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If you look at the size of the box, it gives you a clue to the size of the sprues. The boat's hull is nearly as long as the box. The armoured car's body length is nearly as wide as the box.

But for so cheap a price perhaps it is worth taking a bit of a chance.

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http://www.hlj.com/product/amh35a007

I had not heard of this tank before. Apparently it was an on paper proposal only. The possibilities for 40K conversions are obvious though.


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Hobbyboss is a great company for 40k conversions. The kits are cheap yet of fine quality... Myself, I'm converting a 1/48 soviet KV-2 to a grot tank/gun battery.

   
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 Kilkrazy wrote:



http://www.hlj.com/product/amh35a007

I had not heard of this tank before. Apparently it was an on paper proposal only. The possibilities for 40K conversions are obvious though.



Actually, I have seen old black and white photos of the wooden model for the concept so the tank was paper, and also a wooden 3-d model, and that was as far as the PaKpFw-VII ever got.
It would make a nice super-heavy

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That Panzer is cool. I am surprised World of Tanks hasn't used it.

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 SickSix wrote:
That Panzer is cool. I am surprised World of Tanks hasn't used it.


The Lowe is a premium, or was, get into some high tier battles and they pop up occassionally they have it as VK-72.01



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Oh what they call the Lowe is like the turret on a King Tiger chassis


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So, turret to the rear is the light Lowe(Lion), the one most play in world of Tanks is the Schwere(heavy) Lowe

http://www.achtungpanzer.com/panzerkampfwagen-vii-lowe.htm

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Yeah and nearly everything on achtungpanzer is garbage

the above VK72.01 is a 100% fantasy tank made bei Wargaming for World of Tanks.

the article on achtungpanzer was changed a few months after the tank was seen in game to fit the new design
the only difference between the historical light and heavy loewe concept was a different frontal armour (increasing the total weight from 72 to 90 tons)


But the model is still a nice to make a custom heavy tank in 40k

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 kodos wrote:
Yeah and nearly everything on achtungpanzer is garbage

the above VK72.01 is a 100% fantasy tank made bei Wargaming for World of Tanks.

the article on achtungpanzer was changed a few months after the tank was seen in game to fit the new design
the only difference between the historical light and heavy loewe concept was a different frontal armour (increasing the total weight from 72 to 90 tons)


But the model is still a nice to make a custom heavy tank in 40k


It was the link I had for the image of the "Light" Lowe whichh is laughable when the light version is 76tons, or would have been.
The heavy Lowe at 90 tons also insane these things would have been hard to support or pull for repairs back then, and today would be also a logistics nightmare, of course in the grimdark future, they have the capability to handle such things so yeah, and at the price just 40bucks, makes it reasonably priced. I may have to get on and mod it for my 40k collection.

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That Lowe would be excellent for Dust Axis forces.

   
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 Kilkrazy wrote:
Not new strictly however I thought these sale items at Hobby Link Japan worth bringing to the forum's attention...


Kit Clac! is a series of simple snap fit model kits aimed at younger children, by Heller of France. I had not heard of it before as they are not sold in the UK.

The sale prices for these kits are very low so they may be worth grabbing "just in case". I am rather tempted to buy half a dozen because you can't go wrong for £2 a kit though of course there is also the postage to think about.

http://www.hlj.com/product/HEL52041/Mil
Scorpion: a four wheeled armoured car. The display pic shows the sprues. The car's body is arranged across the short width of the box, so it must fit within 18cm and looks to be about 15cm long.

http://www.hlj.com/product/HEL52040/Mil
Titan: a six wheeled armoured car using the same hull as the Scorpion.

http://www.hlj.com/product/HEL52024/Nav
Fireboat. The hull looks to be about 20cm long.

The range also includes a "Hawaian Cruiser" using the Fireboat hull, and various civilian vehicles and aircraft that might be of use in skirmish and RP games or for conversion fodder.


While browsing the site I spotted a couple of modern military kits on sale that may be of interest.

http://www.hlj.com/product/KNE61010/Mil
RG-31 Mk.3 Canadian Army MRAP 4-wheel vehicle. Going very cheap at Y2,145 but grab it quick as the stock is low!

http://www.hlj.com/product/HEL81147/Mil
VBCI is the French Army's 9-wheel armoured personnel carrier. This kit is a good buy too at Y2,100 but again stock is low.

