Review of VLS Verlinden 1/35th Scale Set no. 216 Resin Standing German Panzergrenadier
By Ray Mehlberger
Out of production
Verlinden is located in San Jose, CA and has a web site.
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 tan resin set consists of 6 parts. The figure is divided up into seperate head with steel helmet, body, ankles with shoes. Pants are bloused into low shoes. He is wearing a long leather coat. His belt has 6 pouches on it and he is carrying a machine gun ammo case in each hand. However, there is no machine gun. I have several German machine guns in my spares box, so will supply him with one.
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 tan resin set consists of 6 parts. The figure is divided up into seperate head with steel helmet, body, ankles with shoes. Pants are bloused into low shoes. He is wearing a long leather coat. His belt has 6 pouches on it and he is carrying a machine gun ammo case in each hand. However, there is no machine gun. I have several German machine guns in my spares box, so will supply him with one.
I got this figure and a lot of other VLS sets willed to me by a fellow modeler who died of cancer years ago.
I am willing to sell him for a good price + postage.