Matchbox Vehicles For Back of Beyond & Red Actions!

The PKZ-2 tender vehicle in the previous post is one of the Matchbox Models of Yesteryear series.  These can be purchased cheaply (if you’re patient) on E-Bay.  Bought several for the Back of Beyond Campaign, one of which is shown below.

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The problem is that the series is not in a consistent scale.  There are a wide variety of vehicles, in a wide variety of scales.  This page summarizes them by model number, name and scale.  So what scale matches up best with 25/28mm figures?  This page from The Miniatures Page really helped.

Once purchased and primed, I sprayed the vehicles a military green, and then just went crazy with brown and green dry brushing.  Wood blocks and barrels purchased at Hobby Lobby and mounted on bases – pallets –  are cargo used either in vehicles, or on the ground as part of a supply dump.  Machine gun and cannons purchased from Pulp Figures (Bob Murch) mounted as required.

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