HLJ seem to have changed to a site design that prevents the grabbing of the image URLs, so I was not able easily to bag pictures.


Update on the Kit Claq models.

Mine have arrived. The Titan armoured car hull is 13.5cm long and 6cm wide. The kit is very simple, with only four parts for the turret for example -- base, top, gun unit and radar aerial -- the hatches are just rough detail moulded on the top. The tyres have the inside wall missing. You would not notice this in normal play. For the discounted price I am very pleased with them -- bought three at about £2 each. It turned out to be a good gamble. I haven't opened the boat kit.

Most of the Heller kits are still available though no longer on sale.

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Canterbury

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000N2F5G4?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

probably be alright for WFB or similar.

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Ah yes, the Viking ship from Revell, also quite the right scale, just a tad bigger than the minis, always good.



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Guess you could use it for Space Wolves too.

Stick a couple of wolves on chains on the front to pull it and you're good

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That would be very nice for SAGA actually!

About £10 cheaper than the official Gripping Beast model, looks a fair bit bigger too.

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BOOM! Dragon is making ALL OUR DREAMS come true!

New kits shipping in July, 1/35 scale (a bit big for 40k but ends up looking about right)

https://www.facebook.com/DragonUSA
http://www.dragonusaonline.com/home.aspx











I need like 10 of these.

NOW.

 
   
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Now that Skoda PA-2 is fantastic

It would look probably look good as an armoured car or similar in a Batman game too

 
   
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Love that mortar. Perfect for a heavy mortar in a IG army. But most people would prefer something to use as a Quad Mortar alot of times. I wounder if dragon dose any of the WWII artillery that inspired that forgeworld modle.

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I cannot link to the pages because I am at work, but I was recently looking at early WW2 Japanese light tanks in 1/76 or 1/72 as Grot Tanks.

Here is an example

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_95_Ha-Go

   
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 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
BOOM! Dragon is making ALL OUR DREAMS come true!



They're not making any of our dreams come true.... all of the kits are from Takom [except the French tank from Bronco] and DML had nothing to do with their development, they're just owners of one of the web stores stocking the kits in the US.

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 nflagey wrote:
Anyone knows, in terms of quality, of the details, ... how the different brands compare? Airfix, Revell, Italeri ...


Of the lot Tamiya kits are well detailed, but not ridiculously so. Some Academy and dragon kits are also well detailed, but often come with tracks that are made of individual pieces which can be annoying to build. Italieri/testor's kits kind of straddle the line between Tamiya and the others. Airfix and Revell kits tend to be cheaper and less detailed and I consider Tamiya the lowest level that I want to buy. Once you build a Tamiya kit, though, you'll never want to spend money on another GW tank kit every again. They are just full of so much more detail that GW kits and are interesting to build as well, most are also designed to allow wheels and treads to roll freely when one controls their glue usage as well. Stepping up to dragon and then academy kits the detail just gets better, photo-etched brass becomes common and also milled metal pieces for barrels start becoming the norm as well. As a long term WWII buff I have been a big fan of 1/35 scale modeling for most of my life. I find the 1/35 scale kits to be slightly larger than some of their 40k counterparts, but their realism more than makes up for that. All of my IG armies have been full of 1/35 scale armor. My original armies focused on german armor, but my current IG/Chaos Renegades force combines US sherman variants for leman russ tanks, Italian semovente spg hulls and M13 tanks as my hellhound variants and the chimeras, basilisk and hydra are all based off of japanese type 85 chi-ha tank hulls. Not a single GW vehicle among the lot. I do have a shadowsword in the closet I plan to build as a stormsword most likely, and I also have a malcador defender tank from forge world. The malcador is pretty tiny for a super heavy, though and is about as big as my sherman leman russ tanks. Just love the more realistic look of the tanks, though, and the kits are so much better to build.

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Airfix and Italeri are bottom tier kits in my opinion: poor tooling, kits that do not fit together well, horrid details.

Tamiya is affordable and accessible, plus easy to build.



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 BrookM wrote:
Airfix and Italeri are bottom tier kits in my opinion: poor tooling, kits that do not fit together well, horrid details.

