Background

A new resin manufacturer to me, YS Masterpieces is headed by Yiannis Sagiadinos from Greece and specialize in ships, figures and are now getting into diorama pieces. They have a web site www.ysmasterpieces.com and kits may be ordered direct from them.

The Bases

The two gun emplacements are similar but 72004 has a small alcove on one side with a separate log roof and sand bags around some of the walls above the timber wall supports. Both have a timber hard stand for the gun and crew.

The casting is very delicate and well detailed but not to the point of distracting from the models placed on them. Any 1/72nd scale gun could be used, anti tank, anti aircraft or field artillery, although perhaps not the bigger pieces such as the German  21 cm Morser or K 18.

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German / Soviet are specified on the box top but I believe guns from any nation would be appropriate on these bases. Some careful painting, a nice gun crew and any thing is possible.

The third piece, 72005, titled Modern Scenery, is a small bit of bitumen road-way complete with curb, footpath and concrete rendered brick wall, could be used in many ways. I don't know that there is anything in it that makes it modern necessarily except perhaps for the paving stone foot-way and depending on how it was painted and weathered could play host to any modern or not so modern vehicle of an appropriate size.

It has a small metal drain grid by the curb, a man whole cover in the road centre and some of the concrete rendering is chipped off the wall showing bricks underneath. It's slightly bigger than the other two, 135mm X 118mm X 36mm, so a bigger vehicle such as an Abrams, Challenger, Leopard II or similar would fit, however, a Tiger I or II or maybe even a Panther would not look out of place.

Like the first two, the moulding is very clean in light-grey resin and although there is not a lot of detail what's there is very crisp.

Conclusion

These three from YS Masterpieces are very well detailed and executed. They just need a bit of imagination on the part of the modeller to become a show stopping masterpiece.

Thanks to YS Masterpieces for the Review samples

YS Masterpieces' kits, accessories and figures are available online from their website