MiniArt Vegetables & Wooden Crates (35629) 1:35

[Mike]

Vegetables & Wooden Crates (35629)

1:35 MiniArt via Creative Models Ltd

 

 

MiniArt’s diorama accessories series grows every month, and if you had them all they’d make a stash all on their own!  This time we’re looking at crated veggies for placing in shops, stalls, wagons and vans hither and yon for your next model.  This set arrives in a shrink-wrapped figure box with a painting of the contents on the front and brief instructions on the rear.  There are six sprues in grey styrene in the box, a painting and assembly guide on the rear, accompanied by a paint chart that has swatches of colour, Vallejo, Mr Color, AK RealColor, Mission Models, AMMO, Tamiya, as well as colour names below.

 

 

Four of the sprues contain parts for four two-part double-high boxes with their second layers formed by adding an extra rectangular wall section with grab handles at the top to the shallow box that has a moulded-in bottom that has fine wooden planking moulded-in.  The two larger sprues are identical and contain a ton of vegetables, both in tray-shaped arrangements, and as individual veg. that can be scattered around your scene, or used to augment and differentiate between the stacks inside the boxes.  From the box you can build the following:

 

2 x Eggplant

2 x Bell Pepper

2 x Potatoes

2 x Cucumber

2 x Onion

2 x Carrot

2 x Tomato

2 x Beet

 

Outside the boxes, you also get the following loose vegetables:

 

2 x Pumpkin (rotund)

2 x Pumpkin (pear-shaped)

12 x Potato

6 x Tomato

6 x Eggplant

6 x Onion

6 x Bell Pepper

6 x Cucumber

 

In total you can build sixteen double-height crates, and the tray-shaped veggies have short feet in their underside corners to give the impression of greater quantities without making over-thick parts that would be subject to concerns about sink-marks.  If you nip the legs off in some boxes, they can instantly give the impression of lesser quantities.  You will have to deal with the seams on the two-part pumpkins, but a flooding of liquid glue followed by pressure on the seams to exude a bead of plastic melted by the glue should make that an easy task.

 

 

Conclusion

As usual, sculpting and moulding are excellent, and these accessories will help to bring your models and dioramas to life with careful painting and the addition of satin or gloss varnish to give them the correct patina.

 

Highly recommended.

 

 

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[Vince1159]

They look brilliant and not a bit of shrinkwrap or plastic in sight...

[Mike]

22 minutes ago, Vince1159 said:

They look brilliant and not a bit of shrinkwrap or plastic in sight...

better days It's just a shame I couldn't think of any of the shout-outs that barra-boys used to use.

[Vince1159]

1 hour ago, Mike said:

better days It's just a shame I couldn't think of any of the shout-outs that barra-boys used to use.

A bit of scratch building and the limits are endless with those,French market dio for instance or a WWII era "Dig for Victory" set in Blighty....

 

Edit: Thinking about it they'd also work with Corgi's 1/36 scale vans like the Escort and Merc,plenty around cheap so an 80's dio in a London Market would work as well,get DelBoys Capri Ghia ,open the tailgate and he could be there as well...

Edited December 20, 2021 by Vince1159