I’m sure many of you are aquatinted with these fun, cartoons little kits.
These are fun little kits and great for decompressing, practicing skills, or if you’re just simply new or recently returned to the hobby.
My biggest regret is that they don’t come with any cartoons figures to go with them. But that’s just me I suppose lol.
For this artsy little project I went with some colors that are more artistic choice (because I liked the artwork) than accurate. A base coverage of Israeli Sand Grey with Green Brown and U.S. Light Green. Odd choices, I know.
During assembly I chose to remove the spare tracks links from the from slope, delete the turret antenna, remove the oddly shaped and unidentifiable thing from the turret roof, and move the antenna base to the back engine deck. There were no problems during construction at all.
The decals went down like paint and disappeared under a single coat of matte, but the one piece rubber band tracks concern me. The tracks on my daughter’s Sherman have begun to disintegrate and are tearing apart. I’ll be looking for some AM tracks soon.
Overall impressions are good. Some parts need a little cleanup, but they fit tightly so glue isn’t required. Just be sure to remove any paint before adding pieces painted separately.
I ended up 3D printing these figures. I think I paid about ten bucks a piece for them. Not sure what you’d use for a German tank but I figured a samurai would work with the Japanese tank and a cowboy for the American one.
That’s really neat! I love the theme. Kinda really like the Samurai.
I must admit I’m surprised they don’t make figures to go with these kits. Box says they’re 1:55 scale. But the little cartoon guys on some of the boxes look really cool and I want some lol.
I surprised there aren’t any cartoony figures too. There are some animal ones out there but they’re scaled more for a standard 1/35th kit.
My figures are from Hero Forge- you can screw with the measurement setting under body to get a more cartoony look. I think they only print in small gaming 32mm scale but I got them to print out the file as a download- they email it to you and then I took it to the library and they printed it out on their 3D printer.
