"What 1/72nd vehicles would you like to see next from PSC?" Topic

The 1/72 M5/M5A1 will be very welcome:).

Any vehicle over three inches long in this scale! EG. T-35, T-28, Char 2; surprising how many of these are available in white metal, but not plastic!

i forgot – Churchills!
and extra box with things for the funnies.

Armored Cars

Durable armored cars!!!!!!

i forgot – Churchills!
and extra box with things for the funnies.

According to their website, they already have 15 mm and 1/72nd versions of Churchill listed on their medium term release plan. I presume they are referring to the infantry tank, and not to a certain prime minister of the same name (though many pulp gamers might find a good use for a 28 mm prime minister with top hat, cigar and tommy gun).

No mention of any funnies, though. AVRE would be an interesting possibility, not sure how much sprue space it would require though.

M18 Hellcat for sure, M5 also much needed.

M3 WHite Scout car
Ford GPA "SEEP" amphibious Jeep
DUKWs
Studebaker Trucks
M22 Locust Airborne Tank
SOMUA
Weapons Carriers

Stowage. One whole box of stowage for different nations! You'd sell loads. Ammo boxes, bedrolls, shells, packs of various shapes and sizes, camo netting rollups, spare wheels, etc.

(though many pulp gamers might find a good use for a 28 mm prime minister with top hat, cigar and tommy gun)

*this* pulp gamer prefers the younger Mr. Churchill, dealing with bloody Pathans and other hill tribes in the late 1890s.

Not that I wouldn't mind a mini of the classic picture you're referring to!

I'll say it again – Panzer III mit schurtzen – Kursk just isn't the same without them!

I hear you Sparker

Great – I'll alert my bank manager…

I think the horch heavy car would be good

@Miniature man.

BEF infantry – pretty sure FAA used to do them when it was owned over here in the UK.

For U.S. vehicles:
M2 half-track, with conversion parts for the 81mm MMC.
M3 scout car (already mentioned but another vote)
M10 tank destroyer – all variants, eg. Achilles and M36
M18 tank destroyer (again, another vote)

For British vehicles:
Valentine – with a conversion kit for the Archer
Sexton
Challenger

For German vehicles:
Panzer III

Yeah the later Panzer III's mit schurtzen would be good and I would deferentially buy those if they came out! 1/72 mind!

which is in the title duh!

I would buy 3 kits with two tanks per kit of:

-M8 GMC
-Chaffee
-SU-76
-Chi-Ha
-Italian Carro Armato tank with 47mm gun
-British Centurian for post WW2 (we'd buy 5 kits of these)
-British Crusader (even though I have dropped this from fave list due to discovery they all had engine issues)

Bonjour,

Humber Armoured Car Mk. IV
Humber Light Reconnaissance Car Mk. III
M3A1 White Scout Car
6pdr anti-tank gun
Loyd Carrier

Keep up the great work PSC!

Salutations du Canada,
François

Evening,

Well here's my first posting.

Churchill VII (With option to make Mk.VIII)
Sexton
Priest
Bishop
Valentine
17pdr Anti-Tank Gun
Heavy Weapons for British Infantry

All in 1/72nd of course.

BA64 armoured car
Churchill
Grille
M8/M20 armoured car

Add my votes for:
M18 TD
M5/M5A1 tank
Horsch staff car

I would also like some early war infantry but I understand that this may not be profitable compared to late war stuff.

P.S any plans to release late war Fallshrimjager or British Airborne?

Trucks! Bedfords, Opel Blitz, etc. Very useful for many games (even more so in BGK/O).

Conversions for Universal Carriers.

British Heavy Weapon box.

Tetrarchs. Not many kits out there, most are pricey resin kits from what I've seen.

A Pz.38t based kit with SPG conversions would be great too, many uses there from Early to Late war. I love the UM kits but they're too fiddly for wargaming.

Plastic Soldier here

Early war and all flavours of airborne are on the radar

Carrier conversion kit – aiming for Autumn

British Hvy weaps (and 15mm infantry) aiming Autumn too

Wave of softskins coming!!

and Pz 38t plus conversions

Add my votes for:
M18 TD
M5/M5A1 tank
Horsch staff car

Are you aware that they have just released M5A1 Stuart kits in both 15 mm and 1/72?

