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

[ripley]

Crooked Dice stuff has potential . Was thinking more of this style , actually

Aurora has gone more Girls and Panzers lately , but they do have some actual WW2 type female figures , Nurses , Gun Crew . They used to have a few diorama pictures of the whole crew set but it seems they've renovated their site and I can only find this one view . Annie at Bad Squiddo has put out a bunch of female WW2  Russian figures , maybe she 'll tackle the Germans next . It isn't like I'm going to get the 88 kit tomorrow , or have my pile of kits built anytime soon  , so I can wait 

[Rubicon Models]

2018 seems to be an exciting year for us... an unexpected package arrived at the studio!
They look really nice, will take a closer look tomorrow.



Enjoy!

[ripley]

Wow , that a crazy plastic color . Must be one of those late 45 green colors    The gun looks very nice , I see 8 barrels , spares in case we break them ?

[Pinky]

Ripley - hopefully it has both 'truescale' and wargaming scale barrels.

[ultravanillasmurf]

The two sets do have an apparent difference in barrel thickness.

Are there different base plates for various transport options on the sprue.

That plastic colour is bad for the eyes.

[Rubicon Models]

The gun looks very nice, I see 8 barrels, spares in case we break them?

Yes, that was the original idea, but then we decided to do two sets with different barrel size just like the M2 Browning - one for modellers and one for gamers.

Also, the sprue on the left is for the 2cm Flakvierling 38 and the one on the right is for the SdAh 51 ammo trailer. 

[ripley]

Oh its the ammo trailer , I wondered what those rectangleir pieces were for .  And a choice of game or scale barrels , nice . I can see a couple of  kit bash  twin pedestal mounts  for one of my bunkers ( when I get around to building them ) with the extra barrels

[Rubicon Models]

With so many exciting things happening at the same time, we are working non-stop to share our excitement with you all...







































Enjoy!

[Pinky]

Looking good!  Seems like quite a sophisticated build - hopefully it's fairly robust.  This one takes me back to the old Airfix 88mm set, which was one of the best kits they did in that range.

One query - are the wheels perhaps oversimplified?  Here is what the wheels on this version looked like:





The spokes don't seem to curve outwards, and are further inside the rim.  The bolt detail is also different.   I realise you need to simplify them a bit, but the wheels are quite a prominent feature on the model, so it's worth getting them right.

[ripley]

Looks great . I think its a 3D print version of the gun pinky  , so some of the details will look a little " funny ", look at gun shield and barrel .  I think the wheels look ok , but each of us has our own standard to what  we want on a kit . I hope the Y shaped pegs on the out rigger legs are separate pieces  . They were large " tent peg " style thingies hammered into the ground on all four legs to keep the gun from moving

[Rubicon Models]

A more detailed look at the 2cm Flakvierling 38 TS1 plastic sprues...  Still have a lot of artefacts that needed to be fixed!

















Enjoy!

[ultravanillasmurf]

Nice.

[ripley]

Very nice indeed . Any chance of some extra 20 round clips and smaller runs  ( 2 or 3 ) ammo boxes rather than rows of 9 ( I assume they fit in the trailer )  ? As well some open boxes might be good for dioramas of a gun in combat . Or maybe you could include them with a separate gun crew

[Rubicon Models]

We had been really busy at the studio as almost all the Test Shots for quite a few projects had poured in for inspection and test assemblies!  A lot of reports to write afterwards too!

With the addition of new mould making facilities, efficiency seems to increase but cost us more on mould development costs!  Also, we need extra time and efforts to smooth out issues with new mould makers as well.

Oh well, here is a series of montage images of the AA gun together with the trailer... just too many pictures to post individually.  Enjoy!















Enjoy!

[ripley]

Someone at Warlord must be checking out your site and getting nervous  , they have this listed in their latest newsletter as coming in 2018 . It could  be a version by one of  their partners  , either an up scaled PSC or a down scaled ( from 1/48 ) Italeri