New vehicle accessories and diorama bases now available from Black Dog.
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/black-dog-1-35-new-products
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/black-dog-1-35-new-products
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I really would like to see the photos that inspired this stoawage. And if it is inspired by actual photos, why not try to line up the straps with actual tie down points?
Apparently the Germans didn’t mind covering air intakes either.
And the Comet stowage - again, what inspired this? Everything is precariously balanced, and ready to fall off at any moment.
But hey, and least there’s no flash on any of these parts. I’m told there was a lot of that going around.
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I will admit that I question some aspects of stowage that just don’t work where it’s placed and so you have good and bad. With that said I so like their figures as a rule and I really like the vignette releases from BlackDog.
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I sometimes think that we’re heading back to the old days of Verlinden’s magnetic water-bottles and the like; that’s not to say Verlinden didn’t do a very good job on showing us all what could be done in 1:35 regarding finish, accessories and settings, but the random application of stowage just doesn’t work for me. You can’t just lob an ammo box on to the back of an AFV and hope it will stay there; it won’t even need for it to be travelling across country – less than a mile down the road it will fall off. If stuff must be loaded then it will have to be firmly lashed down, and it must make sense.
I’m not too sure of the virtue of the fuel drum shown on the Jagdpanzer; OK, so your logistics aren’t brilliant and you’ll take along your own, but that must be a lot of weight to heave on to the rear decks. And how is it secured? How do you get access to your engine decks to check fluids and the like with something that massive in the way?
Ditto random clothing and tarps – all too often seemingly abandoned on the vehicle, blocking periscopes or hatches. Now, it might be dependent on the scene the modeller envisages but I think there needs to be a bit more thought about all this – and the manufacturers should also undergo a bit of homework and revision.
For those non-military modellers this might be a bit of a problem; I appreciate that and I’ve never tied anything to a vehicle other than Hessian and camouflage nets (everything else was bundled inside the vehicle or a trailer) and perhaps some modellers with AFV experience might like to chime in here. It might help, if I can remember them all, to apply the following check-list before adding packs, track links, clothing, and the like (especially oak casks which seem almost to have been issued to StuG crews):
Where?
What?
Why?
How?
When?
Just my two penn’orth.
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I just related this to another member earlier today. A company sent me a CAD of proposed 3D printed stowage for an AFV, and it wasn’t bad. Not great, but not bad. However, the stowage straps just disappeared into the turret top, where no tie downs exist. I pointed this out, and within a very short amount of time it was revised. We need more of that.
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We sure do, and it needs a bit of work and no small research. When tackling my What-If M103 some months ago, before positioning the rucksacks onto the turret, I needed to make sure there was actually something there the straps could be secured to. I had some pretty good reference material and found out, fortuitously, that there were some tie-downs. Whether or not the straps could have been unbuckled and inserted I’m not too sure but at least it was possible(!)
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Doesn’t matter. In real life you run a loop of flat webbing through itself, and run the larger straps through that. If it’s unseen underneath your stowage all the better. Or -
Example of loop running through itself in red circle. Wide strap scrunched down to fit into smaller tie down in yellow cirlce:
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Looking on that pile of sacks on Pz IV glacis plate I wonder was the gravity cancelled in 3rd Reich? Or they’ve had unlimited stock of superclue to fix all this?
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Not a JP but a Tiger…
Courtesy of Frenchy on a thread earlier this year
A StuG carrying some wood in the engine deck:
Big box and tarps and who knows what else:
I agree that most often, some common sense is required, but there are also some weird real life examples…
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Is that vertical drum full of any type of fuel or oil? Or is it mounted there to dispose of empty Zerreißen Sie Es Dosen?
The angled ones look like they should be filled with Fougasse.
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Cry babies. A company is offering a product. If you don’t like it for WHATEVER reason, then don’t purchase it. Then do us all a favor and shut the hell up
Why don’t you take your own advice.
If you like it, great. Others questioning the usability or accuracy only means they
care how their models look. If you don’t, great, but don’t chastise others for questioning it.
In my opinion, most Blackdog stuff is just junk piled on a vehicle and not accurate at all.
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It is normal for such new items to be discussed; this is normally done with no small thought and comments are generally meant to be helpful, or to add to the discussion.
I just wonder what has actually prompted such ire? Your uncouthness does you no credit whatsoever.
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Are you unwell?
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Whitney please curtail your language. This forum allows members to assess what is on offer and give their thoughts on anything good or bad.
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Can’t we leave all of Whitney’s enlightening posts here for all to read ? I especially enjoyed the one , and I’m paraphrasing here, “ you crybabies never build anything and just complain “.
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My apologies for “poor” language. But I get really sick and tired of the crybabies who criticize EVERYTHING. They find fault with everything. Yet never produce squat. Yes IT BURNS ME UP and I get animated. So again apologies to the forum.
Whitney I do understand and had some idea of why it occurred. The staff try to keep the forums a place to discuss, complain and inform but we do not like to see members attacking each other.
The subject at hand is a Marmite subject as Blackdog can be hit and miss. I really like their the vignette bases and their figures, I have heard good things about their aircraft products. Their stowage releases are hit and miss as some aspects I like and others not so much but I use items as I want them and not specific releases and so it works for me. Securing points and levitating items do occur and is an issue that Blackdog needs to overcome and they are not alone.
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Well said Darren, I agree with your statement on BlackDog products as well.
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I’ve bought Black Dog products several times in the past, once for $200, and been severely burned by them. They are highly overpriced, undersized, and riddled with bubbles and mis-casting of parts. They, universally, are POS turds in a box and rely on good photography and unwary first time buyers to stay in business. Stay away from Black Dog. You have been warned.
I’m a 50+ year armor modeler who knows his sh!t and builds every week. No whiney-ass baby here.
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