Landships II

Saw this announced on the PMMS website last week and wasn't that impressed to be honest.

I cannot see why anyone familiar with the subject would choose this conversion kit over a few sheets of styrene & a good scriber.

Blanking the Takom Male sponsons, and adding rivets where the sheets but up on the front corner, is no problem - so those new sponson panels are highly superfluous.

To me, the rear bin looks all wrong for a Mk.I Supply Tank - looks more like the bin & strap arrangement on Mk.II Supply Tanks but badly interpreted. The Mk.I has a bin the lid of which follows the same angle as the top of the rear track horns and a back wall which extends much further rearward - about level with the last panel line on the outside of the track horn. Only the Mk.II has a short length bin with a heavily slanted top - but that top seemed formed of two straps, not a full enclosed lid, going by photos elsewhere on this forum.

As to the roof storage. The laser cut wood behind the cab looks like pure conjecture and the rear bin was much larger on 'Dodo'. Roof bins would probably have been fabricated out of metal sheet at the same time as the rear bin anyway. As the grouser bins on the roof of Mk.IV tanks were. Anyway, what is holding those lasercut slats together - will power? magic? - there are no bolts, brackets, angles or cross members.

Finally - no effort to address the need for a cab roof hatch whatsoever! Vital to this conversion, due to internal storage blocking rearward access to the cab [and indeed the circular roof hatch].

Sadly, I think this is Panzershop trying to cash in on the new wave of WW1 models by re-hashing their old Emhar set and adding a few modern materials for people with more money than sense.