This time it’s a set of Assault Engineers and Goliath. The Goliath looks like a small tank, but it’s actually a wire-controlled, self-propelled explosive delivery vehicle used by the Germans during World War II in their assault engineering units.
It is good that 2 vehicles are included in the kit although they are the same parts. Even SWEET’s 1/144 airplane and Fujimi’s destroyer plastic models had kits with two of these.
I installed a guide for the remote controller cord and the drive sprocket wheel.
This kit also uses a partially connected track. It seems to reproduce slight slack between rolling wheels.
At the same time, three engineer figures are being built. Tamiya’s recent figures are easy to make because their parts fit together perfectly. Arm angles are not ambiguous and difficult to decide.
(2025/08/04)
The assembly is almost complete as I finished winding the track. I haven’t decided how to open and close the panel and the drum reel of the power cord.
I just put a figure together, but the pose is natural, and it has a sense of reality.
I primed it with black.
This time, I chose a single dark yellow color for the body. It reminds me of the Kursk tank battle.
Soldiers with Schmeiser submachine guns and rifles additionally crafted slings of thin firearms. I thought this kit would come with a decal of the soldier’s insignia, but it doesn’t. Attached from separately sold class decal. I’m sure there isn’t, I looked in every corner of the box, at least not in my kit box.
The Goliath is powered by a wired remote control, so the rear of the vehicle? Contains the reels of conductors. The Tamiya kit included copper wire, which is now very valuable. Wind this up. I left one a little longer to connect to the control box of the remote, and wrapped the other full. I think the cord should be painted black.
(2025/08/06)
It was a very interesting kit that used a remote-controlled vehicle to send explosives into enemy territory. Recently, I’ve been making large boxes as much as possible to reduce the number of the plastic models that occupy the room, but these kinds of small items with figures are also interesting.
Of course, the two Goliaths are the main features of this Tamiya kit, but the three combat engineer figures are also nicely molded. I remember that 3D scanning technology was introduced and that was one of the selling points. By scanning actual soldiers and equipment, the researchers are able to faithfully reproduce minute irregularities, fabric wrinkles, and metal textures. By creating a digital prototype based on scan data, it is possible to create a more uniform and sharp mold than conventional hand carving. In other words, mold accuracy is improved. It also scans the movements of real people, so the bending of joints and center of gravity are natural and convincing. That doesn’t mean we don’t need sculptors, though.
This Goliath was driven by electric motor and gasoline engine.
The cord of the remote control extending from the body of the vehicle is made of copper wire, and it can be bent quite well even after painting, so I adjusted the position so that it extends from the box when taking pictures. In the battlefield, it may get caught in various places and break the wire.
Unfortunately, there was limited success in the battlefield. The reason is that if the cable breaks, it is inoperable and can be easily severed by enemy fire or obstacles. And its thin armor makes it vulnerable to gunfire. The speed is slow at about 10 km/h, and it is weak against bumps. It’s expensive, and it’s not cost effective as a disposable weapon. As mentioned above, there were many faults, and it was difficult to achieve results. But it’s like a precursor to modern drones.
But if Goliath is charging into an enemy bunker and somehow loses control, one of its tracks trips on a rock or something and flips 180 degrees toward us, that’s pretty scary. In fact, “the act of being captured by an enemy and used in an opposite way, or unexpected movements due to the terrain, “seems to have been a concern since then as a risk of wired weapons. The Goliath was structurally limited in its ability to turn, so it could have lost its track on a step or flipped out of control…
According to Tamiya, approximately 2,650 units were manufactured between April 1942 and January 1944 and used to attack fixed positions, vehicles, and break through minefields.
I thought it was ironic that Goliath, a giant in the Old Testament, would attach it to such a small weapon. Actually, in order to conceal the performance of the weapon, they sometimes give it the opposite name.Maus is the world’s largest superheavy tank (188 tons), but it is called “mouse. ”. This is clearly ironic and has been described as the humor of developer Dr. Porsche.
This is a cute model of palm size that is easy to assemble and paint without any particular difficulty. Even if it is completed, I have to make sure not to lose them because there are two vehicles, three figures and the tiny control box.
(2025/08/09)
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