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Minairons new Vickers 105mm Gun

Posted by Lluis of Minairons on 14 May 2016, 16:17

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We have now available the Vickers 105mm Gun as a separate model kit including its carriage. Model itself is made mostly of resin, with some white metal parts, as you can see below:

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It is already available at Minairons website, and hopefully soon from our main retailers and distributors too.

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Lluís
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Posted by Wiking on 15 May 2016, 19:21

I think this is the first nice kit of a Vickers 105mm gun. But I am not a gun expert.
Especially the wheels look fine.

Let me please say some words to your racing car line.
First of all it is a great idea to do something like that.
This is a gap in 1/72 you fill it in my opinion. Beside all that helicpoter, planes, tanks, ships etc.
Last year I build two racing scene Dio to the end of 1930.
Pictures you can show in Gallery.
"The race is on" and "Cross the finish line". There I use one military woman figure of another small subject that you nicely cover too.

Your racing cars look great in shape.
There are some things who are improveable I think.
The windshild is as the steering wheel in one pice with the body !!!
One curverd slit there the windshild sould be. A pice of clear platic to cut. Make a 1:1 size in your instructon. The steering wheel seperate of metal or resine.
I see clearely that your whole range is just a few parts per kit. Easy assembly is written.
The diver look so stiff. If I look at your figure range of the spanish civil war you have a wide and realy nice options of poses and different uniforms! I like that.
But why no different drivers? As an example one who sit close behind the windshild for the long strait.
One who hang a little bit outside in a turn (dogfight). One who sit lazy in the cocpit.
The wheels with the spokes are in one pice. Why no etched spokes and the wheels in resine?
Could be the wight of the car a problem for the etched spokes? Because I was playing with the idea to drill out the resine one. Replace it with one from Eduard WW1 plane wheel set.

Please see this text as an improvement from someon who build racing car scenes.
I like what you do and looking forward to see the fourth car of this line.
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