01 - What's in the box - Panther Ausf.G

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March 26, 2020
just for start, the box! Italeri say is re-releasing it big German Panther, with updates. According to the website the moulds are fully upgraded and the kit contains a fret of photo-etched, link-by-link track, and metal tow cable.
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March 26, 2020
this is the box inside
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the parts labeled by Dragon
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The Spue A - The lower hull / wheels sprue is the same old Italeri one (complete with "thin" rubber tyres) that is in all their older Panther variants.
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The Sprue B - The upper hull sprue is totally new in Italeri, but old in Dragon with Panther F (kit #9008) from 1994 slightly revised in the side of the Radio-operator periscope
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The Sprue C - the turret sprue is only slightly revised from the old Panther A kit (the ventilator is now separate). I'd be interested to know if they revised the muzzle brake to have some detail.
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The Sprue CC (5x) - the track link sprues are new in Italeri kits, but old in Dragon with Panther F (kit #9008) from 1994
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The Sprue D (2x) another sprue who comes from the Panther F (kit #9008) but with the steel wheels cut out
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Photoetched parts - The PE fret is totally new and made for this kit who represents the panthers of Sesto Imolese
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Steel Cables (2x)
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Decals - 26 Pz. Div. Italy, April 1945. The 3 tanks of this set of decals were destroyed near Sesto Imolese on 15/16 April 1945

26 March 2020, 01:30

Matthew Stec
How do you like the kit?

26 March 2020, 09:45

Rafael Lang 著者
Hi Matthew, I have found it to be a good kit, I've always loved Italeri kits since I was a little boy! I think they are good for scratching, texturing and having fun while building! people today say that they are terrible kits because brands like Dragon, Takom, Meng, RFM, etc ... come from a new generation of models, with new technologies, a lot of money to invest in these technologies, new accesses that did not exist thirty years ago, etc! but I consider them good, maybe I'm nostalgic, but I like it!

26 March 2020, 16:09

Matthew Stec
I have been away from modelling for 35 years. I always liked there kits.
Thanks

26 March 2020, 16:59

Rafael Lang 著者
Matthew, so they are almost where you left off! little changed in the construction mode, but still in the same kit style! hehehehe

26 March 2020, 18:16