"New South African vehicles from Brigade." Topic

Latest new from the Brigade blog, some great looking items as usual but i am really taken by the new Hippo truck and i would love to see a heavy tarp stretched over struts made to fit on the back of it. :) zac

To follow up the recent release of the South African Rhino and Wildebeest, I've been working on some additional vehicles. I've remodelled the popular Buffel APC from the old range and beefed it up substantially – it now shares the same wheels as the Rhino and Wildebeest and could easily accommodate a full squad of infantry. It can be fitted with a cupola-mounted MG, or the roof turret ring will also take either of the secondary turrets from the Wildebeest's forward mount.

The other new model is the Hippo truck, which hasn't been made in 15mm before. I've started with the basic design of the 6mm version, and added lots of detail.

We've already had the new hulls for these two printed and they look great. I've been able to reuse lots of parts from the Rhino and Wildebeest, so all that's needed to get these in production is moulds for the resin hulls – they should be out sometime towards the back end of September.

Damn, I need to get around to placing an order as soon as all this is available. It is quite difficult with everything that is being released by all the different vendors.

The hippo looks good, would it be possible for you to make a fuel tank to go on the back of it?

YES! A fuel tank, an ambulance body, a crane with tool boxes and other fitter's accessories, optional cargo loads like ammunition containers for small arms and tanks or artillery.

Already have those in 6mm so I imagine Brigade will scale them up :)

You could use a old plastic disposable tablet bottle for a fuel tank they are normally oval in shape, simply cut off the neck of the bottle which would be fixed to the back of the cab end of the truck and your good to go.