More 1:72 Heer '46 walking tanks ...from Rocket Models

[Dizzyfugu]

Accidental find on HLJ.com: a line of further 1:72 walking tanks, called "German E-75 Ausf. Vierfüssler" from a company (unkown to me) called Rocket Models - not certain if these are associated with the (still pending) Modelcollect release, even though I cannot get rid of the feeling that there's a close relationship, all the weapons are common Modelcollect elements.
Looks like a basic "chassis" with different turrets. The Kugelblitz turret underneath looks wacky?














Announced for October, pre-order open.

[McColm]

Interesting

[PR19_Kit]

The one at the bottom looks like it's a launcher for a Wasserfall AA missile. Very Luftwaffe '46.

[zenrat]

I like them.  I can see me kitbashing the legs onto other tanks.

[Dizzyfugu]

The one at the bottom looks like it's a launcher for a Wasserfall AA missile. Very Luftwaffe '46.

It's a Rheintochter SAM launch pad; this one is actually already available from Modelcollect with different E-Panzer chassis'.

Seems to be serious if it is in HLJ's catalogue, and not too expensive - to me, the shown price is EUR 13,-, which is a steal. Already ordered two, the basic "combat tank" version and the one with the Flak turret.

[PR19_Kit]

The one at the bottom looks like it's a launcher for a Wasserfall AA missile. Very Luftwaffe '46.

It's a Rheintochter SAM launch pad; this one is actually already available from Modelcollect with different E-Panzer chassis'.

Thanks Thomas, I knew it was something like that. 

[NARSES2]

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Seems to be serious if it is in HLJ's catalogue, and not too expensive - to me, the shown price is EUR 13,-, which is a steal.

Is a good price, even at the current exchange rate  18 months ago it would have been fantastic

[Dizzyfugu]

HLJ now leaked some more info and pictures:







"For those of you are are getting bored of the usual paper tigers and Luftwaffe 1946 designs, Rocket Models is here for you! Rocket Models takes late war German designs and brings them to a whole new level with these new Panzer walker tanks. These kits are part of their new "Fist of War" series which is based on the concept that, what If the end of World War II happened two years later (~1947)? What kind of new weapons of war would we have seen developed?

The German E-75 Ausf.Vierfussler is based on the E-75 tank which was part of the E series of tanks developed late in the war. This kit turns the E-75 design into into a tank with four legs, which can be equipped with tank cannon, two different anti-aircraft guns, or a missile launcher depending on the version you buy. Vierfüssler means to walk with four legs (tetrapod) in German."


Sounds as if there was more to come - and I'd actually appreciate that slightly different variant that was originally published under the Modelcollect banner, with a simple turret and a short-barreled gun for urban warfare.

[Madoc]

Ye gods!  These things are utterly absurd!  They're patently ridiculous!

Thus, I have to buy at least one of each of them!

[Dizzyfugu]

The kits (at least two of them in pre-sale) now turned up in Modelcollect's web shop/catalogue, with their own "Fist of War" category:

http://www.modelcollect.com/fist-of-war-chassis

SRP there USD 21.99.