A Henschel truck of my own

I've been taking advantage of this long Summer season for pushing forward some projects for my own collection. One of these is a Henschel type 33 truck, painted for Condor Legion service with some German crewmen of Xan Miniatures replacing the default Spanish driver. Not any master piece of work, but it will do nicely on tabletop.

Here you have the original article in my personal painting blog (Catalan language only, sorry)

New 1/72 Henschel Type 33 truck

We've finally got available a new model kit at 1/72 scale. This time it's the turn for a softskin, the Henschel type 33 truck - a heavy workhorse used by both Legion Condor and Nationalists at SCW, and later by the German Army all through WWII. Just as its already released 1/56 version, we have conceived it as a fast assembly kit, mainly in resin with a few white metal parts. Kits does also include the white metal figure of a SCW driver, sculpted as usual by Juan Bautista.

Here you have one of such trucks, once painted and depicted by Rubén Torregrosa of Heresy Brush:

This new 1/72 scale softskin is available at our website - and hopefully soon from our main stockists and retailers too!

End of May state of things

Just a few works to let you know what we have in hands right now, a few days before the month is over. Our next novelty will come next week, when we're going to release at last the 1/100 version of Panzer / Befehlswagen I ausf. B. All components are ready, we're just awaiting boxes to be printed. Once released this one model, the whole SCW Panzer I family will be available at both 1/72 and 1/100 scales.

Right afterwards and still within June, we have two models else awaiting their turn --the one at 1/72 scale, the other one at 1/56. A first batch of both is already cast, we're just expecting their respective artwork to be finished for starting box design. Which one will be ready first? Well, place your bid please!

One of the models in contest is the 1/72 scale version of Henschel Type 33 heavy truck, already released at 1/56 some time ago. This kit is nearly identical to its larger sister, except for having a white metal SCW driver included in it.

The other candidate is 1/56 Chevrolet 1.5ton truck --one model we're especially fond of. We cannot determine yet which one is to be released first, and launching of the one excludes the other for both logistic and financial reasons - too unlikely and costly to have up to 3 boxes designed and printed in just one month. The loser in this race will have to wait until next July, sadly.

Besides, it is also expectable for within June our 4th white metal infantry set - 20mm Nationalist Command & Weapons. Greens are being sculpted right now, so we're within deadlines. Just a note about white metal figures schedule: this range is the less likely one to drop from a previously given deadline, for it enjoys the maximum priority.

In July we'll see the birth of two 1/72 sets else: white metal Militiawomen and a hard plastic Renault FT-17. No images on this latter yet, but I'm confident to be able to show you some ultimate sprues pretty soon.