1:56 Henschel Type 33 Truck is back too!

Now it's the 1:56^th scale version of Henschel Type 33 heavy truck what has come back as a digital product - that is, as a set of STL files for 3D-printing. It has been simplified so as to have less parts; but it still stands as a multi-part set, in order to ease its painting job, as well as an eventual customization - with separate parts for chassis, front, cab roof, bed, wheels and optional tarpaulin, toolbox and steering wheel.

Henschel's STL files come in a .RAR or .ZIP file on demand. Due to the compressed file exceeding a bit the maximum allowance of our website's software (which is below 2 Mb), an automated download cannot be set; therefore, the STLs must be delivered manually using a secure service such as WeTransfer after order is paid for.

Also, we are already working out the same with another well-known 1:56 model kit - the Hispano Suiza MC-36 armored vehicle.

1/56 Henschel Truck released

Expectably good news for those wishing us to plunge more extensively into 1/56^th, for our first 2014 release is that of one such scale model. This is Henschel Type 33 Truck, a WWII German beautiful workhorse also used by Spanish Nationalists during the 1936-1939 Civil War.

Not exactly a fast assembly kit, because we've had to device for it a total of 21 different parts, in order to keep good detailing. As you can see by the picture above, 8 such parts are white metal cast --those smaller, or proner to an accident ones. Here below you can see what it looks like once assembled:

As an undesired consequence of such above our standard complication, we haven't been able by any means to keep this nice model pricing below € 20.00, as we'd like to. Our Henschel Type 33 Truck can be purchased at € 24.95 at this particular page of Minairons website --or requested from the trader of your choice in this list, or distributed by them.

Closer to a deadline

Henschel Type 33 Truck, which is to be our second 1/56^th model kit is closer to its release date. Here below you can see some captions on one such models, once painted by Daniel Rodríguez of Field Factory:

Not our easiest model, for it consists of around 20 parts --some of which have had to be cast in white metal for higher endurance, while those larger parts have been made in high quality resin.

Wish you like it not least than our Hispano Suiza MC-36 Armoured Truck!

Henschel Type 33 truck

Here you are some first shots on our forthcoming 1/56^th scale Henschel Type 33 truck. Ultimate moulds are ready, so that production of this nice softskin vehicle is to start pretty soon.

As you can see, some parts won't be made in resin, but in white metal instead --for higher endurance. Work is progressing smooth and fast, so that expectations about releasing it by late November can be kept.

1/56 Henschel Type 33 truck: First views

Henschel Type 33 medium truck has been designed for being our second 1/56 model, after the already released Hispano Suiza MC-36 Armoured truck. On the following pictures you can watch the general look of its first prototype.

Once brought into production, the ultimate model will consist of around 20 parts, most of them in high quality resin (the so-called "liquid plastic" PUR). This time though, some parts will probably be made in white metal due to their small size or fragility.

If nothing actually unexpected happens, our 1/56 Henschel Type 33 will be released within the traced headline --next November.

...And our next 1:56 model

While still waiting for our 1:56 Hispano Suiza armoured car boxes and decals to be printed, perhaps you would like to learn what is in the pipeline next at this scale. In previous posts you've already been acknowledged of what to expect next from Minairons in other scales, but those fond of 28mm gaming have a right to know too what is coming now in their preferred scale.

Well, let me introduce it to you, then. It's the German Henschel type 33 medium truck, used by the SCW Nationalist side:

Perhaps worth to explain too that our pipeline forecasts have just been accordingly updated. Please check it here, if curious. Some surprises else to follow soon.