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Wine Bottles & Wooden Crates (35571)


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Wine Bottles & Wooden Crates

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Dioramas.  They always look better with some personalisation, as do AFVs and softskins.  What could be more personal than some looted (or otherwise) booze that has been liberated from an abandoned pub, or the cellar of a ruined mansion.  Simulated glass can be hard to replicate yourself, but injection moulding or clear resin moulding makes your life a little easier.  Along comes MiniArt with a set of wine bottle AND the crates to put them in.  Not only that, but they come with decals to replicate labels and crate stencils!

 

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Arriving in a figure-sized end-opening box, inside you get six sprues each of transparent green and red styrene, plus twelve sprues in an orange/tan styrene, and you can doubtless guess which ones the crates are made up from.  The transparent sprues have sixteen bottles of two shapes each, giving you 96 green, 96 red bottles and 12 crates in which to put them, if that's your goal.  The decal sheet gives you 144 labels of 9 types, plus 19 stencils for crates, most of which are French, with one type German.  Additionally, you get five German Eagle symbols with the Swastika, although only half of the Swastika is printed, probably to save problems in certain territories where displaying Nazi symbolism is unlawful.  You will have to paint the bottle foils, corks and caps yourself, but that's not too arduous a task, a description that can also apply to the location of the sprue gates on the bottles, which is on their bottoms, so easy to clean up.  If you intend to depict a few on their sides, a touch with a drill bit should make the necessary indent to give the correct look.

 

The crates are the only part of the kit that needs assembly as such, and this is detailed on the back of the box.  The outer surface is built up from four parts, then the divides are made up and it is all brought together with the base to complete the process.  The parts are all textured with wood grain and nail heads, so should respond well to painting and possibly a little dry-brushing to bring out the detail.  Applying the stencils with some decal solution will help them settle down over the texture of the wood, but as they are pleasingly thin, the carrier film should almost disappear after clear coat.

 

Conclusion

A useful addition to any AFV model or diorama that has been carefully thought out to ease construction and finishing.

 

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