| Attack Models |
| 1/72 12.8 cm Ammunition for the Flakzwilling 40 |
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kit number 72333 |
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Reviewed By Jim Pearsall, #2209 |
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MSRP: $13.46 USD Thanks to Attack for the review copy and the chance to add detail to their super 12.8 cm kit. What You Get: This is something out of the ordinary. It’s an add-on of ammunition for the Attack Hobby kit of the 12.8 cm. Flakzwilling 40. If you’re building the gun(s), you will want the ammunition. It really adds a lot to the basic kit. The Kit: |
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| The kit is all resin. It consists of 33 of the “full projectile”, 15 shell casings (fired), 13 ammunition boxes with separate lids, and 3 closed boxes. It comes in a blow molded (or vac formed) plastic bubble with a card back. Instructions are included. |
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| The molding is flawless. No bubbles, no flash. The boxes have to be cut from the pour sprue with a fairly heavy saw, but the ammunition and the box tops are easy to remove, and clean up in minutes. The spent casings have recesses. I drilled them out slightly to allow them to be mounted on toothpicks for painting. |
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| The real challenge of this kit is getting those little stripes on the projectiles. Otherwise the parts separate from the pour sprues with few problems. Painting was pretty simple. I used brass for the casing and gold for the projectile for the early versions of the shell, and steel and chrome silver for the late versions. All were Testors® paints. Only the gun metal used on the late projectile stripes was Model Master® metallic, the others were the little bottles I’ve had laying around for (literally) decades. |
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| The boxes are pretty simple too. Two parts. Glue the lid to the box, paint, detail the latches and hinges, add a bit of wash, and they’re done. The shells fit nicely into the open boxes. |
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| It then hit me that there was just no “scale” to these things. They’re 1/72, and over an inch long. These are BIG. So I hijacked a Wehrmacht soldier from the Italeri 1/72 field gun assortment, did a quick paint job on the uniform, and put him in with the projectiles. Makes a good size comparison. |
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Overall Assessment: If you’re going to buy the Attack 1/72 Flakzwilling 40, buy this set to go with it. The gun alone is nice, but all that ammunition (and the spent casings) add a lot, and adds some drama. Include a few figures to give human scale, and it becomes a great diorama or vignette. |
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| Thanks to John Noack and Attack for a nice addition to the 12.8 cm Flakzwilling. |
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