I thought about getting the Tamiya 'Storch' for it, but decided it would take up too much room on the base.
Especially now that I have been busy on ebay.
(Haven't got any time to build at the moment so I buy instead.)
I have recently purchased from there some vintage Bandai 1/48 'Red Stripe' armour kits.
(and one ICM 1/48 armour kit.)
I have wanted a 88mm Flak 18 for the German AFV diorama since I first had the idea of doing one, but
(no joke intended) 1/48 scale is very limited in its artillery range.
Today only one company called Gaso.line makes the German 88mm Flak in 1:48 scale and its expensive, a resin kit and hard to find in stock anywhere.
Another alternative is Bandai, they made them in the 70's in their 1:48 AFV range but they also stopped making them back then too.
Trying to get a winning bid on ebay for a Bandai 'Red Stripe' 88mm Flak gun was driving me crazy after having bid in a lot of auctions lately for this kit and being outbid in the last dying moments.
(For some unknown reason there has been quite a few of them come up on ebay lately.)
I was winning one auction for ages but was suddenly outbid on it with
6 seconds time left to go before its end.
Not enough time to get a counter offer in before it closed damn it.
(I even set the alarm and got out of bed at 3:40AM to be online before and when it ended to make sure I could win it.)
This Kit if complete, with its parts still bagged up and in good condition now goes at auction for around $95-$110 USD and is incredibly sought after.
But I refused to be beaten or give up....
Tonight ebay had a
NEW addition to its items for sale that you could
"Bid On",
"Buy Now" for $99.99 USD
or "Make an Offer" on.
A
88mm Flak Gun and a Sd. Kfz.7, both 'Mint' Bandai 'Red Stripe' kits and being sold together.
No guessing that after a very short time being listed an offer came in from another member and it wasn't very far off the seller's asking price at all, so I acted and bought them before their price went higher or they were sold.
So now I have two 1:48 German 8 Ton Sd. Kfz.7's, but thats okay.
The kit has the option of the canvas roof being up or down, so one will be with have its top up and the other one will be with its top down.
I have already paid for them all and now only have to eagerly await their arrival here.
(Oh yeah, and assemble and paint them too.)
Cheers,
Dave