Tuesday, August 28, 2012 - 11:18 PM UTC
MiniArt is adding to the list of soft skin vehicles available on the market today. The modeller has gone from having a very limited choice of soft skins to a host of injection moulded kits of late and this looks to be another great addition.
The L1500 A 4x4 and L1500 S 4x2 trucks were developed by Mercedes-Benz Company in 1941 and has been faithfully reproduced by MiniArt. let’s hope this one is with us soon. Here is the information that MiniArt provided.

The vehicle was classified same as Steyr 1500A and Horch Typ. The basic type of body became Kfz.70, designed for transporting of 7 person including driver. For bad weather condition the body was equipped with retractable top and canvas panel, which could be settled on doors and sides. Trucks Mercedes-Benz L 1500A with Kfz. 70 were widely used, frequently trucks were as heavy staff cars.

Also different bodies were based on L 1500A and L 1500S chassis, particularly fire trucks, radio cars and ambulances were produced on the L 1500A and L 1500S bases. More often for radio cars and ambulances were used 4x2 chassis.

L 1500A trucks were produced from June of 1941 till July 1943, were produced 4900 trucks. Production of L 1500S started same in June of 1941, but was continued till July of 1944 and were produced 4100 trucks.


35147 - L1500A (Kfz.70) GERMAN PERSONNEL CAR – 1/35th scale
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What a great looking truck. The kit looks to be excellent. This is the sort of thing we could only dream about just a few years ago. Think of the conversion possibilities. Can't wait to get one. Or six.
AUG 29, 2012 - 12:56 AM
Me want!
AUG 29, 2012 - 03:55 AM
Sal I understand your concerns but you know as well as I that some will want the detail included and it is left to the user to decide if thet want to include it or not.
AUG 29, 2012 - 04:43 AM
SWEET! So... Does anyone know whether 1) any of these went to the DAK and Africa, and / or 2) were converted to 2cm flak trucks of the sort we (I) have seen/done with that old Tamiya Horch kit? A newer, more up-to-date kit of the general type could open LOTS of possibilities! Yeah... We armor / WWII types are in a Golden Age indeed! Bob
AUG 29, 2012 - 05:39 AM
Bob, take a look at the photos on this page: valka.cz Crew certainly look to be wearing tropical helmets. Then the bottom photo is stated to be in Tunis. Sal, there's no doubt that some tiny parts are more or less impractical in terms of getting the mould lines cleaned off and trimming the item successfully off the sprue; it can often be much easier creating such parts from stock rod or similar (which has no mould lines or attachment points), but using the kit's moulded component as your guide. Then again, as Darren suggests, some parts can just be left off if they're not really visible.
AUG 31, 2012 - 12:02 AM
Here's some pics.. and a colour template that says with Rommel's Afrika Corps in Libyan desert. http://www.german.o5m6.de/mercedes_1500A.html Hisham
AUG 31, 2012 - 12:53 AM
Matt L. & Hisham; Thanks for posting those pics! Now that DAK use of the mbl1500A is established, now I need a photo showing one wearing a 2cm gun, and I'll be set to GO! PS: The first Valka.CZ pic certainly appears to be a rep of a DAK vehicle - and it's towing one of those "squeeze-bore" 2.8cm SPzB 41 guns on that tiny cart... just as kitted by Bronco! How cool! Bob
AUG 31, 2012 - 01:02 AM
AWESOME!
SEP 01, 2012 - 01:00 PM
This one looks like a huge improvement over the ICM version and also the Tamiya Steyr version. I'm planning to grab an extra one or two of these to see if I can mate the Tamiya kit to one of these. As far as a DAK 2cm version goes while I can't provide photographic proof of one there's definitely enough anecdotal evidence to support the concept. There's a photo around ( I'll try to hunt it out later ) of a 1500 that is fully armoured and mounting a 2cm FlaK 38 but it's hard to tell if it's a Mercedes or a Steyr as you can only see the wheels of the original vehicle ( it's also not DAK ). There's also photos of a Sonderkommando Dora Steyr 1500A mounting the 2cm KWK 38 + MG34 mount from an Sd.Kfz.222 and of course the photos of a Horch 1a with a 2cm FlaK 30 and another with a FlaK 38 so enough to suggest that sticking a 2cm in the back of these types of vehicles wasn't uncommon.
SEP 02, 2012 - 01:28 PM
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