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Comment by AM on January 25, 2015 at 2:46pm

Picture showing 3rd generation tanks from different parts of the world:

This picture is a little old and is missing the following tanks:

American M1A2:

Russian T-80 BV:

Russian T-90MS/SM:

Comment by JEAN-FRANCOIS QUILLIEN on October 2, 2013 at 9:55am

Welcome here, Raphael Rodriguez!! You eventually caught the virus !!

Comment by AM on March 17, 2013 at 1:06pm

My Russian tank collection:

From bottom to top:

KV-1
T-34/76
T-34/85
IS-2
IS-3
T-54
T-55
T-62
T-64
T-72
T-80
T-90

And most recently a KV-2 heavy tank:

Comment by AM on March 17, 2013 at 1:01pm

My German WWII Panzer collection:

From left to right - bottom to top

Pz 38(t), Pz. I, Pz. II, Pz. III, Pz. IV, Panther, Tiger, King Tiger, Maus

Comment by mario jimenez on June 26, 2012 at 5:38pm

very beautiful collections of 1/72.Jean....wish i could broaden my collections too in the coming months....am just a newbie with diecast armor collection

Comment by JEAN-FRANCOIS QUILLIEN on June 26, 2012 at 12:44pm

Hi, people: here is my FOV 1/72 AFVs and trucks WWII collection:

From first rank to last, left to right:

Pz IV, PzJäger 38(T) Hetzer, Wespe,

SdKfz 2251/1 Ausf D "Stuka Zu Fuss", KingTiger, Panther,

Büssing-Nag truck,

US M3 Lee, Sherman M1A1 w/ mine roller, GMC 2.5t truck, 

LCT (wearing a Dragon Armor Sherman 105mm howitzer), M3 w/ 105mm howitzer,

UK M3 Grant, Churchill Mk VII.

 

Same collection, other angles of shots:

Still diecast most of components!

Ciao, mates !

Jeff

Comment by mario jimenez on June 16, 2012 at 4:50pm

I finally decided to join the armor vehicles in my diecast collection.Years ago, i enjoyed building plastic models from Tamiya, mostly tank and have always liked it. Having just posted some pics I recently got....i hope you like the pics....cheers 

Comment by Mikeindigokiloecho on October 16, 2011 at 8:21pm

Awesome info!  Many Thanks!

Comment by JEAN-FRANCOIS QUILLIEN on October 12, 2011 at 2:07am

SORRY!!!

 

I forgot one of the most important diecast series:

Corgi's 1/50 AFVs. I own 9 models of this collection.

Comment by JEAN-FRANCOIS QUILLIEN on October 12, 2011 at 1:40am

Hello, Mike !! Very happy contaminating a MAC member to ground armored bugs !!

Q1: generally speaking, and regarding only static models, the scales are from 1/144 up to 1/32. You can find some enormous exceptions like the Tiger I at 1/16 from FOV/Unimax. But Two models and your room is full !!

 

Q2: Hobby Master, Dragon Armor, Easy model Ground Armor (preassembled prepainted Trumpeter models), Forces of Valor (FOV/Unimax), Panzerstahl, IXO, aso ...

 

Q3: Metal (zamac?) / plastic parts. It is to be noticed that what they call "diecast" is more and more plastic for metal raw mat. increasing costs. But some brands try to maintain, as HM, Panzerstahl, FOV or IXO. For FOV, they are issuing new series in plastic at lower price.

 

Q4: It depends on the Brand. I found a mix of metal chassis/plastic turrets, plastic chassis/ metal turrets, the oldest models I got are entirely diecast.

 

Q5: Plastic wheels in most of the cases for finest details at 1/72.

 

Q6: Generally, turret rotates, gun elevates. Wheels are fixed as the models are for static exposition.

 

Q7: My recommendations are for the 1/72, with some exceptions for 1/48 or 1/35. I have no 1/32 FOV, only some 1/72.

-1/72: HM, Dragon, Panzerstahl, Easy Model, IXO, FOV

-1/43: IXO

-1/48: HM

-1/35: Dragon

 

I hope that this will help!!

 

Kind regards

Jerff 

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