INCOMING..... Neo Soviet Easter Egg from Khurasan

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I love Soviet kit, so it's a great news that Jon at Khurasan has finally released some really tasty Neo-Soviet armour in the form of this multi-variant  TTC-2400 Nova Respublik Main Battle Tank.

The model is $13.99 and includes all the parts required to make any one of the variants pictured above. Which is great. I love the Red Eagle variant but the clean and simple 'just rolled off a workers factory lines in Nova Stalingrad' look of the Red Banner really appeals.

Now this is what a Neo-Sov tank should look like. The design pronounces that the Nova Respublik MBT has a clear Soviet tank heritage going back to the JS family and beyond.

I'd promised myself  "No more Sci Fi tanks" but when it comes to the TC-2400 Nova Respublik MBT my self-discipline is shattered. The TC-2400 Nova Respublik MBT is available now and very, very definitely on my 'Must Have' list.

На здоровье!

Mark 
  

GZG 15mm Rommel III MBT

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GZG's new releases including the Rommel III MBT should be up on the webstore now.

GZG 15mm Sci Fi
Rommel III MBT

There's something about the Rommel that grabs me. I see it more as an automated tank rather than a manned one and can envision a fleet of them on my desert tabletop. It looks ruthless, efficient and most definitely Harkonnen.

Cheers
Mark
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Rebel Minis - 15mm Merka 5 MBT REVIEW

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I'm not renowned as a fan of tracks in my Sci Fi armies. I'm a Grav man. But you know, something about Rebel Minis new Merka 5 Medium Tank spoke to me and I'm glad it did.

Rebel Minis: 15mm Sci Fi Merka 5

MAEFV6 for $11.95

The Merka 5 is a very tasty Post Modern-Futuristic model tank that deserves a place in my 15mm armoury. In fact a whole platoon of them!

The Merka only really comes alive when it's fully assembled, at whihc point it becomes a beast.

The model comes in 4 main parts - turret and 2 track assemblies, which are metal, plus a crisp, well detailed resin hull. The ballistic shaped turret is complimented by a separate radar and two mini Vulcan point defence cannons.


The detail overall is superb and I congratulate John Bear Ross on designing a turret which is very real world and not some slabby sided affair that was obviously designed in a timeline without it's own equivalent of the T34, Panther and T80 to draw upon.

Tiger, Tiger

I think it's worth mentioning an issue with models designed using rapid prototyping, know as "potato chip effect". This is caused by the build up of layers during rapid prototyping print out. I'm led to believe that It's currently an issue that is extremely difficult to eliminate in its entirety and requires a lot of modelling hours to rectify. In fact there's a saying that a rapid prototype master is only as good as the skill of the person sanding it.

Is it noticeable? in places worse than others on some models. On the Merka I barely noticed it at all and put down the texture as being part and parcel of the real tank's manufacture. In my day when a tank was a tank and the Centurion was made out of manly Bakelite, none of this girly ceramic stuff, when up close and personal with a tank, it WAS rough.To be honest, I've been more pee-d off with model metal AFV's manufactured in the old way that had come from the casters with screeds of tiny pitting on a supposedly aerodynamiclally smooth surface.

So, to sum up, a great design, plenty of detail and utterly believable in it's own right.

WWW.REBELMINIS.COM

Cheers
Mark
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GZG June Teasers - New 15mm Tracked Main Battle Tank

A new 15mm MBT will emerge from the
GROUND ZERO GAMES
tankwerks this summer!

No further intel at the moment,
other than it's based upon the V15-01A Cougar MBT Chassis.

A very tasty bit of kit to add to anyone's 15mm Sci Fi tank park.

Keep an eye on the Ground Zero Games website

for further product and release details.

Click on the picture for an insanely larger version

I'm not normally a fan of tracked Sci Fi MBTs. I'm a GRAV man. But this new tracked MBT from GZG....when you have it sitting in front of you, even just straight from the packet and unpainted, is nothing less than the 'dogs bollocks'.

Cheers
Mark