Desperate Defense - Panzerkampfwagen 35H 734(f)
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31 1 March 2023, 03:38
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Looking great already! I never saw an RPM kit built before so thanks also for showing us what a nice model this is. 🙂
5 March 2023, 09:36
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Thank you Mona and Neil! Just posted some new pictures. RPM does seem to have a lot of nice early war French, Polish, and German tanks to build. I chose this kit not knowing anything about the company but wanted a captured H35/39 and didn't want to have to deal with buying a separate decal sheet and have been very impressed. The kit also comes with the H39's longer gun, a different commander cupola, and a tail like the FT-17's which also appeared on this tank, but I chose not to add it since it would take up a lot of space.
5 March 2023, 19:36
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Thank you very much for this extra information JC. I also had not seen the Orion resin figures before, but thought they looked great, so went online shopping for some. None to buy anywhere I could find. Just hundreds of boxes of polythene figs. Drives me nuts that that soft, bendy and unworkable figures in 1/72 are available for just about every war ever fought since about 2000BC, but almost no-one sees fit to make them in hard plastic or resin. Honorable exception for Preiser, but even these are hard to find and expensive. Grumbles over, I think your dio is looking great! 🙂
5 March 2023, 21:01
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Thanks, appreciate it. Speaking of polythene problems, one of my friends bought a box of landsknechts where their lances were all drooping about 20 degrees down. It was pretty funny at the time but now it's just a waste of plastic unfortunately. Thankfully WW2 soldiers don't have any lances to ruin their sculpts with lol.
5 March 2023, 22:55
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Haha. Yes I guess medieval and ancient modellers must be even more frustrated!
5 March 2023, 23:02
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After thinking about it some I'm going to go back and redo the weathering as best I can, just looking at some of the other models and dioramas here on the site made me dissatisfied with the quality of my work.
11 March 2023, 04:28
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Thanks Łukasz, definitely feeling better about the dio than the model at this point lol. Everything will look nice (or even better) once I start putting it all together I think.
13 March 2023, 22:03
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First to Fight released such Hotchkiss lately I think, but it would be much harder to open it up, usually the hull is a single piece in their kits.
Keep it up 👍
13 March 2023, 22:07
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I agree they're definitely good quality. I'm going to be putting 1 or 2 animals in my next few dioramas to add some more flavor.
15 March 2023, 21:55
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The paired dios look great next to each other JC.. Looking forward to seeing your next one!
20 March 2023, 00:47
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Thank you Rui and Neil 😄 I've gotten started on my next diorama but it's going to be a while before I really get anywhere with it, a lot of building to do and I'm still figuring out if the layout will even work.
20 March 2023, 03:47
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Thanks, and I have to agree Łukasz, it definitely looked pretty rough for a little bit there.
20 March 2023, 21:37
Album info
The out-of-date Hotchkiss H35, it's crew, and a group of volkssturm await an impending Allied attack in a German town near the Rhine.