Digital Sculpts - German Officer in Heer Uniform 200730

[ultravanillasmurf]

They look good.

[batesmotel34]

For the M-36 (and probably for M-10 and achilles) is witht he loader to the left of the gun and the gunner and commander to the right with the gunner to the front.   I am fairly sure that the crew would need to be well clear of the breach of the gun when it was fired so the figures should be positionable to the sides of the gun without a crewman standing in the area where they would be in danger of the breach or ejected casing hitting them when the gun is fired. See fvdb.50megs.com/usa/pics/90mmgmcm36.html for M-36 turret interior and the mentioned TM for more info.

Chris

[ripley]

IRC the gunner was on the left in the Achilles , the gun was just the artillery piece mounted in the turret , unlike the Firefly where the breach block  was turned so the loader could work from the left and gunner from the right as situated in a regular Sherman turret . I think the regular M-10 had the loader on the right ( check pictures of the gun mantle for the sight hole ) . The Achilles from the Littlefield collection in California ( sadly sold off as Mr Littefield died ) was a strange one as it had a co ax machine gun on the right side of the gun , I read somewhere that it was bought from Israel

[Rubicon Models]

While waiting for our Q4/16 new releases from the factory,
painted up a Zhukov prototype to kill time!



Enjoy!

[ultravanillasmurf]

Nice.

Is he going to get a feature vehicle release or be part of a Commanders pack?

[Rubicon Models]

Is he going to get a feature vehicle release or be part of a Commanders pack?

Zhukov will be in a standalone blister pack together with another officer.

[Yaquir]

Very nice!

[Rubicon Models]

Some late night posting of Michael Wittmann and Balthasar Woll - in 1/56 and 1/18 scale.
The larger 1/18 figures are upscaled directly without any touch up. If we enhanced them
just a little bit, they can be produced in any of the more popular scales - 1/48 & 1/35 too!



Enjoy!

[ultravanillasmurf]

Excellent.

[Rubicon Models]

Someone not worthwhile mentioning, but due to popular demand... Here it is!



Enjoy!

[Pinky]

"Hey, you want to talk Mexican? Join another tank - a Mexican tank. This is an American tank, we talk American."

[ultravanillasmurf]

Nice sculpt.

Will the next Sherman be an M4A2 with HVSS?

[Pinky]

I just noticed the scaled-up SS chaps.  I really wouldn't recommend that route.  When scaled up, the heroic proportions become very obvious - Woll looks almost like a dwarf.  And when you get to scales above 1/35, you need a lot more detailing, including separated pieces.

[Rubicon Models]

I just noticed the scaled-up SS chaps.  I really wouldn't recommend that route.  When scaled up, the heroic proportions become very obvious - Woll looks almost like a dwarf.  And when you get to scales above 1/35, you need a lot more detailing, including separated pieces.

We usually scale up the figures to check details and mould lines. Extra work had to be done (extra fine details and parts) before making them commercially available; but that's not our intention at the moment.

[Rubicon Models]

Probably the last post for 2016...

Major General Sir Percy Hobart. He is a much under-considered, and
under-appreciated general in the history of WW2. Partly because he
was a bit of a nutter, and partly because the limited action he did see
is hard to assess.

Nonetheless Hobart was one of the most important technical and
tactical developers of Allied armour techniques, and was responsible
for training the famed 7th Armoured Division (the Desert Rats) for
its early Blitzkreigs in North Africa (though he didn’t get to lead it
into battle); for training the outstanding 11th Armoured Division
– probably the best British armoured division of the D-Day to
Germany campaign (though he didn’t get to lead it into battle);
and developing and leading the extraordinary 79th armoured division
(Hobart’s Funnies) through that vital campaign. Liddell Hart said this
'hat trick' of the 3 best British armoured divisions of the war alone
made him incomparable, let alone his influence on armour overall.


Enjoy!