Tumbling Dice's 1/76 7.7cm Feldkanone 96 n.A.

Tumbling Dice is a firm that caters for the Wargaming community, and that is pretty obvious. One of their offerings is a kit of the 7.7cm Feldkanone 96 n.A., the work horse of the German Artillery during WW1. It is NOT one of their better offerings. It is generally too SMALL, with wheels, carraige and barrel being underscale or too short. It has representations of both cranking wheels - well, one - and dial sight, but these are moulded as one with the barrel and pretty crude. It also lacks a lot of detail, but that is only to be expected.

If you ignore the scale problems, it could probably be turned into a model looking a bit like the original, but that would take a LOT of work. And I don't think it's worth it, frankly, now that EMHAR has made their fine version of the Fk 96 n.A.

It also takes me to a pet peeve: the general low quality of the WW1 Artillery kits in this scale. In many instances, you get the feeling that the mould maker hasn't worked from a set of scale plans at all, but simply winged it from a set of photographs, producing a sort of stylized version of the gun in question, imitating it's main features. The main problem is probably that good references are really hard to get, something that I will try to remedy in some small measure here on the Landships site.