1:72 German Leaders

And now for something completely different...I got this sprue from ebay. It came with a big lot with other figures. I do not like them and but I wanted to find more informations about them.
The only hint that I had was some marking at the sprue (see picture below). Then I found this very interesting article about this figure set hidden in the features of the site. That gave me some informations but they did not know the manufacturer, too.
This Italian shop (scroll down) sells the labelled as HYTTY. But I always thought that HYTTY is a Russion produrer. I did not know that France belongs to Russia
I do not write more about this strange figures but to the conclusion I would like to quote PSR, because I think the same about this set."The argument goes that it is better to have poor figures than no figures, and there is some truth in that. Most of these subjects are unique to this set, and a skilled painter would be able to make more of them than did the sculptor. However for the majority of people this set, whatever it is actually called, is little more than a curiosity, and not worth adding to the collection unless you absolutely must have everything ever made."

1:72 Bergepanzer III (Work In Progress)

(too lazy to write today)

HÄT 1:72 Panzer III G conversion

Here are some pictures of my current project. I try to build a Bergepanzer III from a HäT Panzer III G. I removed the turret and built a repair platform from scratch. My only sources were this article and some pictures I found via Google.

The materials I used for it are pieces of cardboard, wooden sticks and some parts from the spare box. The crane was built from different plastic parts.

There is still some work to do. I will add some more details to it and will try to modify the tracks with my method of drilling (see here). I will try another modification which I found at this link.

The wooden platform is finished.

Some self-made rivets were attached.

Tools and equipment are still missing.

The crane will get some more details.

20 % Discount at PBtoys.de

Peter, owner of PBtoys (one of the best online shops for 1:72 figures), gives all his customers 20 percent discount on all orders until the 31st january 2010.

He has a big sortiment of figures from different manufacturers like Caesar, Emhar, HÄT, Italeri, Pegasus and many more. In addition the sortiment of Italeri, Pegasus and Armourfast kits is growing on. The prices are very fair and sometimes you can find some rarities in his shops.

Follow THIS LINK to his 1:72 shop and maybe you will find some interesting products. If you like 1:42 figures you can follow THIS LINK to his shop for 1:32 figures and stuff, HERE you can find Elastolin figures, the shop for Britains figures is HERE, and HERE you can find Timpo Toys figures.

You have to order in each shop seperately but all orders from his shops will be sent in one packet, which means that you have to pay only one time the postage.

Update 04/2018
Seems like PBtoys has closed it's gate

1:87 Raupenschlepper Ost Paper Kit By Satoshi Yoshioka

If you mentioned my linklist on the right side of this blog you will find Satoshi Yoshioka's website who designs model kits building from paper. There is a nice sortiment (15+) of downloadable model kits.

I downloaded the kit of the Raupenschlepper Ost as tractor for one of my two artillery batteries. The PDF document contains all parts for two simple models of the RSO on one DIN A4 page. Unfortunally the RSOs are grey colored that I had to modify this kit for my personal use.


This picture shows my first try with the building of paper kits, and I was surprised that the building went only with some minor problems. I changed all grey parts to white that I can paint them with water colors in some camo pattern.

My cmera makes a little trouble that I made only one picture of it. The figures come from the figure set "German Auto Infantry" of Russian producer Mars. They look like they are pirated copies from Matchbox and Airfix, maybe I will do a comparison of this figures in the future.

At the moment I am designing the interior section for the RSO. When it is done I will make it downloadable in order to supply the RSO with some interior equipment. In the next days some more pictures of the paper kits will come.

UPDATE:
I compared the measures of my kit (51 mm lengh) and the measures that I found in the wikipedia (4425 mm lengh). It seems like the model I build is not 1:72. The comparison resulted that the kit is in 1:87 scale, that means that i have to do some conversions on the scale.

If someone of you has an 1:87 or 1:72 model or kit of the RSO, it would be nice if you could post the lengh of it in the comments.