MiniArt Wooden Pallets (35627)

[Mike]

Wooden Pallets (35627)

1:35 MiniArt via Creative Models Ltd

 

 

You may have seen our review of the recent Hand Pallet Truck Set, well now we bring you the subset of that set, which like Sand People are back but in larger numbers, as Obi Wan predicted.  This set arrives in a shrink-wrapped figure box with a painting on the front and brief instructions on the rear, and contains twelve sprues of pallets, with one pallet per sprue, plus a small decal sheet for the stamps found on the sides of the pallets.

 

 

The construction is simple, but clever.  The top surface is moulded as a single part, while the lower section is moulded as three parts joined together with three spacer bars that are cut off after the two sections are joined together.  Each rod narrows at the end so that clean-up will be minimal, although you have to be careful with them as the joins are necessarily quite weak.  Holding one plank while gluing them one at a time over the little guide markings on the upper part seems to work, leaving clean-up of the sprue gates and spacers until after the glue has set.  The wood grain moulded into the parts is typical of the rough but tough wood used to make pallets, and the small decals for the ends can represent the heat branding easily thanks to their small size.

 

 

For the pallet nerds amongst us here, the pallets scale out to 800mm x 1200mm, which is the equivalent to EUR1 in the Euro Pallet table, and ISO1 in the ISO pallet table.  Isn’t that nice?   The decals are correct for the type, and they are shown in the correct places too, which shows some serious attention to detail that must have been acquired with the aid of copious cups of coffee to avoid nodding off!  Whether the nail holes are moulded in the correct manner, and if there are 75 of them is for you to research, as I’ve had enough and need a snooze.

 

 

 

Conclusion

A dozen pallets for your post WWII diorama.  Not very exciting, but necessary if you’re depicting any kind of storage, shipping or factory type sceen.

 

Highly recommended.

 

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[bentwaters81tfw]

I just got a set of these, with the Street Fruit Shop, Hessian Bags/Sacks and plastic barrels. Plus a 20' container. Still waiting for some M/E and  Central Asian punters and a stallholder.

They look silly with Afghans, French Civilians or Soviet WWII peasants.