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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Plastic Soldier Company MkIVs and T-34s

After seeing cbaxter's (Craig?) review of the Mk IVs and indie's talks about the T-34s from Plastic Soldier Company, I decided to finally order some and see what the fuss was really about!

Neal (no relation...) at the Warstore carries Plastic Soldier Company stuff.  I didn't know that before Tuesday morning!  So by Tuesday afternoon, the order is packed up and is ready for UPS.  I get it delivered sometime late mid-morning on Thursday!

I bought 10 Mk IVs (2 boxes) and 1 box of the T-34s.  After shipping the cost/tank was $5.80!

Thursday night I put together one of the T-34 76/85 tanks and tonight I put together one of the Mk IVs.  I've taken some pics of the process.  Also, some folks were asking about the compatibility with Battlefront tanks.  I've taken some pics of that too, so you can see it firsthand.  Eventually I'm going to try to take some measurements.

Overall, I like the vehicles.  Very detailed, easy to build but do take longer than BF tanks usually.  The parts are more finely detailed and and produce a better model, IMO. One thing, be sparing with the glue!

I think the Mk IV kit has had some improvements made to it over the T-34 kit and I believe the model fits better with the BF ones, but you can be the judge...

Apologies for a lot of terrible photos...  :)