Thursday 14 August 2014

Murderous Marder musings

The arms race that is Little Cold Wars continues.  As I intend building a West German (remember them?) force and I didn't want the infantry to be walking everywhere, you may imagine that I was pleased to discover the availability of this 1/48 scale kit of a Marder IFV.  Pleased that was, until I started to build one.  This is a Kitech motorised kit and it is a horror.  Some of the parts go together nicely.  But only some.  The rest, including the hull top and rear plate needed a lot of wedging in place while the glue dried.  And then there were the wheels - lots of them.  All of the road wheels needed to be drilled out in order to fit on the stub axles while the sprockets and idlers required the intervention of a hammer to fit onto their steel rod axles.
Open this box at your own risk!

While the kit was a complete bugger to build, it does at least look OK when complete.  All I need to do now is paint enough infantry to fill them!
Speaking of infantry - or rather Panzer Grenadiers - here they are again.  See also my earlier post.
Only another 24 figures to paint then.....

10 comments:

Pete. said...

Very nice Tim- where did you source them from btw? Could do with a few myself....

Cheers,

Pete.

Paul Foster said...

I seem to remember a wise soul mentioning Kitech in a less than happy experience.

They look the job at any rate. Nice one.

tradgardmastare said...

They look great and well worth your effort...

Brian Carrick said...

I don't think I could trust myself near such a kit with a hammer, your forbearance does you proud sir!

Best wishes, Brian

Tim Gow said...

Pete
I'll post some links to suppliers on the Little Cold Wars Yahoo Group.

Tim Gow said...

Paul Foster
I had your dire warnings ringing in my ears as I opened the box!

Tim Gow said...

tradgardmastare
An arduous journey but a worthwhile destination? I think so.

Tim Gow said...

Brian Carrick
Believe me - other uses for the hammer were contemplated!

Geordie an Exiled FoG said...

Big is beautiful Time

PS Any sign of a 1/1200 Naval Fletcher Pratt?

Tim Gow said...

Geordie
I can run a F-P game with a couple of weeks notice. When can you make it? I'll drop you an email.