Reply To: Hobby Weekender 27/07 – I live by the river

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Meng , who make fantastic 1/35 kits also have a line of caricature tanks , ships and planes for kids and young at heart modellers .  The tanks are versions of vehicles from the World War Toons video game .  I picked up one as a fun kit to mess with while having a break from serious modelling . I’ve now got 8 , are they ever fun .  Lots of neat cartoon , scale and even conversions to use in GW 40K , ( its seems Orks just love to convert them) on the net .  The hardest part of the S-35 build was finding a paint scheme that I liked , the French had , what seems like a different scheme for each one of these things they built ( over 400 ).  Any way I just picked a simple one , meaning colors I had at hand .  Base green , stripes in off white and brown with a couple of thin black stripes . The only down side to the line of kits , IMO , is the lack of a complete decal set , although to be fair , they are supposed to be cartoony . Not having any other French decals , I had to search through my stash and thats why it has Bolt Action tank numbers and the unit insignia is from a Space Marine kit . Heres a sample of what Meng has in this line , picture from the big model show in Japan back in May ( IRC )