Tamiya is affordable and accessible, plus easy to build.


Most people agree that Airfix quality varies quite a lot depending on the time of release. Their new 1/72 Lightning is the finest tooling of any scale or material although the old version was quite awful, for example, though modern Italeri usually gets ignored with the exception of some decent Italian subjects. Tamiya are of course easier to build than most other manufacturers and stocked in most places that carry modelling-related however most of their not ancient kits have every penny of the import costs included in the price so they can be somewhat overpriced for what you, though Tamiya sells mainly in Japan so they are very affordable to import from there.

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Some other kits of interest I found on Squadron.com

http://www.squadron.com/1-35-ICM-Type-G4-W31-WWII-German-Personnel-Car-w-p/icm35532.htm




A bit big at 1/35 but would make a perfect armored limo or IG staff car.

http://www.squadron.com/Meng-1-35-U-S-Cougar-6x6-MRAP-Vehicle-p/mmss005.htm



Alternate Taurox with the advantage that it actually looks kinda good.

http://www.squadron.com/Meng-1-35-German-A7V-Tank-Krupp-MMTS017-p/mmts017.htm



Yes please! Even at 1/35 still too small for a leviathan or capital Imperialus but...

http://www.squadron.com/1-35-Meng-VsKfz-617-Minenraumer-MMSS001-p/mmss001.htm




How about one of these (it's a WWII German mine sweeper BTW, never really worked) followed by 2 or 3 of the A7 tanks to make a neo-land train?

 
   
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Had a couple german horch staff cars for my old genestealer cult for use as cult limos. They were 1/35 as well, but that was the only way they looked big enough to actually hold more than a single genestealer or to hold the patriarch at all.

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So many armor. but what about 28 or 30 mm 'heroic scale' small arms from 1914-1945 ?



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I'm honestly surprised Empress hasn't made it here.
http://www.empressminiatures.com/userimages/procart40.htm


It's all 1/48.. which I prefer but I get that others might prefer the over-sized look.

These guys have some coming in the near future. All modern stuff.
http://www.spectreminiatures.com/collections/

Some decently cool kits and fairly awesome conversions
http://sandsmodelsshop.com/product-category/28mm-160th-ww2/

The AFV Technika section is mostly conversions (maybe totally) but it adds that little bit of extra something if you are using military models and want that extra bit of detail
http://www.blackdog.cz/


   
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 Lone Cat wrote:
So many armor. but what about 28 or 30 mm 'heroic scale' small arms from 1914-1945 ?


Your best bet is 1/35 accessory sets, they usually have a lot of guns along iwth pouches, backpacks and such.

Dragon used to do a line of modern weapons, sprues of nothing but AKs, M-16s and MP5s but I haven't seen them in many years (luckyy I stocked up for my SWAT team IG which I never finished)

here are some of my favorites:

http://www.squadron.com/1-35-ICM-WWI-Austro-Hungarian-Infantry-Weapon-and-p/icm35671.htm
http://www.squadron.com/1-35-Tamiya-German-Infantry-Weapons-Set-TM35111-p/tm35111.htm
http://www.squadron.com/1-35-Tamiya-Oil-Drums-Jerry-Cans-Buckets-p/tm35026.htm
http://www.squadron.com/1-35-Tamiya-Allied-Vehicle-Access-TM35229-p/tm35229.htm
http://www.squadron.com/1-35-Tamiya-Modern-US-Military-Equipment-Set-p/tm35266.htm

The allied vehicles and US Modern kits are superb for dressing up IG vehicles and battlefield terrain.



And the German Set was great for my IG zombies


And if you've got the time, here's a few hundred accessory kits to scroll through

http://www.squadron.com/miltary-model-accessories-and-decals-s/2687.htm

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Trumpeter also do a selection of 1/35 scale small arms

http://old1.trumpeter-china.com/plus/list.php?tid=98

(not sure how easy they are to get hold of now)

 
   
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Verlinden has some fantastic accessories and small arms. 1/35 afaik though

   
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Good catch, I checked and Squadon has them,

Looks like you get less than those Dragon kits (man I loved those dragon kits) but if you want IG wtih AKs or M-16s there's an option for you.

 
   
 
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