discussion Emhar 1/35 Medium Mark 'A' - Whippet - Inbox Review

[Dave Ward]

Designed in 1917 as a pursuit tank, 200 were made by 1818. It had a top speed of 8mph, a crew of 3 & unusually had an engine driving each track!
Emhar was/is the brand name of Pocketbond, a model mporter. Quite a few models were produced in the last century, including the first 1/35 models of British WWI tanks the heavy tanks were a bit rough, the Whippet being perhaps the best - they were also made in 1/72.
Conventional, if rather flimsy box

Sprue shots

Sprues are clean & crisp, no warpage, or short shots, they remind me of Matchbox mouldings..................the vinyl tracks need work!
A few detail shots



Detail is a bit sparse in places, but as a basic tank it'll be fine
The instructions are a bit cartoonish, but it's only a simple model

Decals

Marking for six versions, including one captured vehicle.
The moulds date back to 1994, they seems to have survived very well ( this boxing is dated 2011 1. It's a very simple model of a simple tank. This was the first widely available 1/35 model of the Whippet. Meng & Takom have since produced modern tooled models, perhaps the greatest improvement is in not using vinyl for the tracks & having individual links! The vinyl one can be made to work, but it takes a lot of effort. Oddly none of the models have any interior..........
Availibility - yes, but prices can vary amazingly from £8.99 to over £25! - It would seem that batches are imported at irregular intervals, leading to feast or famine.
It isn't the most accutrate & detailed of models, but if you can pick it up cheaply, then it's worth the effort - it at least looks like a Whippet
Thanks for looking in!
Dave

 

[Guest]

The kit is not bad, just, like I said earlier, dated in terms of design and detail. It also reminds me a lot of Matchbox, just scaled up to 1:35. The track is by far the worst part of the kit, but easily replaced by something better. The rest of the detail is reasonable, but if you want an accurate model you will need to enhance or outright replace a lot of it, as well as build all kinds of missing features — not least the stowage boxes on the rear corners and the canvas mudguards that were suspended above the tracks from hooks and springs. That said, what you get straight from the box is a decent representation of the tank, just a bit coarse, even by the standards of when it was new.

As far as the decals are concerned: A347 Firefly is the tank preserved in the Royal Army Museum in Brussels, while A259 Caesar II is the one in Bovington. The former is still in its original paint today, the latter has been repainted. The other three British tanks are, I think, based on photographs from the First World War, while the German crosses would be suitable for the one or two Whippets they captured and tested, but never used in action.

 

[Richard48]

Designed in 1917 as a pursuit tank, 200 were made by 1818. It had a top speed of 8mph, a crew of 3 & unusually had an engine driving each track!
Emhar was/is the brand name of Pocketbond, a model mporter. Quite a few models were produced in the last century, including the first 1/35 models of British WWI tanks the heavy tanks were a bit rough, the Whippet being perhaps the best - they were also made in 1/72.
Conventional, if rather flimsy box

Sprue shots

Sprues are clean & crisp, no warpage, or short shots, they remind me of Matchbox mouldings..................the vinyl tracks need work!
A few detail shots



Detail is a bit sparse in places, but as a basic tank it'll be fine
The instructions are a bit cartoonish, but it's only a simple model

Decals

Marking for six versions, including one captured vehicle.
The moulds date back to 1994, they seems to have survived very well ( this boxing is dated 2011 1. It's a very simple model of a simple tank. This was the first widely available 1/35 model of the Whippet. Meng & Takom have since produced modern tooled models, perhaps the greatest improvement is in not using vinyl for the tracks & having individual links! The vinyl one can be made to work, but it takes a lot of effort. Oddly none of the models have any interior..........
Availibility - yes, but prices can vary amazingly from £8.99 to over £25! - It would seem that batches are imported at irregular intervals, leading to feast or famine.
It isn't the most accutrate & detailed of models, but if you can pick it up cheaply, then it's worth the effort - it at least looks like a Whippet
Thanks for looking in!
Dave

Nice review Dave.Maybe you could print some tracks off 3d but i guess its resin prints for tracks.Ssw one in our local shop today but theres is 27 quid.
Richard

 

[David Lovell]

Thanks Dave nice review, must drag the net see whats about ,as you say looks like a whippet so good enough id box bash it lots of nuts bolts and rivets to make it a interesting paint job. Dave

 

[stillp]

Nice review Dave.Maybe you could print some tracks off 3d but i guess its resin prints for tracks.Ssw one in our local shop today but theres is 27 quid.
Richard

Now I wish I'd bought the two at the MAFVA show at £4 each!
Pete

 

[Mini Me]

Thanks for the show and tell Dave....even though it's not my scale, I always enjoy the show. :thumb2: