Landships II

Hans56 · Sergeant

1/72 Fiat 2000

elbavaro · Commander in Chief

Great work!

James H · Legend

That is tremendous.

Pat · Commander in Chief

Very impressive! Found some more images of this master here:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/47210/thread/1287432915/1-72+Fiat+2000

baldwin · Hero

Bellisimo!!! brilliant model.
Anybody got pics of Italian tank crew?????

MTorrent · Lieutenant-Colonel

I have to admire the simpleness of construction: brilliant desing. So are the surfaces too.

Only photos I've seen of Italian tankmen can be found on Fiat 2000 and Fiat 3000 articles on the Landships main site...

Hughbearson · General

So good! Is it plasticard or CAD?

Michel Boer · Brigadier

Some more good news on this long awaited model: it will have decals! Those large, elaborate semi-handwritten Fiat�logo's, which I'm now producing on the drawing board.

Michel.

Hans56 · Sergeant

I made a 3d drawing in Rhino and had it printed in 3d.

The model needed some handwork after that, but this was the only way I could get all the rivets in place without getting crazy.

Although the drawing program ran into memory problems!

plastikk · Colonel

Fiat will be resin?On the photos look's like injected plastic.

Michel Boer · Brigadier

That�s because it�s 3D printed in plastic; the models will be cast in resin.

CharlieC · Legend

Most of the full sized images on the original Landships website have vanished although the thumbnail images are still there. I'd like to convert the Fiat 2000 article for the new Landships II website. If you've still got the images from the old site I'd really like to have them.

Regards,

Charlie

Jaroslav K · Major

Great job, very nice model.

Rectalgia · Legend

CharlieC wrote:

Most of the full sized images on the original Landships website have vanished although the thumbnail images are still there.

Charlie, try feeding the broken link into the Internet Archive (as said before, may be good up until 2008). The first one I tried worked:

http://web.archive.org/web/20101205004152/http://landships.freeservers.com/fiat2000-2.JPG

Steve

And the second ... http://web.archive.org/web/20101205004739/http://www.landships.freeservers.com/fiat2000-5.JPG

third http://web.archive.org/web/20040314160632/http://www.landships.freeservers.com/fiat2000-1.jpg

Can't find the next offhand but

the one after http://web.archive.org/web/20101205005300/http://www.landships.freeservers.com/fiat2000-4.JPG

... and now my browser/connection has gone strange ... posting what I have while I can (marvels of modern technology my arse).

S

-- Edited by Rectalgia on Sunday 5th of December 2010 01:56:50 AM

CharlieC · Legend

That's a good tip - will use it when I run into the broken links on Landships I - the new Fiat 2000 is on Landships II.

Regards,

Charlie

Jaroslav K · Major

http://www.tracks-n-troops.eu/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=14_1&products_id=9915

Michel Boer · Brigadier

This one is built by Jan Giesbers himself, using the decals which are supplied with the kit. There's another version possible in plain mid-(greenish?)grey, with the same Fiat markings, although placed slightly differently.

Roger Todd · Legend

That is awesome work, Jan!

Shows how out of the loop I've been that I've missed one of my all-time Great War tanks being produced as a superb kit!

Roger Todd · Legend

I recently received my Fiat 2000 kit from Black Lion and I have to say it's absolutely outstanding!

Hans van Oerle has done an incredible job making the master. His technique of producing it in 3D CAD software and having the physical parts made with rapid-prototyping really is The Future - the level of crispness and precision would be nigh-on impossible with traditional methods (okay, maybe not, but I'd wager they would be more time-consuming). Another advantage is that if he decided to produce the kit in a different scale (say 1/48 or 1/35) then rather than slavishly make a new master from scratch, he would only need to re-scale his 3D model and have new physical parts rapid-prototyped - I assume so anyway, if I'm wrong I'm sure Mr Van Oerle will correct me!

The model is hollow, not a solid lump like many resin models kits are, so there is the potential for the modelmaker to cut open doors in the side and add internal detail. The turret is also hollow (see below), again opening the possibility for superdetailing (not from me, though, I can't be arsed).

I've attached some photos of the kit dry-fitted (and not completely cleaned up, there's still excess resin to cut away from the MG ports). If you love Great War armour (and who here doesn't?) BUY THIS KIT!

Incidentally, I also got Hans van Oerle's mastered 1/76 Vickers Independent - what a scorcher of a kit!

BTW, I also 'accidentally' bought two kits of both the Fiat 2000 and the Vickers Independent! I had originally enquired at Tracks & Troops, but they were so slow responding to my enquiries about shipping costs for more than one kit that I thought they'd lost interest in my potential order so I ordered them from Black Lion. T & T then contacted me with their invoice and I felt so guilty I ended up confirming the earlier (but delayed) order with them as well! But I don't mind because I've decided I'll complete one Fiat 2000 with the original MGs and the other with a pair of 37mm cannon which were fitted in place of the forward pair of MGs in the 1930s (see attached photo of a 1/35 scale Fiat made by Piero Parlani). It will also give me a chance to use two different paint schemes, probably a camouflage pattern for the MG-equipped vehicle, seeing as the up-gunned tank only appeared to sport a plain overall colour.

-- Edited by Roger Todd on Tuesday 8th of November 2011 01:07:55 AM