Small Scale Military Headquarters

While I have many 1:72nd scale armor models plus others in the 1:30-1:35th scale range, my favorites are those in the middle of the spectrum---approximately 1:48-1:50th-----as these are large enough to show a good deal of detail, but not so large that they crowd everything else off my display shelves. One of my primary sources comes from the Gaso.Line-Solido genre. Many of these are simply pre-built from plastic kits, however, a good many are hybrids created by taking an old Solido chassis and slipping a pre-made plastic upper surface, turret, etc. over it so only the original road wheels and tracks are visible. My latest addition is a Merkava tank. Here's a picture:

For those who might be interested, here are pictures of similar Gaso.Line-Solido models for AFVs of other countries. First, a couple of British entries:

A bunch of Soviets:

A quintet of French machines:

Two German and a single Japanese AFV:

And several Yanks:

Cool...where do you buy them and about how much?

Light.Inf.Scout wrote:Cool...where do you buy them and about how much?

Thanks, LIS.

I get many on eBay where several sellers specialize in selling this sort of thing in the Solido listings. Also, there's a French online store---Quarter-kit-----that I often use. They list several brands---like Master Fighter-----as well as Solido, Verem and Gaso.Line in the "collector's models" section. As to price, I would say that about $100-120 is the norm, though I have spent more for really unusual items.

WHY WHY WHY can't FOV do these tanks instead of the Tiger,Sherman,Panthers over and over??

HOLD THE PRESS!!
WHICH, of the above tanks are in the so-called 1:30/1:35 scale??
If any of these are in fat 1:32, THAT is BIG NEWS!!!

If you count FOV as well as King & Country, The Collector's Showcase and Figarti, quite a few AFVs are available in the 1:30-1:35th scale range. Among the more unusual items are Figarti's Stuart and Type 95 tank, King & Country's Char B and FOV's Matilda and KV 1. A new high price niche manufacturer, John Jenkins Designs, is offering three outstanding 1:30th scale replicas of tanks that fought in the Spanish Civil War, including a T-26 ( see picture, below ):

I just added this Gaso.Line StuG, German self propelled infantry support vehicle to my 1:50th scale armor collection: