Field Camp Set, ca. 1940–1965

Recensione dei Modellini Hasegawa in Scala 1:72

Military modellers, dioramisti, e giocatori wargame need an enormous amount of scenic accessories to create the look e feel of a particular event o period in history. veicoli militari involved in a protracted campaign are typically laden con a variety of stores e personal gear, a look which is rarely achieved con the standard parts included in a model kit. Instead, the modeller will have to scrounge oggetti of combat stowage from other sources o build them from scratch.

Contenuto

• 1 Wooden Bridge
• 4 Brick Wall Sections
• 2 Utility Poles
• 2 Wooden Fences
• 3 Tank Obstacles
• 2 Road Signs
• 8 Sandbags
• 1 Tent
• 4 scatole di munizione
• 8 Fuel Cannisters
• 5 Fuel Drums

Valutazione

Excellent choice of subject, this kit is the first of its kind, ed it is made in the same hard plastic used for model vehicle kits. The oggetti can be glued con liquid plastic cement.

Minimal assembly, most pieces are ready to use. Good casting quality, minimal flash.

The metal tank obstacles are very interesting, e they will look nice in a Normandia beach setting. Assembly can be a little tricky, the instructions should be studied prudentamente to avoid mistakes.

The wooden bridge would be suitable for crossing a narrow ditch o a short stretch of swampy ground. The bridge is 134 mm long e 66 mm wide, ed it looks just sturdy enough to support a medium truck o a light armoured vehicle. The bridge rests on six vertical supports sunk into the ground, it has no ramp at either end.The underside of the bridge is scored along its entire lenght, ed it can be snapped in half to create due sections of wooden fence. Fences of this type may be found in Eastern Europe, e possibly in some Asian countries.

The tent included in this set has a ground area of 48 x 40 mm, ed it looks like it might be used as a medical tent. It is much too large for a frontline dwelling, ed it has a rectangular door frame instead of the more common tent flap.

The wooden scatole di munizione may be used as combat stowage on open-topped veicoli da combattimento. If supply trucks are to be loaded con scatole di munizione, a simple trick is to cover a core of balsa wood con a single layer of scatole di munizione. We used the quattro boxes in this set to equip the Kettenschlepper Bren tractor of a cannone anticarro da 75 mm PaK 40. The rear stowage box has been removed to make room for the ammo boxes.

The fuel cannisters are very useful vehicle accessories, even if they are not of the sought-after Wehrmacht type. The cans have a large recessed X on either side which is more reminiscent of the American e Italian copies of the Jerrycan.

Compatible con most vehicle e figure sets.

The fuel drums will require some filling e sanding to hide the seems along the due drum halves. Fuel drums may be used as cargo, e they look right on airfields ed at vehicle fueling points. A beautiful model of a dented e rusted fuel drum can be found in the Revell 8th Army fanteria set.

The sandbags are too much alike to be of use in a diorama. A single bag, placed on a vehicle o in a window-sill, may look right, but larger sandbag emplacements should be made from DAS Pronto modelling putty.

The triangular brick wall sections are not very useful, there are no doors o windows to build a house with. If these walls were designed to represent ruins, one would expect to see irregular pieces of broken wall instead of triangles. These walls are brand new, con no bullet o sharpnel holes anywhere. Due wall sections may be combined to form a square piece of brick wall which has no apparent uses on the battlefield either.

One of the sign posts is a civilian type con only due directions shown. The other one makes a suitable minefield warning sign. Paper cut-out signs are included in the instructions, but they are marred by bad spelling e grammatical mistakes. "CAUTION. HAVE YOU THE CORRECT AUTHORITY FO FROCEED" just doesn’t sound very military, unless we are to assume that Jerry wrote the sign to confuse guidatori nemici. "STOP!! A LAND MINE" is equally inappropriate, why mark a single mine instead of just clearing o detonating it.

Fences e power lines may be of some use in a diorama. The kit contains due each of these oggetti, not enough to fence in a field o line a road.

Utilizzo Storico

• Europen Theater of Operations (ETO) 1940-1945
• Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO) 1942-1945
• South-east Asia 1945-1954

Hasegawa’s Field Camp Set is a good source of a number of important oggetti of modern equipaggiamento. The mixture of scenery e vehicle stowage is not very practical for modellers o dioramisti, it would have been better to focus on one o the other type of accessory oggetti. Fuel cannisters, equipaggiamento personale, scatole di munizione e separate rounds of ammunition are notoriously in short supply, ed an accessory kit featuring these oggetti would be a welcome addition to the growing range of 1:72 scale model kits.

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– Pubblicato: 1997 – Aggiornato: 06.06.2007
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