Tristar (!) Flakpanzer Ia - available from HoBo now
Posted: 20 Feb 2020, 23:31
Alright - a GB - yay - let's start with something that has been suggested - and not interrupt every sentence with stream-of-consciousness-bars....
Aaaaaaalright - on topic now!
It's a Flakpanzer I, developed after experiences in the Battle of France but only available in time for Barbarossa and only in small numbers - 24 in total and all concentrated in Fla.-Btl.(mot) 614 which translates to "Motorized Flak Battalion 614".
Used for several reasons (Red Air Force mostly destroyed right out at the start of Barbarossa, not ALL that useful in this mounting against aircraft to begin with...) primarily against soft ground targets - much like other vehicles sporting the various versions of 2cm auto-cannons it's a supremely great meat-grinder against troops and unarmoured or only lightly armoured vehicles - and as we all know those two targets are the majority of things present in numbers on the battlefields of the early 40s...
Oh and the unit was completely annihilated in the Stalingrad-pocket having already lost most of it's Flakpanzer Ia over the course of Blue...
Might be an effect of my Eastern Front affinity, but I feel that I quite frequently end up building vehicles for units that have been completely annihilated (StuG Abteilung 243 exempli gratia...) or revived after annihilation with new hardware and new personnel... aww well... that's the eastern theatre for you... WH40k in real life ...
Anyhow - this is a Tristar kit i.e. it has a ton of itsy-bitsy-tiny-small parts, most of it plastic, and a fairly soft one at that but with sharp detail and some etch.
Today available from HoBo.
I went through the innards ( ) in this kit for the Ia pretty quickly - Tristar has pretty (okay... really, got worse in the last kits) good fit, so the very fiddly parts are way less of a problem than one would suppose.
I decided to keep the Möbelwagen-esque platform elements up in travel mode as I will have this one towing it's trailer (ajnd yes, it has a Flak 38
So far so good, let's see if the 2cm Flak 38 will work without AM...
I actually might have a 2cm barrel somewhere around here... haven't kept order all that much the last months - here's how my work...desk..place...thingy has been looking for the last months... =>
That's it for now.
Best regards
Raoul G. Kunz
Aaaaaaalright - on topic now!
It's a Flakpanzer I, developed after experiences in the Battle of France but only available in time for Barbarossa and only in small numbers - 24 in total and all concentrated in Fla.-Btl.(mot) 614 which translates to "Motorized Flak Battalion 614".
Used for several reasons (Red Air Force mostly destroyed right out at the start of Barbarossa, not ALL that useful in this mounting against aircraft to begin with...) primarily against soft ground targets - much like other vehicles sporting the various versions of 2cm auto-cannons it's a supremely great meat-grinder against troops and unarmoured or only lightly armoured vehicles - and as we all know those two targets are the majority of things present in numbers on the battlefields of the early 40s...
Oh and the unit was completely annihilated in the Stalingrad-pocket having already lost most of it's Flakpanzer Ia over the course of Blue...
Might be an effect of my Eastern Front affinity, but I feel that I quite frequently end up building vehicles for units that have been completely annihilated (StuG Abteilung 243 exempli gratia...) or revived after annihilation with new hardware and new personnel... aww well... that's the eastern theatre for you... WH40k in real life ...
Anyhow - this is a Tristar kit i.e. it has a ton of itsy-bitsy-tiny-small parts, most of it plastic, and a fairly soft one at that but with sharp detail and some etch.
Today available from HoBo.
I went through the innards ( ) in this kit for the Ia pretty quickly - Tristar has pretty (okay... really, got worse in the last kits) good fit, so the very fiddly parts are way less of a problem than one would suppose.
I decided to keep the Möbelwagen-esque platform elements up in travel mode as I will have this one towing it's trailer (ajnd yes, it has a Flak 38
So far so good, let's see if the 2cm Flak 38 will work without AM...
I actually might have a 2cm barrel somewhere around here... haven't kept order all that much the last months - here's how my work...desk..place...thingy has been looking for the last months... =>
That's it for now.
Best regards
Raoul G. Kunz