Has anyone had the opportunity to try their hand at this plastic kit? Be prepared for some fiddly work, as well as stuff that just won’t fit. I waited a long time for someone to produce a kit of this genre - I had to scratchbuild a fire engine when I wanted one. ICM apparently got the Feuerschutzpolizei (FschP) blueprints for this particular rig and just down-scaled everything. The chassis is incredibly detailed with some minute, just-asking-to-be-broken/lost parts which won’t be seen unless you pose the model on a mirror. It seems as if the toolers of the molds never took the time to see if the model would actually go together as planned. For instance, assembling the engine: part A73 doesn’t even make it close to being able to be cemented in place; make damn sure you glue parts A65 correctly; don’t glue part A116 or the dash won’t fit - if you glue parts B6 and B5, the dash won’t fit anyhow…you have to shave a couple mm off the ends. Fortunately, I purchased two kits, cuz I knew the first one would be a learning experience. I’m glad ICM took the plunge and developed this kit, but I think it’s more fiddly than it needs to be, and the parts just don’t fit well at times. I understand MiniArt is coming out with their own version of the venerable LLG…just hoping it’s a bit better than ICM’s. BTW, if you want to replicate the German “polizeigruen”, I found Humbrol’s British Racing Green to be a very good match.
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have one of these too and haven’t started it.
For those of you with a military bent can do one in a dio of the one used by Maj Gen Robert C. Macon as the head of the column of his 83rd Infantry Division heading to the Elbe River in the last days of WW2. The 83rd became known as “Macon’s Rag-Tag Circus”.