"Any word on a plastic 251D from Warlord?" Topic

I am primarily a late war guy, and have decided to go 1/56 with my minis. I prefer plastics, and prefer the 251D to the earlier models, especially for my late war LSSAH unit.

To that end, before I drop a lot of money on resin and metal models, has anyone heard of any plans in the next year or so for a plastic 1/56 251D? From any company?

There is one without bases cast on from JTFM. Scroll down to about the middle of the page and you'll see the Sdkfz 251/D and variants of it for $25 USD:

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As you can see they have both the Ausf C and D versions. The advantage of 1/56 compared to 1/48 is that there's a wider range of models available and they're easier to build.

1/56 is expanding rapidly, but still not sure there are more 1/56 scale models than 1/48th, since many plastic kits are available in the larger scale.

There are now significantly more models in 1/56 than 1/48 now. Not the case maybe 4-5 years ago, but it's why I sold my limited 1/48 vehicles and switched to 1/56 for 28mm figures.

…has anyone heard of any plans in the next year or so for a plastic 1/56 251D? From any company?

No, to my knowledge all 1/56 models come in resin. They're all 'easy build' models, not detailed polystyrene kits like the 1/48 models released from Tamiya, Hobbyboss, or AFV Club.

I have not heard of any plans from any company on doing 1/56 vehicles in plastic. Unless you can talk PSC or Warlord into releasing kits in plastic for 28mm, but I doubt they will.

And despite the prevalence and popularity of 1/56, I'm sticking to my guns with 1/48. I have a ton of beautifully painted 1/48 vehicles for my American, German, Russian and British forces that cost me a small fortune. Some were even converted, like my Jagdpanzer IV's which utilized resin Gaso.Line conversion kits for the now retired Tamiya 1/48 PZIV Ausf J kit.

And I recently bought Tank Workshop resin conversion kits to convert a few of my Tamiya Panther Ausf G's into Ausf A variants with zimmeritt.

I guess old habits die hard, since my very first '28mm' gaming models were pre-assembled 1/43 – 1/50 clunky diecast Solido/Verem toys with oversize linked tracks. Back then 28mm WWII was still in its infancy and the only rules available was Easy Eight Enterprise's Battleground WWII system.