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Bling for Vehicles

PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:12 am
by HOBO
Well maybe not Bling so much as necessary accessories for adding that little bit of 'jazz' to our Tanks.
Some of you may know I'm beginning an Armoured Company or Armoured Battlegroup army, and this is besides me building 3 Inquisition themed Super-Heavy Tanks - 1 for each Ordo.
I've been browsing through the Web for some accessories to add to the Tanks to make them stand out a bit. I see that Tamiya do Sandbags, and Italeri have some great looking kits with various bits in them. I'd love to find some sort of ready-made Camo Blankets, as they'd look great on the Baneblades.

Do any of you lot use the Sandbags or Italeri kits, and are they plastic or resin?
Can you suggest some that you yourselves use?
Cheers!

PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:57 am
by estarriol
The Tamiya and Italeri stuff is hardplastic.

Tamiya do/did sets of stowage for trucks etc that might provide some extra options for you.

PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:58 am
by chromedog
The Italeri (and Tamiya, btw) are injection moulded styrene plastic like GW model kits, only with better detail, oh and not ridiculously over-scaled, just of a thinner plastic

There's also a mob that do resin pieces for 1/35 scale tanks and dioramas. Can't remember their name at the moment. Aha, Verlinden. They do brass bits as well.

I've used the italeri kits on a tamiya 1/35 scale M-1A1 and they look quite good. I've used dyed compression bandages for camo netting (rolled and tied with "butcher's string").

PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:09 pm
by HOBO
Thanks People, sounds exactly like what I'm after. The prices on the Italeri stuff is brilliant compared to comparative GW and FW products, and you get 8 times more bits....brilliant.

Ah, compressed Bandages aye. What a great idea. I'll do some experimenting. I did see some Camo Netting kit on the www. but it was from the US, but I don't want to buy enough to warrant meeting their minimum Sales figure, which is pretty steep.
I have found a shop in N.Z. that sells the beforementioned Kits, but not the Camo unfortunately, and they don't have a minimum buy plus our $ is stronger against their $ so it'll be a real bargain in the end.

Cheers!