Tuesday 12 April 2022

Tiznao or Never

 



I've been trying to find some 15mm and/or 1/100 scale models of improvised armoured vehicles for my For Whom The Dice Rolls Spanish Civil War project but without much luck. There used to be some available from, both Stronghold Miniatures and QRF but both of these options are no longer available. Peter Pig have a handful of various armoured cars and trucks but they are resin and have thick cast on bases, which I'd have to remove to make them look half decent, while they're also not cheap at about a fiver a pop, not including postage. 


I think the only option will be to do some scratch building with plastic card, lego blocks and other bits and bobs, to create some generic armoured 'tiznao' for my Anarchist militia. I don't think it would be too difficult but they might not be exactly like the actual vehicles, although I suspect only the purists and rivet counters would notice? I have found this site, which includes several larger scale card models to download, some of which might re-scale to 1/100 with a bit of work, with another possibility being to use them as templates for my own plastic card construction efforts:

3 comments:

  1. They're all one offs not built on an assembly line. A bit of variation shouldn't be a problem. Syborg 3D make a Constructora Field - the one that looks like a jelly mould - for £3. It was made in Barcelona, so probably ideal for Anarchists.

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  2. https://www.syborg3dprinting.co.uk

    Beaten to it!
    Neil

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  3. That ticks a box...thanks for the link.

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