Hi Catman Are you likely to do the Hetzer if you intend doing the 38T?

Tetrarch, Humber scout car, M3A1 White scout car, Churchills and their variants, more British stuff, like Commando (a small conversion sprue with loads of heads and bergens for the basic infantry would be cool, or a separate set, but for the sake of anybody up there, please make enough basic Lee-Enfield carrying men as no sets on the market have a sufficient number of them to build a unit) and Airborne. Tanks and minis for Africa would be neat too, but firstly I'd say finishing the current late-war line is the best to do.

I just bought a lot of S models L3/33 twin machine gun and flame thrower

Would PSC or S models please, please bring out the early Italian tank M11/39

also a greater variety of Japanese WWII tanks and artillery.

Folks! Let's get co-ordinated here! Some solidarity, please! All of the items mentioned are manufactured by someone other than PSC. Let's concentrate our opinions on some of the desperately needed models not made by ANYONE!

@spontoon: Whatever you need, I bet you can find someone in Burma who makes that tank…we need the above items from PSC as we (or at least I) like what they do, find their manufacturing excellent, and their kits overall pleasant.

Of course I can find Tetrarchs by someone else, but I don't want metal or resin. I can get an M3A1 scout car from Italeri, but it's kinda rare here. I hope you understand.

Also, you've seen a pattern here with kits requested by many people, and some that are just by one or two of us. It's focused.

Hi CATMAN, has the Firefly came out yet for 72nd?

Wave of softskins coming!!

Out-freaking-standing! Because you can NEVER have enough softskins, and plastic makes them affordable in the quantities you need for 1:1 games.

I think we also need to get realistic. If PSC are going to prosper they need to ensure they have volume sales, ie something where you buy more than one box of, or if not that, something everyone buys one box of.

More soft skins are really good-a mixed sprue of jeeps,kubelwagons,with stowage,LMGs and CREW FIGURES etc would be nice.

How about a mixed scenery set,AT emplacements,ruins,roads, dragons teeth. However, WW2 normandy chaps are always! going on about the lack of scale bocage.

Edit. Bren carriers, in plastic would make my christmas.

PilGrim has it. There's not a lot of point trotting our individual wish-lists. PSC have to go for the high-volume stuff.

20mm Cromwells are coming. Good. Churchills are next. Also good. Softskins – please let them be Bedford QLTs, Studebaker 2 1/2 tonners, Russian Zis trucks and Opel Blitzes.

And the second commonest AFV in the Red Army, the SU76M.

However, there must still be some varients of German armour; that were made in minute numbers or never even left the drawing board; that models are unavailable for.

Hi CATMAN, has the Firefly came out yet for 72nd?

According to the PSC website, the Sherman V kit (with Firefly options) is likeyl to be released next week if everything goes fine.

Edit. Bren carriers, in plastic would make my christmas.

You mean something like this?

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Folks! Let's get co-ordinated here! Some solidarity, please! All of the items mentioned are manufactured by someone other than PSC. Let's concentrate our opinions on some of the desperately needed models not made by ANYONE!

If something is not available at all from other manufacturers, there might be sometimes be a commercial reason for that…

One or many purchases.

Anyone playing eary North Africa would buy a lot of Italian armour and early brit armour.

I purchased 12 boxes of S models L3/33 twin machine gun and flame thrower

Would PSC or S models please, please bring out the early Italian tank M11/39.

I could easily see me buy 5 to 10 boxes to be used as Italian tanks and as Aussie captured tanks.

I'm sure I'm not the only one.

You can find a Panther or Sherman in any shop so consumers have a lot of manufacurers to pick from, where as for some of the kits not yet produced, PSC or S models would be the only current supplier of that vehicle in plastic kit form, making it more commercially viable.

Not necessarily true.

German kit, particularity late war, has always been popular with with WW2 wargamers and modelers. If you ever open a copy of military modelling, it does seem to be late war Germans taking the spot light. Late war Western allies are also popular.

The other reason is the stuff like the Panther and the Tiger have recognisable names and are probably more known than any of the Italian kit. They are the ones seen in films and games so get more media coverage and are almost like a Brand name. This also helps them to sell more.

Early war stuff is fantastic and I really wish people would make more kits for the period but sadly I think it is unlikely as the market is not as strong as the late war gear!

