It has arrived. I don’t know why I was eagerly waiting for this kit. I love StuGs for sure, but the B seems to have a lot of nice photos with them in action, and while the Tamiya kit was good with some AM, Dragon is still the king and this kit fills in the…
Not a lot of Dragon kits has < 200 parts but this one is it, if you don’t count the Magic I’ve got the Ausf B. in progress and the tracks were on sprue which was a clean up nightmare, but MT makes this kit finishable with less than 10 days. Looks simple enough. I…
Introduction The Ausf G is the last production version of the Panther. Production began around March 1944 until April 1945, with about 3885 produced making it the most numerous of the Panthers. This particular kit depicts the final production model, with a number of distinguished features that separated it from earlier versions, including the “chin”…
This kit is the courtesy of Armorama.com which I did a build review for. Since this was a sample I felt I could try techniques on it, particularly the lacquer chipping with olive drab I learned from TankArt 2. Olive drab is really hard to get right in the sense of making it interesting. So…
This was one of my earliest Dragon purchase and almost a year ago I wrote a brief build review for the kit. In retrospect this wasn’t a good beginner’s kit. The original tooling of this kit was based on ausf G, and to go all the way to A means a lot of changes piling…
The excellent Dragon Tiger I line saw this release of the initial batch of Tiger I to sPz. Abt. 502 of interesting variants. I first bought the excellent book by Volker Ruff Der Tiger vol. 2 detailing the exploits of 502, and the yet-standardized Tiger was quite captivating. The kit included a sprue to create…
To further my practice of weathering I’m doing another Panzer III variant, this time the new-ish Befehlspanzer III ausf. H. There is a very similar DAK variant 6901 that I’ll be building later as well. I’m using the decal options for Panzer regiment 35 with the “BÄRENFÜHRER” or dancing bear insigna. Only after almost finishing…
Now that I have completed the build of the Border Models Panzer IV G, let’s compare them side-by-side. They are really close in execution so I’m going to only point out the differences. Some quick thoughts on the build: One of the prevalent themes of this kit is to ease a number of pain points…
One of the more anticipated armor kits in recent years, the first model by Border Models is the venerable Panzer IV Ausf. G. As I have previously reviewed. The Panzer IV medium tank was the workhorse AFV of the Wehrmacht and produced throughout the war, with over 8500 built, second only to the Stug III. With…