were also opened up and clear sheet styrene glued in with Kristal Clear. Inside I also scribed in the door panels to match those on the outside walls of the van.
Wood steps were created from a model RR kit. The markings and license plates are decals from the kit, set down with Solveset. Clear windows and windshield was also cut and added to the cab. There were fit problems with the cab which required careful fit and putty. Also added to the cab was a rearview mirror, wipers, and width indicators on the fenders. The grass was created with model RR flocking.
The figures sitting, table, and chairs are from Preiser's 1/72 tank repair personnel (in hard, polystyrene plastic) Most all the paint used were acrylics, though the flesh tones are enamel which can be blended a bit with a brush dampened with thinner. Overall the kit can be challenging but looks great when the fit is corrected. The figures are superb and I hope more are released. © Stephen Brezinski, Maine USA. Quick update on the Sci-Fi / Post-Apoc front. A new painted 'Control Trooper' sporting a riot helmet.
He's accompanied by a Stryker from the 'World Order' policing forces. I've seen a lot of 15mm Sci-Fi figures on various blogs that have really inspired me into getting into the genre. Unfortunately 15mm metals are out (maybe at least until I retire that is) as I've enough 1:72 plastic to sink a battleship. Besides which, my first love has always been plastic 20mm / 1:72 scale so I decided to try my hand at converting some figures from various modern-day sets to see how they turned out.
These are some of the first attempts and I'm quite pleased how they're coming along. I've cut off the ends of the gun barrels - I think it makes them look like fairly reasonable future 'blast' weapons. There was a time when I thought my Airfix sand-coloured plastic figures really looked the business with the exposed parts of the skin painted with good old Humbrol Matt Flesh - and of course to a 10 year-old kid they did.
And that kid still lives in my head, and even though various decades have passed since then, and even if I spend maybe a little more time painting my figures nowadays, I do still try and keep things as simple as possible, Drybrush & Wash Technique The figures below were all painted using a simple technique that brings out the detail well and allows you to finish off a large number of figures in a relatively short time. I'll cover the preparation, basing and undercoating in a separate post in more detail, but the painting technique itself is straightforward and simple as follows. Paint a large batch of figures in the base uniform colour. Once dry, give them a very heavy drybrush of a much lighter colour to highlight the raised uniform areas, straps, buckles, ru. A 1/72 scale 'what if' scenario on the outskirts of Arnhem WW2.
Bolt Action rulset, umpired by my mate Carlos and gamed yesterday afternoon with the fellas from the. The scenario is basically two farms bordering the central road at the end of the table where an isolated group of British paras were tasked with stopping German reinforcements trying to get to Arnhem.
Turned out to be quite a balanced game, the Germans managed (but only just) to get some units through, but at a fairly heavy cost with a great many casualties, while the British suffered very few but were unable to stop the reinforcements from getting through. Working at present on a bunch of generic modern-day Police / SWAT/ Paramilitary Law Enforcement types for modern / post-apoc game scenarios These are a mix of figures from various brands, Esci US 1990s Infantry, Zvezda US Infantry, Revell US & German Modern Infantry, an Esci / Italeri US vietnam war figure, Orion Modern Russian with a headswap, even a couple of Matchbox 1980s British Paras have snook in there. The guys with the cops' typical peaked caps got their heads from the Revell Kriegsmarine WWII German Navy set. The heads were added as per.
The armoured vehicles are repainted Matchbox Hot-Wheels cars. The cars were given new wheels taken off some old Russian trucks. More pictures will follow as work progresses on these guys. I started these conversions more than a year ago, and got distracted (don't we all.), but finally they're finished.at last. I changed the heads on these PSC figures for heads from Italeri and Esci Russians. Not really all that necessary if you're going to use just the PSC figures in squads on their own but as I wanted to mix them with my Esci / Italeri / Revell / Pegasus Russians, their heads were oversized compared to the other brands. Nicely sculpted figures in a hard-softish GW type styrene plastic that's easy to trim, file and glue.
Sent from my mobile #PSC, #Russian Infantry. I've had these toy trees in a box since last year, just before Christmas, when I got them in a department store where they were selling shiny plastic plants and trees for Nativity scenes. As I'd been working on some other scenery stuff over the weekend, and after seeing that the shops are stocking up again on Nativity scene stuff, I remembered I had these hidden away and so I dug them out of their box. The trunks and branch structure are basically really good. The only things that needed changing are the radioactive green shiny plastic leaves. I gave the trunks a drybrush and added some dark foam foliage. They just need the bases flocking and they'll be finished.
A few years back I saw an article on Paul's excellent on using a cut-down Airfix 88mm Flak to make a 105mm US howitzer I needed a couple of these for my WWII US forces and inspired by Paul's original idea, I decided to put a couple of old Airfix 88s I had in the stash to good use. The barrel of the 88 has been cut down and the shield comes partially from an old Airfix 6 pounder AT gun and the rest was made using some cut-down clear plastic sheeting. The axle and wheels are from a trailer that comes as an accessory with a die-cast Altaya M16 Half-Track. The trail legs are flat plastic cocktail sticks.
Yep, it's a crude 'representation' and it would probably raise a lot of eyebrows at an IPMS meeting, but I think once it's painted and on the table it maybe won't look too out of place. I'll try and get this painted up and will post a couple of shots soon.
Type. Scale(s) 1/72 Manufacturer Nation(s) Germany (West Germany, 1945-1990) Conflict(s) Status Announced Released 2008, April Description Photo-etch set. Detail set for kit by (recommended by NH Detail): MAC. The Flak 38 entered service in late 1940 and was the most common light anti-aircraft cannon used by the German army, navy and air force. With a rate of fire of 450 rounds per minute, this was a formidable anti-aircraft or anti-personnel weapon.
The Sonderanhanger 51 trailer was used to tow the Flak 38. Technical data: - dimensions - 60 x 30 mm - number of details - up to 40 - include extra details for Sonderanhanger 51.