- Scale
- 1:72
- Size
- 85 mm
- Category
- Miniature
Pocket Churchill, 1:72
A palm-sized Churchill Mk IV with chipped olive drab and a muddy skirt.
Price
NZ$88
plus shipping from New Zealand
One of one
Ships from New Zealand, wrapped like it's going to war. Shipping: NZ NZ$8, Australia NZ$18, rest of world NZ$30.
Step one, step last
Primer to paint
Every piece starts grey. Here is what the brushwork adds.
True to scale
How small is it?
Photos lie about size. This doesn't: everything below is drawn to the same millimetre ruler.
About 3.2x the length of a $2 coin.
From the workbench
A little brother for the big diorama. At 1:72 the whole tank is about the length of a matchbox, which makes every brushstroke count: there is no room to hide a wobble.
I built it straight from the box and then spent the time on the paint. Olive drab, a pin wash in the panel lines, chipping with a torn piece of sponge, and a band of dried mud along the running gear. The tow cable is fuse wire and the spare track links on the turret are trimmed from the sprue.
It comes on a small square of painted groundwork so it can sit on a desk without rolling off into the keyboard.
— Sunanda