Ultimate Miniatures
N Scale WWII Tanks

Product Review

By Ken van Pelt

We asked this company for some samples of their WWII line of vehicles. We received four tanks and one wheeled vehicle. The Tanks include:
German Tiger E Tank DN 103
German Pz IV F2 Tank DN-102
German Pz III M (short 75mm gun) DN-132
American M-4 Sherman Tank DN-107

All of these tanks are really good versions of the model they portray and will work very well for wargaming. Each tank comes with a detached and movable turret. This was a nice touch for this scale. The tread detail is good to fair on the models. The U.S. M-4 Sherman has one side of the tank's treads that seem to have cast weakly. The detail on the other side is crisp and strongly cast. There is substantial flash on the turrets of the samples. This would be tough work for a x-acto but quite simple for a dremel. The wheeled vehicle sample was a German VW Kfz-l jeep, no canvas top DN-114. This is a really good model with cast crew in the vehicle. Detail is very crisp on the Kfz, and the flash is minimal to non-existent! I would recommend the Ultimate Miniatures as a very viable line of WWII miniatures. In my opinion the vehicles rate better than Micro armor for scale because the infantry can be included with a game and not as an afterthought. This is a good scale.

Here is a list of the available vehicles for WWII. We reviewed several tank models of interest to our club. All are N-Gauge.

TANKS (All Tanks cost $2.50 each)
German Pz IV D Tank DN-101
German Pz IV F2 Tank DN-102
German Tiger E Tank DN 103
German Wespe Anti-personnel gun DN-104
British Mark II Matilda Tank DN-105
British Valentine III Tank DN-106
American M-4 Sherman Tank DN-107
German Pz III M (short 75mm gun) DN-132
German Pz III J (long 50mm Gun) DN-133
American M3 Stuart Tank DN-134

WHEELED VEHICLES (All Vehicles cost $1.25 each)
Motorcycle and rider (bag of 5) DN-111
Motorcycle with side car DN-112
German VW Kfz-l jeep, canvas top DN-113
German VW Kfz-l jeep, no canvas top DN-114
American M-38a jeep DN-115
German Opel Blitz truck, flat bed DN-116
American 6x6 M-34 truck, flat bed DN-117
German SD Kfz-251 half-track, open cab DN-118
Same, armored cab DN-119
Same, armored cab, flat bed DN-120
American M-3 Half-track, flat bed DN-121
British Crosley armored car DN-122
Body with canvas cover for supply units DN-123
Body with light antitank/personnel gun DN-124
Personnel carrier bed, transverse seats (for German trucks & half tracks) DN-125
Armored turret, MG, supply body, (makes armored cars/trucks,etc) DN-126

Ultimate Miniatures
P.O. Box 3959
Visalia, CA 93278-3959
http://www.ultimateminiatures.com/

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