| Cornelius | 01 Feb 2019 3:42 a.m. PST |
I have just been building the PSC 231 armoured car set – three vehicles but none bodies, so six are spare. It struck me that I could make some "dug in" versions with these. Anyone done it already, or just have some thoughts? |
| deephorse | 01 Feb 2019 5:26 a.m. PST |
I haven't done it, but looking at the parts a very dug in 233 and 231 should be possible. |
| Andy ONeill | 01 Feb 2019 5:39 a.m. PST |
If you made a mould of a wheel you could maybe build some lower parts of plasticard.
Build some extra full models. Quite a common thing for large scale modellers, wheel moulds. |
| Cornelius | 01 Feb 2019 9:05 a.m. PST |
Andy, interesting idea but probably a bit beyond me. |
| Martin Rapier | 01 Feb 2019 9:45 a.m. PST |
I've bodged up a few conversions on all the spare hulls which PSC provide for their various models. I also made up some AA guns from spare gun barrels in some of the artillery sets. Great fun, it has re-kindled my interest in plastic modelling. |
mysteron  | 02 Feb 2019 2:17 a.m. PST |
You could use perhaps one or two as wrecked vehicles and use them as objective markers. |
| Lion in the Stars | 02 Feb 2019 11:50 a.m. PST |
If you mean, making dug-in troops from the spare crew bodies, shouldn't be too hard. *glue the half-crew body to a base.
*build up some ground around the half-crew using your usual basing methods.
*Paint the area around the 'foxhole' a very dark brown to force the perspective.
*Paint the rest of the base to match your usual forces. |
| Andy ONeill | 02 Feb 2019 1:07 p.m. PST |
In the sdkfz231 set you get the options for several different marks per sprue. A single set of wheels and "bottom" but 3 decks.
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| Cornelius | 02 Feb 2019 3:14 p.m. PST |
I like the idea of wrecks as obective markers. |
| Lion in the Stars | 03 Feb 2019 3:28 p.m. PST |
If you are talking about making extra lower hulls, it shouldn't be too hard to resin-cast the lower hull and then glue the spare upperworks to them. |
| Grumble87106 | 05 Feb 2019 10:21 a.m. PST |
I'm working on how to do this with the A-9 tanks from PSC -- especially if I convert a lot of the original complete model to A-10. Years ago I cast Airfix Bren Carrier tracks in low relief and then built balsa and cardboard bodies in various versions. The A-9 tracks would be bigger and trickier, but I'm still going to try it sometime. At least I won't have to build the upper body from balsa and cardboard! ;-) |
