Thanks gents (and our Rubicon hosts
) Wasn't meaning to be precious or defensive - just pointing out that I come at this from a slightly less than stringent perspective when it comes to pinpoint historical accuracy. But please be assured I greatly admire and respect you guys who know your AFVs inside out. It's just that I prioritise figures and models that look good over absolute historical truth.
@Marcin: No offense taken, not at all
I'm a historian too, by the way (well, I've got a history degree and an awful lot of history books, which is sort of being a historian... ) I get very cross about glaring historical inaccuracy in the movies and on TV. Interestingly, I've never felt quite so bad about taking a few modest liberties when it comes to putting things on the wargames table. Horses for courses I guess...
But thanks for your forbearance / understanding of my occasional heretic ways
I look forward to building some more Rubicon models and sharing them here.
Meanwhile, being new to this whole 1/56 AFV modelling world, I did complete another model in between my Rubicon Crusader and my Rubicon Tiger. And that was this resin Blitzkrieg Models Sdkfz231 - this one's FULL of historical inaccuracies (no headlamps, grab rails, width indicators, etc) but you can blame Blitzkrieg for that, not me... I've done my best with it. Hope it's okay to share a couple of pics here, even though it's not a Rubicon product
I'm sure there'll be a Rubicon kit of this in due course, so it will be interesting to compare and contrast...