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New Rubicon 28mm plastic vehicle kits arrived at Plastic Soldier Company and shipping!

M5A1 Stuart/M5A1 Recce, M8 Scott HMC, A15 Crusader, Opel Blitz halftrack, M3/M3A1 Halftrack, German Stowage kit 1.

Plus large restock arrived too

Available in the webstore:-
www.theplasticsoldiercompany.co.uk

Retailers - please email me at info@theplasticsoldiercompany.co.uk.

Thanks for the news. This release is right up my alley. Probably going to pick up an M3 halftrack and the M8 Scott.

Im still wondering how an M5 Stuart with a Cullin got into the jungle...

Big P wrote:
Im still wondering how an M5 Stuart with a Cullin got into the jungle...

Yeah, there are a couple of odd features in the box art, but the kits are very good.

That's traditional though... model box art is always a little fast and loose...

Like the Matchbox DAK Panther box art...

Big P wrote:
That's traditional though... model box art is always a little fast and loose...

Like the Matchbox DAK Panther box art...

Pretty sure the Panther was depicted in Italy. They had a DAK Wespe though.

Perhaps we should stay on topic...

Big P wrote:


Like the Matchbox DAK Panther box art...

I was pretty sure that it was Airfix that depicted their 1:76 Panther in DAK markings.

 sing your life wrote:
I was pretty sure that it was Airfix that depicted their 1:76 Panther in DAK markings.

Not on the original box art. But I see that a later version of the packaging had what definitely looks like DAK Panthers. Must have been the overall dark yellow that fooled the artist...

Rubicon have done pretty well. There are only a few glitches. There were no Crusader II's in service by the time the Tiger appeared, so the burning Tiger on the Crusader box is an anachronism. Their 3-in1 SdKfz 251 shows a dark grey Ausf D, which is wrong, but they seem to have revised the packaging to depict a proper 3-colour scheme (the wonders of digital design). The weirdest one is the driver in the Opel Blitz seems to be sitting much higher than his (identical) passenger. I really like the lush backgrounds in each scene.

 Tailgunner wrote:
the weirdest one is the driver in the Opel Blitz seems to be sitting much higher than his (identical) passenger. I really like the lush backgrounds in each scene.

He's driving a lot, so he's sitting on his official Wehrmacht Stoßkissen

 judgedoug wrote:

 Tailgunner wrote:
the weirdest one is the driver in the Opel Blitz seems to be sitting much higher than his (identical) passenger. I really like the lush backgrounds in each scene.

He's driving a lot, so he's sitting on his official Wehrmacht Stoßkissen

It looks more like he's standing up slightly to get a better look at something in the distance to me.

 sing your life wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:

 Tailgunner wrote:
the weirdest one is the driver in the Opel Blitz seems to be sitting much higher than his (identical) passenger. I really like the lush backgrounds in each scene.

He's driving a lot, so he's sitting on his official Wehrmacht Stoßkissen

It looks more like he's standing up slightly to get a better look at something in the distance to me.

"Oh dear. It seems Hans isn't wearing a period correct tunic today. Tsk tsk tsk".