@CWO:
Thanks Cyanight and John – glad you find the identification charts useful. For an actual history of the evolution of the sculpts, I highly recommend knp7765’s photographic inventory, located here…
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=23386.0
…because my I.D. charts approach the subject from a different angle: in almost every case, they simply show one representative sculpt for each nationally-distinctive design produced to depict each unit type that has appeared in A&A over the years. The charts mostly ignore the many variations (some minor and some major) that have been seen in the sculpts – for example, the two versions of the Japanese field artillery piece, which was produced with the undercarriage either folded for towing or deployed for firing. The only exceptions I made were for the Panther tank, the 88mm AAA gun and the Stuka dive-bomber (interestingly, all three being German units) because of the peculiar evolution of those three units over the course of A&A’s production history (especially in the case of the gun and the plane, which started out as completely different – and incorrectly-used – units compared to their current status).
Thanks again Marc, I had forgotten about his thread. this will be very helpful as well. :-)
john
