Euromodelismo 172

El motivo de este año no puede ser más carrero, un Pz. IV. su tripulación y los sufridos infantes que viajan encima. Se puede uno preguntar cómo una ¡dea tan manida al final se hace con el premio absoluto. Quizá sea por algo tan sencillo como la expresividad. Este mismo autor el año pasado nos sorprendió con una locomotora blindada alemana, pintada con una técnica muy peculiar que nos producía la impresión de que reproducía hasta la carbonilla de las chimeneas. Unas buenas figuras completaban el trabajo. Este año, Phil Stutcinskas se ha percatado de que los personajes tenían que tener tanto protagonismo como la máquina, y que el resto, carro incluido, debería ser el marco, mientras que el cuadro, o sea los protagonistas, eran las personas.El objetivo lo ha cumplido con creces, la composición y la interrelación de las figuras son de una perfecta conjunción, mucha transformación y modelado para llegar a esta solución, ya que la pintura gótica y algo tenebrísta resulta de una espectacularidad sobrecogedora. El grupo de figuras impresiona. donde ni una sola cara tiene la misma expresión.

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Scale Aviation Modeller International Vol.5 Issue 11

Great hopes for this lightweight fighter, for which orders in excess of 3,000 machines had been placed, were held by the Italian leadership when it first flew in late 1942, after the success of earlier models. Plans were also afoot for Italy's allies in the Axis pact, Germany and Japan, to begin building the SAI403 in large numbers. As it was mostly of wooden construction, the carpentry industry, thus far under-used in war production, could be utilised to build it without detracting from the production of all-metal aircraft. However, its career was curtailed by the Italian surrender in 1943, before it saw service, and as a result the type has 'disappeared' from the World War 2 aircraft listings. The parts are supplied in a small plastic bag in a rather tatty box and are not very inspiring. The beige resin mouldings contain a lot of flash and require cleaning up before construction can begin.

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Steel Masters No.88

A l'origine envisagée comme tenue de travail ou de corvée, mais certainement pas comme uniforme de base dédié au combat, la tenue Herringbone Twill en deux pièces distinctes (veste et pantalon) sera pourtant pratiquement de toutes les batailles engagées par le Marine Corps au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Elle habille ainsi pour la première fois en nombre significatif, les fusiliers marins lors de la reconquête de l'atoll de Tarawa. Taillé dans un tissu à trames de chevrons au dessin distinct de celui de I'US Army (Cf Bibliographie page suivante), ce nouvel uniforme fut cependant remis en cause par les autorités supérieures du Corps, particulièrement lors des combats qui se déroulèrent su Betio. En effet au cours et peu après leur débarquement, les Marines pris sous le feu intense des défenseurs japonais, s'allégèrent rapidement en se débrêlant de leur paquetage afin d'éviter de couler ou pour accroître leur mobilité. Ainsi ne conservaientils que leur armement munitions et nourriture que les quelques poches de leur veste et pantalon HBT pouvaient contenir. Afin d'accroitre cette capacité d'emport, une nouvelle tenue sera envisagée, aboutissant à la création du modèle 1944.

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Verlinden Modeling Magazine Vol.9 No.1

The officer seen here wears reversible winter trousers and a camouflage tunic over his field blouse. The red piping on his cap indicates an artillery branch officer. Research indicates that the Wehrmacht came up with a wide variety of non-issue uniform items cut from the Splittermuster fabric, from capes to overalls to complete tanker uniforms. This officer is thus depicted, wearing a 1944 pattern jacket with flat pockets and no epaulettes. His Y-strap field harness is the canvas version, originally intended for tropical use but widely distributed in European theaters after 1943 due to leather shortages. They are easily identified by the stitched overlays on his chest straps. His Ml931 bread bag and Ml931 field flask are suspended from his pistol belt and worn outside the winter trousers, as is his sidearm. Most of the conversion centers around the waist. The Panzerjaeger Ostfront wears the large reversible smock over his trousers, so the figure's waist is a part of the upper torso. I positioned his legs and the torso from 861 next to a completed figure to achieve the proper height, and began filling the gap at his waist with discarded resin molding carriers. (When you cut those things off, save a few!) After firmly glueing with superglue, I began to pack Milliput around the waist, using nothing more than my hands and a wet paintbrush.

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