Fukuya-Works are a Japanese company producing a range of metal 1:32 and 1:48 aircraft barrels as well as metal ship barrels in scales 1/200, 250, 350, 500 and 700. They have now released their first two sets of metal barrels in 1:35 scale, the first set #035-01 is a single 2cm Flak 38 barrel and set #035-02 a set of four 2cm Flak 38 barrels for the Flakvieling.

We'll have a brief look at the barrel sets here but to be honest I am not going to waist a lot of time because quite frankly in the day and age with some of the superb 2cm Flak38 barrels available these are simply rubbish, and expensive rubbish at that.

The four barrels in the Flakvieling set, with just one in the single 2cm set

Close-up of the featureless flash suppressor

To sum up they are 1.5mm too long, the flash suppressor is too big and is just a solid lump with no pretext of perforations and is not even fully hollowed out, just an indentation at the tip. The two textured hand grips along the tube are represented as raised sections, well I think you get the picture so there's really not much more to say.

Overall barrel which is 1.5mm too long as well being wrong in every other detail


These barrels by today's standards are simply rubbish and not worth considering at all.

Not recommended

See a full comparison of available FlaK38 barrels which has been updated to include this barrel set.

2cm FlaK38 Muzzle Reference images

German 20mm FlaK in WWII 1395-1945 By Werner Müller Schiffer Military History ISBN: 0-88740-758-7 Soft cover 47 pages

Leichter Zugkraftwagen 1t (Sd.kfz.10) Ausf.A and B and Variants development and production from 1935 to 1945 Panzer Tracts No.22-1 ISBN 0-9815382-5-8 Thomas L. Jentz and Hilary Louis Doyle Includes accurate 1:35 plans of the 2cm Flak 30 and 2cm Flak 38 early and late.

Tamiya Photo Album 4 Tamiya Plastic Model Co. Krupp Protze Flak30, Flak38

2cm FlaK 30/38 Sfl Sd.Kfz.10/4 Wydawnictwo Militaria 172

See the Fukuya-Works website for other products available

Thanks to my credit card for the review set, I think?