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Wednesday, April 08, 2015 - 04:40 AM UTC
Italeri has announced a new kit in collaboration with Warlord Games, at the unusual modelling scale of 1/56. A nice addition to a series that already had a Sherman, Cromwell, Panther and Puma.
The model represents a Late variant of the Tiger I, and includes decals for Schwere Panzer Abteilungen 504 and 508, both in Italy. It is marketed as “easy assembly”, and looking at the sprues it really seems so!

The road train is moulded in one piece for each side, and tracks are of the type link& length having only 4 parts per track, a very simple approach for a quick build.

One figure (without legs) is included also.
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Doesn't look like a bad little kit,would like to have a close up of the zimmerit and see how it's moulded. Pity that there is no photo etch engine grills about in that scale.
APR 08, 2015 - 05:43 AM
Hmm. Symmetric outlet grilles. An idler that's halfway between the large and small types. No engine heater port. One rear mudguard with openings the wrong way around. I won't be buying this for accuracy. David
APR 08, 2015 - 12:21 PM
Nice addition in a scale that is attractive to many wargames players. Nice to see Italeri thinking a bit out of the box.
APR 08, 2015 - 12:23 PM
1/56 is a hot scale these past few years. I'm amazed how in the age of the internet, with all the digital media, table top gaming is bigger than ever. That's good, because people meet face to face and, socialize, and it's probably good for the hobby too. There are consistent accuracy and sculpting issues in the scale though, mostly in the figures being modeled in that weird squat style. Still, most war-gamers are not "rivet counters," and most are happy with vehicles that give a decent general impression of the real thing.
APR 08, 2015 - 05:29 PM
Some of the 1/56th (28mm) vehicles and figures are really very good. I've just got into this scale with Napoleonics. Many of the figures are (HARD) styrene, arguably the best from this company: http://www.perry-miniatures.com/ They only do two WWII sets (at the moment)- Desert Rats and Afrika Korps: Worth checking out for something different!
APR 09, 2015 - 02:47 PM
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