This means that my proposed 15mm Desert Rats Light Tank Company will now - officially - be happening - probably my next new project once February's Bolt Action tourney is out of the way.
On that note, by the way (and recent festive business notwithstanding) I've now pretty much finished the painting of my final 15 infantry from my army for that... it'll just be basing left after tonight. Update later this week.
- Drax.
Ooh! So those are bolt action scale???
ReplyDeleteAt £2.99 each? I wish! No mate, these are Flames of War scale (1/100 or 15mm), but still dirt cheap: less than half the cost of Battle Front's resin models, and I much prefer plastic anyway.
ReplyDeleteOh, I missed that bit. :-(
ReplyDeleteI've never played FoW, but have heard horror stories about the quality of their resin/metal hybrid kits.
the resin/metal isn't that bad. I've gotten rare poor castings. Their first plastics (original Open Fire sets) left something to be desired, as well. BF is pretty good about getting you replacements however.
ReplyDeleteTheir plastics are nice, and the PSC plastics are a decent alternative.
Just hope you don't "need" to assemble 18 Motorcycle troops, or Calliope Shermans, or French Laffly Anti-tank trucks.
Overall, I've been pleased with BF stuff.
Ive not had much issue with their resin myself, although I think some of their moulds are quite tired now.
DeleteTheir metal bits are good though, and their new plastic kits are absolutely lovely!
Hurrah !
ReplyDeleteAt that price, it would rude not to.
Yeah. But - as ever - I'm going to play the long game and wait until the back end of February :(
ReplyDeleteIs the US M3A1 the same type as the Honey though?
ReplyDeleteEither way, am excited to finally see some work proposed on this. That lonely Honey must be sick of keeping company with the dust mites in the back of the Drax closet, under the forgotten dirty socks, next to the 1992 Rolo wrapper...
Ha! As far as I've always been aware (and after a quick wiki-check too) the Brits used all available M3 variants interchangeably and called them all 'Honey' as a generic term. This particular variant was the Stuart III. I may be wrong about this, but I think that's broadly accurate. I'm not enough of a rivet counter to care about things like track guard shapes or weld lines... Although I'm going to need to find about 15 .50cals from somewhere I think!
DeleteAnd my little friend, well, he's waiting for me in my top modelly drawer!