Re: Alternative SG II APCs

On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:56:39 -0800 (PST), Brian Burger
<burger00@camosun.bc.ca> wrote:

>Another source of sg2 armoured vehicles is the Roco Minitanks line;
these
>are HO (1/87) or 1/72 scale (I can't recall which) vehicles, mostly
modern
>European vehicles.

I concur!

>They work as big 15mm scale vehicles, and they might work (some of
them)
>as smaller 25mm vehicles (I only have 15mm figs personally). I have
>several West German Marder A2 IFV/MICVs right now, with the tracks
removed
>and Das modelling clay GEV skirts installed. I'm using them as Size 4
>IFVs, carrying 12 troops max. The Roco Minitanks are around Cdn $7-8.

I picked the Marder as well! I bought some of the training variant,
removed the treads, and closed over the track wells. This converted
them into grav APCs. I did the same thing with American Sheridans
(which are old enough that most laymen don't get that, "it's a
modified Abrams/M113/Bradley" feel.

I didn't actually think of putting skirts on them for GEVs, though. Do
you have any pictures of the skirts, or any tips in creating them?

>You can do exactly the same thing with bigger scale models for 25mm
>Stargrunt - I think 1/35 is the scale you want. 

1/48 is probably closer. However, I think 1/48 tanks are hard to come
by these days. They used to be more popular when I was a kid. 1/48 is
still a fairly popular aircraft scale, though.

Allan Goodall	     agoodall@sympatico.ca

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