Beyond The Sprues
General Category => Market Place => New Model Kit News/Reviews => Topic started by: Jeffry Fontaine on November 04, 2012, 04:44:58 AM
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Minor Models (http://www.minor-web.com/) from Spain. This company has some very impressive photo-etched brass detail sets and conversion sets for 1:48 scale (O Gauge), 1:35th scale, and 1:24th scale models.
They have also thoughtfully provided on-line links for their instructions in pdf format for some of their more complicated kits in addition to a lot of supporting images for each kit.
An example of the level of detail is shown in the image below:
U.S. WW2 SCR-193 radio set for long range communications could be used as a fixed base station or mobile radio. Clicking on the image will take you Minor Scale Models main page.
(http://www.minor-web.com/resources/DSCN2142-12.jpg) (http://www.minor-web.com/)
(Image source: Carles Riba/Minor Models (http://www.minor-web.com/))
The small "omega" shaped object in front of the radio sets is a key set for tapping out Morse code while mounted to the leg of the radio operator which is amazing detail in 1:35th scale.
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Minor & AGV models are doing a collaboration under the title of "BSM" to do some 1/35th kits ....
a German rail cargo-wagon, WW2 improvised French FF armoured car & a mine-protected Landrover.
The landy is the version used by New Zealand SAS in Rhodesia !
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Nice stuff. :)
Minor point of order, 'O Scale' and 'O Gauge' are not the exactly same thing and 'O Scale' is only 1:48
in the US, in the UK and Europe it is generally 1:43.5, but in France it can also be 1:45.
RR modelers are so complicated. ;D