My obsession with pitiful Panzers continues. This time it's the wholly inadequate Panzer I Auf B. It has everything you want in an early war tank, or rather it doesn't. Armour you can poke a stick through, weapons only really good against soft skinned targets and a crew of two one to drive the beast and one to do everything else. On the plus side they had a reputation for reliability and as long as you kept them away from proper grown up tanks they were a useful recce asset and could work as a mobile pill box.
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| The mighty Panzer 1 Auf B |
Still they are quite cute in a strange sort of way and would probably have put the fear of God into the Home Guard if Operation Sealion had actually happened.
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| The entire Pz1 force, I mean how many do you really need? |
Castings are from Heroics & Ros in 1/300th scale so closer to 5mm than 6mm but at 75p per vehicle the price is smaller than average too.
They have turned out well. I like the labels on the base, they look very neatly done.
ReplyDeleteThe labels are printed using MS paint and glued to the back of the base with school type thin PVA. They help my old eyes tell what the various vehicles are from a distance. I do the same for my 6mm DBA bases.
DeleteExcellent light cavalry is expect. In answer to your (rhetorical?) question, I’d say ‘swarms’.
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