Battlefield 3D do quite a range of odd vehicles (well, odd in the sense that they aren't all wall-wall tanks, although do have inevitable E100 etc). I added a couple of their German rear echelon vehicles to my recent order.
A Krupp Protze Command Car and an Opel Fuel Tanker. The latter is the first actual 15mm German fuel tanker model I've ever seen, as opposed to a normal lorry with fuel drums in the back.
I got the Protze Command Car because
a. it is really cute
b. I was planning on turning my existing Granit Ambulance into an actual Ambulance (as seen in my earlier post on ambulances) .
It is a single piece print, beautifully detailed and quite inexpensive for resin. It even has a little aerial array on the cab roof, printed with gaps around it.
It does however have no less than eight tyres to paint, including the spare whees, so I'm not likely to get loads of these. I find painting tyres rather tiresome. Ho. Ho. Ho.
The tanker is also lovely, and like their Dorchester, hollow to keep the volume of material (and cost) down.
Both models have lots of nicely printed detail which takes a wash and drybrush well.
I did them both in faded and dusty Panzer Grey, so they will do for most theatres. I vaguely thought about doing the tanker in grey/brown disruptive but in the end decided against it. I recently saw a couple photos of a 1944 Panther battalion HQ, and many of the the softskin vehicles were still very obviously panzer grey, so I have no great qualms about using grey vehicles later in the war. For rear echelon stuff anyway. The Russians for one put no great faith in camouflage paint schemes, relying instead on good use of terrain and natural camouflage.
I see they also do a Zis-5 fuel tanker.
ReplyDeleteH&R have a German tank truck like that in their range in 6mm. I’m not sure if the army used them or if they were mostly Luftwaffa for refueling planes while the army relied on barrels and Jerry cans.
ReplyDeleteI've no idea really, the jerry an was such a good design that maybe that just used those in the army. I shamelessly used the Airfix RAF refuelling set to supply tankers for my 20mm Megablitz armies. I vaguely imagined two Crusaders lined up, one on each side of the twin pipe tanker.
DeleteThe bulk tankers were mostly Luftwaffe, as far as I know, but I use them too as they are more distinctive as log vehicles. Isn't the resin model lovely, as opposed to the FDM Protze?
ReplyDeleteRegards, Chris
Yes,, now I'm in the 'bits and pieces' phase again, I'm going resin every time, unless there is a ludicrous price difference.
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