Re: [GZG] Re: 25mm scale armour - Plastic Kits

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Michael R. Blair wrote:

1/60 or 1/65 is the 'right' scale for 25mm.  1/48 looks really good next

to the big figures (GW etc.).

For low tech armor, Mongooses battlefield Evolution in in 1/65 scale
(and 
their figures are in 25mm - they look just the right size next to my
NSL).
Course, these are prepainted.

> I know 1/48th scale is not quite right for 25mm scale
> figures but it is as good as you will get for plastic
> kits and slightly too big is not bad as they look big
> and impressive.
>
> 1/48th is the coming scale for armour with new kits
> from Tamiya and others. Unfortunately the Tamiya kits
> are relatively expensive, proper kits with lots of
> pieces and only of WW II subjects. However there are
> cheaper alternatives
>
> A Chinese company, it seems to be both Zhengdefu and
> Kitech do a wide range of approximately 1/48th scale
> kits of modern tanks, AFVs/IFVs and some 8-wheeled
> vehicles. Everything is built on one of two motorised
> chassis, one for tracked and one for wheeled so the
> running gear is the same for each type of vehicle
> hence the variation is scale to match the size of the
> chassis.
>
> I found the detail to be, surprisingly, better than
> for the equivalent Academy kits which could be a
> little soft though bear in mind the only 1/48th scale
> Academy tank kits I have are the M-60 and the
> Challenger I with an old Panther (the best of the
> three until a long ago misguided attempt to turn it
> into a blower panzer) so others might be better.
>
> They are quite cheap and sometimes easy to find – it
> seems to be glut or famine and for a while I made a
> point of buying all I saw until I had a nice big box
> of them. Usefully they do some Japanese and French
> tanks that are unlikely to be recognised by anyone who
> is not French, Japanese or an anorak (unfortunately
> many wargamers are – I am).
>
> Airfix also had an Airfix Junior range of Heller
> originated kits with two very nice French based
> armoured cars. The hull is the same for both but one
> has two axles and the other three. The former ha a
> slightly dodgy missile turret with two side mounted
> missiles and the latter a rather nice turret with a
> long barrelled gun. Detail is slightly soft and the
> plastic a little odd but there is a lot of potential
> here. These seem to be getting hard to find, I only
> ever saw them in one shop in Belfast (The Dungeon or
> Modellers' Nook) and he is good at producing strange
> things (and charging too much for them).
>
> There are websites out there with better conversion
> articles than anything I can do, those by the Salute
> crowd are excellent. The link, as if anyone needs it,
> is:
> http://www.salute.co.uk/slammers3/index.htm
> Evergreen styrene, particularly the tubing and
> textured plasticard from Evergreen and Slaters are
> your friends as is the brass tubing and rod from KS
> Metals and the various detailing sets from Tamiya,
> Academy and Italeri.
>
> I should also point out that my FLGS carries Evergreen
> styrene, I used to find it very hard to find so I
> think it is worth posting the link.
> http://www.netmerchants.co.uk/
>
> One thing I would like to try is a remote gun mount
> like the Stryker MGS and various earlier light tanks.
> This should be fairly easy to do.
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>
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