German AA/AT Guns - 3.7cm FlaK 43 TS2 Painted 190323

[Captain Blood]

The gun looks superb.

The figures, being honest, do not look quite right. The arms look too long, and the uniforms look too baggy - I think the creases are too over-exaggerated, making these figures look like they are wearing great big, loose sack type clothing. Sorry to be critical. I admire your ambition, but I think making good looking miniatures using digital sculpting is a lot more difficult than making good looking hardware, equipment and vehicles... I'm sure the quality of figure sculpting will improve with future releases. My advice would be - cut back on the amount of creasing in the sleeves in particular. By quite a lot.

[Rubicon Models]

First test shot plastic for the PaK 38 and PaK 40 finally arrived!





Enjoy!

[Pinky]

Excellent!

It's great that you've included multiple ammo boxes.  A lot of kits of guns only have one.

I assume you didn't decide to include the wheel on the carriage of the Pak 38?  There was a discussion about it a while back. 

[Yaquir]

Very good. Move on! 

[Rubicon Models]

I assume you didn't decide to include the wheel on the carriage of the Pak 38?  There was a discussion about it a while back.

We have looked at the extra wheel on the carriage and found it quite complicated to design while making it look realistic, so we dropped it.

The wheel needed extra pieces to "lock" the carriage while in transport.  We see the chance people using this pose is minimum.

[ultravanillasmurf]

Nice.

[Swamprat33]

Very nice.
When can we expect to see these in the shops?

Tim

[Pinky]

The wheel needed extra pieces to "lock" the carriage while in transport.  We see the chance people using this pose is minimum.

Ripley pointed out that the wheel was used to manoeuvre the gun when in action, not for when it's in transport mode.  But never mind - I guess it's fairly easy to add.

[Rubicon Models]

Ripley pointed out that the wheel was used to manoeuvre the gun when in action, not for when it's in transport mode.  But never mind - I guess it's fairly easy to add.

We were saying the part is difficult to design without duplicating additional (extra) trails and parts to make it look realistic.

[Pinky]

I don't think many will notice its absence.  The guns look really good - looking forward to these two.

[Rubicon Models]

The mid-war crews are almost done, now still waiting for the late-war version!  Will take a while before they are ready on the release list.

[Rubicon Models]

Here is the PaK 40 TS1 plastic painted:



















Enjoy!

[Pinky]

It looks very nice.  Great to see another important piece of equipment finally available in plastic. 

The slot in the loading tray below the breech block should be much wider and deeper - the loading tray was just a folded piece of metal.  There was also usually a long box attached to the back of the shield (for storing the sight, I think).  But these are very minor points, and easily dealt with by anyone who cares.

Apparently the barrel was retracted when in travel mode.  I'm guessing it's possible to position the barrel in that way.  As you mentioned before, it's normally going to be built in the 'in action' configuration.

[Rubicon Models]

True!  We had simplified the loading tray for mould making (the plastic can't be too thin and had to be at an angle).  Other than that, should be reasonably close.

[ultravanillasmurf]

Really good.

What is the usual tractor for one of these, a 251?

Echoing Pinky, it is great to see  important artillery in plastic.

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