I recently obtained a new kit from AFV Club, their new Schwimmwagen Type 128.
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This is I think a first time release. Don't quote me though.
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Reading Schiffer's book the Kubelwagen and Schwimmwagen Part 2, you can follow an interesting development to this fascinating little vehicle. Originally a young designer Hannes Trippel worked on designing an amphibious vehicle. It caught the eye of the Wehrmacht. It seems a 1000 of his 2SG design were built. Meanwhile Professor Porsche saw a great potential here and started his own design. It resulted in the Type 128. From what I can fins it seems only around 30 were built. They were successful though and the Wehrmacht commissioned him to further develop the model. This resulted in the one probably most know to us and the one most modeled, the Type 166. So you could build this model and a Type 166 and have a nice father son vignette. The Type 166 was a bit smaller and thinner by the way.
The kit consist of four sprues crisply cast. One sheet of PE, a sheet of decals and 5 rubber tires. It looks like it should fit together well and thankfully it isn't full of extra tiny over engineered parts. If anything is questionable I would say it is the tires. They have a hub molded in and I think it will take careful cutting to remove.The instructions show them as being hollow so I don't get why they are like they are.
Here are the sprues.
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The Tires
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The instructions. Well laid out and easy to follow.
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Altogether this looks like a nice easy kit of a significant vehicle. With four colour options, two of them Schwartz Grau, and two in camouflage with units, time , and places, you can make a very interesting scene.
My thanks to my wallet, currently undergoing triage for excessive bleeding.
James
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This is I think a first time release. Don't quote me though.
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Reading Schiffer's book the Kubelwagen and Schwimmwagen Part 2, you can follow an interesting development to this fascinating little vehicle. Originally a young designer Hannes Trippel worked on designing an amphibious vehicle. It caught the eye of the Wehrmacht. It seems a 1000 of his 2SG design were built. Meanwhile Professor Porsche saw a great potential here and started his own design. It resulted in the Type 128. From what I can fins it seems only around 30 were built. They were successful though and the Wehrmacht commissioned him to further develop the model. This resulted in the one probably most know to us and the one most modeled, the Type 166. So you could build this model and a Type 166 and have a nice father son vignette. The Type 166 was a bit smaller and thinner by the way.
The kit consist of four sprues crisply cast. One sheet of PE, a sheet of decals and 5 rubber tires. It looks like it should fit together well and thankfully it isn't full of extra tiny over engineered parts. If anything is questionable I would say it is the tires. They have a hub molded in and I think it will take careful cutting to remove.The instructions show them as being hollow so I don't get why they are like they are.
Here are the sprues.
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The Tires
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The instructions. Well laid out and easy to follow.
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Altogether this looks like a nice easy kit of a significant vehicle. With four colour options, two of them Schwartz Grau, and two in camouflage with units, time , and places, you can make a very interesting scene.
My thanks to my wallet, currently undergoing triage for excessive bleeding.
James