Friday, October 15

Preview - All roads lead to... well, Italian Traffic Signs 1930-40’s from Miniart...

We can see it now - a busy Italian road with two combatants arguing about a traffic jam, all we need is - YES! MiniArt's new 35th scale set of "Italian Traffic Signs 1930-40’s". We have the features of the kit and the photos that were used in researching the kit in our preview...
Preview -  All roads lead to... well, Italian Traffic Signs 1930-40s from Miniart...

Italian Traffic Signs 1930-40s
Kit No #35637
1/35th scale
The kit contains plastic and signage for twenty-nine signs
MiniArt has added to their earlier set of road and traffic signs of the 1930s-1940s with this new set of Italian Traffic Signs 1930-40s in 1/35th scale. This new set surely adds depth to our diorama toolset with pre-war (and some post-war in remote signage) options also...

The signs this kit's research was based on...
This lit sign pretty much dead in between Rome and Cassio would be popular signage with modellers...
Another sign, this one closer to Naples than Rome is  similar
These two metal Italian signs are accompanied by German signs. You can get German signage also from MiniArt's range...
The junction between Trieste and Fiume, seen here with german soldiers
A Carabinieri controlling "traffic" in Rome sometime in the late 30s-40s
Another Roman street with signs that were used in this kit. Many signs for no honking horns, no vehicles bikes etc are included to curb your dioramas' traffic.
Pericolo! Attenti al treno - on the railway line, meaning (of course) Danger beware of the train...
Patton speaking with Lt. Col. Lyle Bernard, at Brolo, circa 1943, the sign showing Messina in the background...
A great idea for a diorama, all you have to do is to drill plenty of holes in the sign and decal MiniArt provides 😆.
A customs inspection sign, a common sign of a custom house in Italy or other Mediterranean countries.
The Kit: 1/35th scale Italian Traffic Signs 1930-40s from MiniArt
The kit provides us with twenty-nine signs that you might find on the side of the road in Italy during the '30s and '40s (and maybe beyond that). The decals are provided for the smoothest adhesion to the plastic parts that replicate steel and concrete that you mount these on.

The plastic:
There are six light grey plastic sprues in the kit, these are replicas of the road signs found all around Italy in the 30s & 40s...
Triangle shaped signage for warning signs is here over two sprues, it includes the poles of course! (on the next wto sprues)
The circular and rectangle metal signposts are included over two sprues.
The twenty-nine decals for the signs are included in this pack to give you a very schmick looking signage that looks the part. These are all taken from the examples of the pictures above in this article so accuracy is guaranteed.