Another wargaming commission job, did a 251 Battalion for use with Rapid Fire gaming rules and this is the command track. Also attached a pic of the rest of the commission for those of you that havent seen it before …
Anyway, the 251/3 is a pretty straightforward conversion of a std 251/1 by adding the radio set from the Italeri 250/3. Nothing extra in the way of details so its a pretty basic job. Camo and weathering is GW acrylics over Humbrol 83 base. The only concession to table use was to replace the width indicators with brass rod, a bit overscale but cant be helped.
This is outstanding… It may be becoming a cliched line around here, but again, this could easily be mistaken for a build in a larger scale. Hard to believe it’s 1/72nd. [bow]
This is just stunning–if I weren’t fairly familiar with 1/72 kits myself I would have mistaken it for a larger scale. The paint and the weathering are just simply fabulous!!!
I think that it ges to show the potential quality possible in 1/72 today–I wish more peole would take this scale seriously, as it can be just as impressive as 1/35.
Ditto to the above…I think a lot of it has to do with the quality of 72nd kits…some of them are more detailed than the “old generation” of Tamiya 35th scale kits from 30 years ago…I think Dragon has particularly opened up the scale to new possibilities…I built a 72nd DML Sherman about a year ago and was simply blown away by the level of detail and attention the kit received…
Thnx for the comments guys, much appreciated. I’ll probably post up the rest of the units in sections when I get the chance as I’ve already posted the TigerIIs.
As for the kit quality, for me Dragon have revoluntionised the 72nd market I think. You can make em basic (as here for gaming) or chuck as much time and PE/resin bits at them as you like to make into quality display vehicles. The Cromwell stuff (and Milicast too) generally have a lot less parts as they are aimed more squarely at gamers but I like to think that with a decent finish its still often hard to tell …
And as for “are they an histoprical unit” - only very loosely. They’re for an Ardennes campaign and so are vaguely intended as a Peiper Ardennes force, hence the high numbering of the SPWs repesenting vehicles from the 9th Armd Inf and 10th Heavy companies.
