MiniArt is adding to the list of soft skin vehicles available on the market today. The modeller has gone from having a very limited choice of soft skins to a host of injection moulded kits of late and this looks to be another great addition.

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This is a really nice one.. I love all these softskins... where were they a few years ago when I was still doing mainly WWII stuff?

I think I'll still get one, though

Hisham

Damn another to add to the stash. This one looks great, might be a definate.

Thanks Darren

Nice.. I do like this type.
And it slightly hints at the possibility of more variants in the future.

I have to admit that one has great appeal and a number of options.

looks like a really nice kit and different which is what I like but I think MiniArt goes too far to make their kits overly detailed just look at pieces 13 thru 17 on photo #9, will those pieces even be seen on the kit once primer, paint and washes are applied and lets not forget the carpet monster

What a great looking truck. The kit looks to be excellent. This is the sort of thing we could only dream about just a few years ago. Think of the conversion possibilities. Can't wait to get one. Or six.

Me want!

Sal I understand your concerns but you know as well as I that some will want the detail included and it is left to the user to decide if thet want to include it or not.

SWEET!

So... Does anyone know whether 1) any of these went to the DAK and Africa, and / or 2) were converted to 2cm flak trucks of the sort we (I) have seen/done with that old Tamiya Horch kit?

A newer, more up-to-date kit of the general type could open LOTS of possibilities!

Yeah... We armor / WWII types are in a Golden Age indeed!

Bob

Bob, take a look at the photos on this page: valka.cz Crew certainly look to be wearing tropical helmets. Then the bottom photo is stated to be in Tunis.

Sal, there's no doubt that some tiny parts are more or less impractical in terms of getting the mould lines cleaned off and trimming the item successfully off the sprue; it can often be much easier creating such parts from stock rod or similar (which has no mould lines or attachment points), but using the kit's moulded component as your guide. Then again, as Darren suggests, some parts can just be left off if they're not really visible.

Here's some pics.. and a colour template that says with Rommel's Afrika Corps in Libyan desert.

http://www.german.o5m6.de/mercedes_1500A.html

Hisham

Matt L. & Hisham;

Thanks for posting those pics! Now that DAK use of the mbl1500A is established, now I need a photo showing one wearing a 2cm gun, and I'll be set to GO!

PS: The first Valka.CZ pic certainly appears to be a rep of a DAK vehicle - and it's towing one of those "squeeze-bore" 2.8cm SPzB 41 guns on that tiny cart... just as kitted by Bronco! How cool!

Bob

AWESOME!

This one looks like a huge improvement over the ICM version and also the Tamiya Steyr version. I'm planning to grab an extra one or two of these to see if I can mate the Tamiya kit to one of these.

As far as a DAK 2cm version goes while I can't provide photographic proof of one there's definitely enough anecdotal evidence to support the concept.

There's a photo around ( I'll try to hunt it out later ) of a 1500 that is fully armoured and mounting a 2cm FlaK 38 but it's hard to tell if it's a Mercedes or a Steyr as you can only see the wheels of the original vehicle ( it's also not DAK ).

There's also photos of a Sonderkommando Dora Steyr 1500A mounting the 2cm KWK 38 + MG34 mount from an Sd.Kfz.222 and of course the photos of a Horch 1a with a 2cm FlaK 30 and another with a FlaK 38 so enough to suggest that sticking a 2cm in the back of these types of vehicles wasn't uncommon.