Fattoria dell’Haye-Sainte al Waterloo

Recensione del Modello Airfix in Scala 1:76

Il modello di Airfix of the Waterloo Farm La Haye Sainte is a cheap plastic model kit which looks good when painted e based. The farm is great for dioramas e skirmish wargames, ed it may be used to represent an entire village in grand-tactical simulation games. The model kit may be improved by strengthening the walls e replacing the plastic doors con more realistically textured parts made from balsa o plywood. The yard may be detailed by adding farm animals, implements, wagons, woodpiles, supplies, e many other things one would expect to see here. In preparation for the Battle of Waterloo, La Haye Sainte farm was loopholed to allow the defending fanteria to fire from relative safety.

Contenuto

• Waterloo Farm - La Haye Sainte
  • 400 mm length equals 30 m
  • 208 mm width equals 15.8 m
  • 75 mm height equals 5.7 m
  • 1.5 mm wall thickness equals 11.5 cm
• Farm Wagon
• Hay-cart
• Woodpile
• Farm Implements
• Crates e Barrels
• Barricade

Valutazione

• Excellent choice of subject, La Haye Sainte farm played a key role in the Battle of Waterloo ed it can be the subject of an attractive diorama.
• The model is not a perfect scale representation of the historic La Haye Sainte farm, but it’s good enough to satisfy giocatori wargame e beginning dioramisti.
• Few parts, easy to assemble. The farm is a snap-together model, but it looks much better when glued together e mounted on an attractive base.

• The walls are too thin. Proper scale thickness should be 3 mm for the courtyard, garden e building walls. The courtyard e garden walls may be strengthened by glueing sections of cardboard o plastic card to the back of each one.
• The courtyard, garden e building walls are modelled con exposed brickwork, even though the exterior walls of the actual La Haye Sainte farm were plastered e whitewashed.
• The gateway should be flush con the exterior of the courtyard. To fix the mistake, cut the gateway out of the eastern wall section e move it back 20 mm.
• The gateway arch is modelled incorrectly on the outside. Serious modellers will want to build a proper gateway from scratch, using only the plastic roof from the kit.
• Holes in the snap-together roof sections need to be filled prima di dipingere.
• The farmhouse should be improved by adding window frames e clear plastic windows. Otherwise the building looks like a gutted ruin con flimsy walls.

The Waterloo Farm of La Haye Sainte is a great plastic model kit to get figure collezionisti interested in dioramas e skirmish wargames. Serious modellers will want to build their own replica of La Haye Sainte from scratch.

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- Pubblicato: 05.03.2001 - Aggiornato: 05.03.2001
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