Review of VLS Verlinden 1/35th Scale Resin 3 Soviet Tank Crewmen
Set no. Unknown
By Ray Mehlberger
Out of production
Verlinden is located in San Jose, CA and has a web site.
By Ray Mehlberger
Out of production
Verlinden is located in San Jose, CA and has a web site.
VLS resins sets are short run products, made with rubber molds rather than steel ones that are used to mold plastic parts. These molds have a short life and wear out after a few thousand shots.
Figures molded this way by VLS are seamless, but have pour lugs that have to be removed, as you can readily see here. Also, the parts should be washed with soap and water to remove any mold release from them. Which at times runs heavy. The pour lugs are best removed with a razor saw and the attachment point then sanded smooth.
This set consists of 12 tan resin parts. The 3 figures are divided into sepoerate heads with leather tanker's helmets, torsos and arms. They are molded only from the hips upward, so as to later pose them in open hatches of a tank. They are all wearing the Gimnastika pull over shirt.
Detail is quite high.
I got this set willed to me along with many other VLS sets by a fellow modeler who died of cancer years ago.
Figures molded this way by VLS are seamless, but have pour lugs that have to be removed, as you can readily see here. Also, the parts should be washed with soap and water to remove any mold release from them. Which at times runs heavy. The pour lugs are best removed with a razor saw and the attachment point then sanded smooth.
This set consists of 12 tan resin parts. The 3 figures are divided into sepoerate heads with leather tanker's helmets, torsos and arms. They are molded only from the hips upward, so as to later pose them in open hatches of a tank. They are all wearing the Gimnastika pull over shirt.
Detail is quite high.
I got this set willed to me along with many other VLS sets by a fellow modeler who died of cancer years ago.
I am willing to sell this set of figures for the right price + postage.