I recently finished another 3Dprinted/modelkit hybrid, this time it is the 1:100 Opel Blitz model of Zvezdas "Art of Tactics" game which got equipped with a 3Dprinted Flak 38, like this one I did some years ago.
The built of the truck went fast and without any issues, all parts were casted fine and had a good fit. There will come no closer look at the kit, but some good reviews can be found on the web and youtube.
I changed the freightbed and added the flak to use it for a final playtest of my planned planes expansion for TANKS. The plastic of the kit seemed very soft but it took modelglue without any issues.
On the left side you can see the 3D printed Opel Blitz of my mate Olli, with a scratchbuilt freightbed and also equipped with the same flak model. Both files came from this excellent collection of 1:100 .stl files of tanks and trucks, the Flak 38 was icluded within the Horch files, at least I think so.
Another time I was positively surprised by our printed stuff. While the Opel was one of the first kits we ever printed, we had no idea what we did and its quality could be much better nowadays, I would not say its is bad, but it is not good either.
The flakguns got very well done with the cheapest 3D printer on the market (1 1/2 years ago). They needed some cleaning from the support structures but would have been ready to paint after that.
A view on the additional stuff which was added, I decided to add a scratchbuilt seat and a gunner from the bitsbox for both Flak 38. The gunners had a shoulder amputation for a better fit, but this can hardly be seen on the finished model.
Another small modification was magnetizing the flak. I glued a 2x2 rare earth magnet into the socket of the Flak 38 and glued a small metal plate right on the freightbed under the carriage for the gun.
When Olli has finished his truck, I will show you how it is applied.
Next Monday the Montagsmaler will continue their roguish projects, since 3 of 4 factions got their mobile AA units finished, the only thing left to do is to get some AA units for the Soviets.
And this will be (what a surprise) more 3D/Zvezda hybrids. I already printed some guns but I think I will have to redo them because the scaling seems wrong.
By the way, is it 3Dprinting or 3D printing, I think I will continue to use both versions.
By the way, all new kit pictures are uploaded, so stay tuned to get a small overview (hehe) of Zvezda 1:100 wargaming kits which we use and will use for ww2/ww3 TANKS games in future posts.
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