Tuesday, May 4

Preview: 1/35th scale Maybach Hl 120 Engine for Panzer III/IV Family With Repair Crew from MiniArt

Miniart continue to add interesting parts for your dioramas with this, a set of two crew or repairmen and the engine of a Panzer III or IV for a workshop scene. These will add to many of their other workshop figures and sets and we have info and images of the plastic and the scene in our preview...
Preview: 1/35th scale Maybach Hl 120 Engine For Panzer III/IV Family With Repair Crew from MiniArt

Maybach Hl 120 Engine For Panzer III/IV Family With Repair Crew
From MiniArt
Kit No #35331
1/35th scale
The Subject: Maybach Hl 120 Engine For Panzer III/IV Family With Repair Crew 
Tankers and workshop crew were often called upon to fix their own or their unit's engines from their tanks - just like any other vehicle, Tanks did break down and the rigors of fighting and long miles and thin logistical lines took their strain on the repair crews and their tank's engines.

Workshop crew or tankers repairing the engine of a Panzer IV on the Eastern Front. 
Although the Panzer III and Panzer IV or their family of StuG's and SPG's that used the Maybach HL 120 engine were not considered too unreliable or problematic, especially with the more complex Panther and Tigers. These tanks did still need maintenance, and MiniArt look to have a kit that fills that scenario in this kit...

Miniart's new kit:
A simple kit to add a lot to your Panzer III or IV series of tanks from MiniArt. This can be used in a workshop or field repair diorama or even in a wrecked or burnt out scene.

This kit is made from five sprues of injection moulded plastic in 35th scale - first the engine...
The two repairmen of the Werkstatt-Kompanie are also included on two sprues...
The kit contains the engine - a Maybach HL 120, complete with tools box (and photo-etch tools!) with 2 figures and a decal sheet for the workshop and engine data plates which is also included...

Werkzeugkasten translates to "Toolbox" in English.
It could very much improve many other kits from other manufacturers of Panzer III of IV-based kits in 35th scale..