"20mm Vehicles - Quality Manufacturers" Topic
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ccmatty | 01 Sep 2014 1:03 p.m. PST |
I have decided to drop into the 20mm realm. Going to order some AB Brits and Germans. Can the regulars on this board help recommend to me some quality manufacturers of 20mm vehicles (tanks, half-tracks, armored cars, etc.). I am a little torn between the plastic kits and resin. I would prefer to spend less time cleaning an building the kits. Also, for manufacturers like Blitzkrieg Miniatures, who makes the crew options? I know AB makes some. Are there others? Lastly, I would like to find a German 88 AA gun in 20mm. Does anyone make one? Thanks for all the help in advance. |
pzivh43 | 01 Sep 2014 1:35 p.m. PST |
The new PSC kits are very nice, and go together much easier than the older Italeri, ESCI, etc., kits. Definitely worht a look. Pegasus and Armourfast also good. For resin/metal, the old Britannia ones are still pretty nice (sold now by Grubby Tanks in UK---who is a great guy and does a super job). |
Black Bull | 01 Sep 2014 2:54 p.m. PST |
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Bede19025 | 01 Sep 2014 2:58 p.m. PST |
I have an Sdkfz 250 from Blitzkrieg Miniatures. All I'll say is it looked a lot better in the photo online then it does in person. |
Ditto Tango 2 9 Echo | 01 Sep 2014 3:04 p.m. PST |
Attention: My opinion! I am sorry to say this, but be very, very careful of PSC. They have a lot of good kits, but they also have a number of stinkers. They make a lot of very simple mistakes in some of their kits that really are really deflating to see once you open it up. Everything from grooves way too deep to just badly done, all wrapped up in the excuse of "it's just for wargaming". I don't dare say which kits I've found, I just suggest look for reviews of models in which you are interested from MODELLING sites and not wargamer blogs which tend to be easily pleased, i.e. going on about how a "Panzer IV H" with a starboard antenna trough, enourmous muzzle brake and blatantly wrong split TC hatch is just amazing. Sorry if that offends anyone and I'm not going to get into a fussing match over it. DDT |
Ben Lacy | 01 Sep 2014 3:05 p.m. PST |
I have been a 20mm collector for years, but I went to the 1:72 scale ready-made models of Dragon Armor and Hobby Master. They are rather expensive now, but they are superb. link I forgot to mention Panzerstahl. Check out this 88. Ben |
John de Terre Neuve | 01 Sep 2014 3:10 p.m. PST |
Have recently built 4 different 20 mm forces, for vehicles I would really recommend PSC, extremely fast build and very nice detailing. I agree that Pegasus and Armourfast although a little less detailed are even faster builds and very good value. I have several metal models, but they are variable, they are a little more difficult to assemble, ditto for the resin models. I will use them but only if what I want is unavailable in plastic. The other plastic models are for modellers, they are nice but are a lot of work to assemble (sometimes 50+ pieces). You mentioned that you want it easy, go with PSC, AF and Pegasus. Zvezda makes an 88. John ps can not go wrong with AB for the troops! |
PiersBrand | 01 Sep 2014 5:21 p.m. PST |
Just for balance… I rather like PSC kits, but then im biased! I have helped with reviewing the renders lately, so judge for ye self…
You may want to ask here too… Www.guildwargamers.com Its a 20mm ww2 forum mainly with tons of images… |
trikefj | 09 Sep 2014 7:28 a.m. PST |
Well, What is 20mm? It generally covers Small 1/76 models to oversized 1/72 in vehicles, and god knows what in figures! from virtual skinny 1/87 figures in undersized 1/76, through matchboxes short tubby 1/76 to giants of 1/72 and beyond eg Valiant, and dont forget the old foot to eye measurement as well. Skytrex made their universal carriers so large so as to fit the overly large metal figures around at the time of design, so they were far too wide and long for any scale. |
fozzybear | 29 Sep 2014 11:54 a.m. PST |
Some of the new Italeri quick build kits are quite nice and easy to build too, S-models are very nice, especially the tracks but are still very detail intensive in areas. most of what I've seen from PSC are nice and paint up well. |
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