Wow! Since I first posted my wish list a number of kits have come out that rendered it a moot point! Here's my original list for review:

1) Renault UE tracteur legere. Built in the thousands for the French Army and the most numerous AFV in Western Europe in 1940, captured by the Germans in abundance and used until the end of the war as a prime mover, weapons carrier, supply carrier, airfield towing vehicle, recce vehicle, anti-partisan vehicle, SP Pak 36 vehicle, rocket launcher vehicle, and built by the Romanians as the "Malaxa," the Renault UE really got around. Some even turned up in the French counter-insurgency effort in Indochine postwar.

2) Char B1bis. Iconic French heavy tank that gave the Germans some nasty encounters, captured examples were used by the Germans as gun tanks, Flammpanzers, and SP howitzer mounts. Flammpanzer B2(f) saw action in German service on the Eastern Front, in the Balkans, and during the fighting at Arnhem and afterwards against the Western Allies. Recaptured Char B1bis were also used by the Free French/FFI against the Germans until the end of the war.

3) Pzkpfw 38(t). This ubiquitous Czech light tank would serve for the Early War, Operation Barbarossa, and for the Hungarian Army as well. By producing the basic 38(t)chassis, all of the nifty SP gun variants can follow, including the Marders, the Hetzer, the Flakwagen, Munitionschlepper, et al.

4) T-28. This was THE Russian medium tank in service during Operation Barbarossa. Surviving examples soldiered on in Red Army combat service until 1943. The Finns used several captured T-28s until the end of the war.

So. The Panzer 38(t) is now available from Pegasus, two to a box and at a great price, while the Char B1bis is available as a prepainted plastic that includes the original WW2 tank ace Capitaine Pierre Billotte's "Eure," THE char responsible for single-handed slaughtering a baker's dozen of German panzers and two anti-tank guns in a single engagement during the Battle of Stonne in May 1940.

So that leaves the T-28 and the Renault Tracteur Legere UE, both of which I still stand by as perfect subjects for a fast build plastic kit.

As for my new wish list items in this format, I now ask for the following:

1) Hotchkiss Char Legere H35. This was the principle light tank of the 1e and 2e DLMs that fought so hard and well during the French Campaign May-June 1940. The only fast build plastic kit available in 1/72 scale is a very hard to find and expensive model from RPM. While S-Model has released an excellent Hotchkiss H38/39 kit complete with unditching tail, the physical differences between the H35 and the later H38/39 are distinctive, and IMHO the H35 merits being made available in this format. I for one would want at least 20 models, and the especially garish multi-color camouflage patterns found on the H35s along with their elaborate unit markings and such makes them a really fun model building project in their own right:

2) The SOMUA S35 Char de Cavalrie. The second crucial tank for the elite French cavalry divisions of the 1940 Campaign, the SOMUA S35 soldiered on in both French and Axis service after the Armistice. The Germans used them for anti-partisan duties, and sold a number to their Italian allies as company command vehicles, while the French used them in North Africa in 1943 against the DAK(!). Again, the garish camo specs of the French cavalry tanks alone makes for some excellent model building projects, and right now other than a somewhat hard to get die cast and plastic composite or the old now thoroughly dated and still fiddly Heller kit, there's no fast build kit in this scale in hard plastic:

So there it is, my updated wish list for hard plastic fast build kits in 1/72 scale. I'd also love to see a French truck of some sort in this format given the German habit of appropriating French trucks and sending them East…

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

Lots of French trucks in resin. What we need are affordable T35's!

{quote]Lots of French trucks in resin

(1) I'm rather allergic to most resin used in such models, and (2) the price points per resin model are often twice what one would pay for a fast build hard plastic kit, and (3) I agree with you on an affordable T35, just so long as the more numerous *T-28* gets made first!

Besides, who doesn't want their German soldats to ride into Operation Barbarossa in style:

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

ahh I love French tanks!!!!!!

Since this thread appears to be somewhat still alive – Stug III Ausf B in 1/72. They were crawling around Stalingrad like ticks! Might be a tough sell since Zvezda makes a nice and cheap one in 15mm. That said, the existing Stug IIIF/Panzer III undercarriage could be used with only a new top and gun. Maybe just a conversion kit?

A T-34/76 STZ variant would be most welcome too