"LEFH18 105mm Howitzer reviewed" Topic

I just put up a short review of Armourfast's 105mm German howitzer on my blog. link

Enjoy!

Thanks for the build tip. I bought this set and haven't started it yet.

Looks pretty decent. Not sure I am wild it about it having the spoked wheels. Where abouts in the 1/72 size "spectrum" do the crew fall – it always annoyed me how incredibly tall the gunners are in the Revell German artillery set…?

Hornswoggler
The horse drawn version, with spoked wheels, was by far the most common version.

The figures are 24mm according to the Plastic Soldier Review. The Revell ones were 25mm. Caesar does a nice set of Artillery crew which measure in at 24mm to build up those sets which don't give enough crew.

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And the good thing is more than half of the figures are handling shells. Most manufacturers forget that the main job of gunners is to feed the guns.

Fatman

The figures are about right for 24mm and fit the later Italeri Afrika Korps figures I have which are also on the higher end of the spectrum for size.

Like Fatman says, this is the early model. As with other German guns, the designator shows the year it was first deployed to the troops. In this case, 1918. So it is no surprise that it has spoked wheels. If you are worried about sturdiness, you should not worry. The wheels are quite strong.

John

Wasn't questioning the Accuracy of the spoked wheels just my own preference would be to have the later solid wheels. The Revell set had these but was ruined by a) the size (and weird basketballer-like proportions) of the crew and b) one of the soft plastic guns being moulded with the split trail closed in towing position.