Due to captPiett posting all that cold war 6mm armour I ended up buying a couple of packs of 3mm scifi … that relationship made sense at the time.
Anyway, did quick test paint job on a couple of MBTs to see how they look. There are 'M76 McAuliffe MBT'
scale vs epic:
company strength:
details (really need to have these based to paint properly, awkward to hold by hand and paint them):
Im pretty taken by these . 20p a tank. Only two real downsides:
1) the range is pretty small, and aside from some hammer's slammers style hover-tanks 'scifi' pretty much means 2020 tank wise (T-14 armata sort of shapes, nothing more exotic).
2) the fillet between the cannon and the hull is annoying … if they'd been moulded side-to-side not top-to-bottom it wouldn't be needed (if they smoothed out the underside). While in the pictures it looks like you could file it out, the metal is very sharp and brittle, end of the gun snapped off when i tried.
Scale on the McAuliffe is spot on for 1:600 scale if you use contemporary MBT as a scale guide. I also got a pack of artillery, which are a similar size, and a pack of fire support vehicles which for some reason are larger than the MBT …
