Dragon 1/35 Jagdpanzer IV L/70(V) ~ Smart Kit

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- Newly designed side-skirt armor produced in scale thickness
- Newly tooled gun mantlet made from 4-directional slide mold
- Newly tooled fun barrel w/hollow muzzle
- Newly tooled periscope made from clear part
- Gun sight and hand wheels w/well-defined detail
- Gun breech fully detailed
- Newly tooled side denders w/fine detail on both sides
- New superstructure roof rendered w/bolt detail
- Newly tooled rear hull made from slide mold w/great detail
- Commander’s hatch can be assembled open or closed
- Two options for the hatch hinges
- Both one-piece or separate periscope hatch provided to allow open or closed assembly
- Newly tooled rear armor plate
- Newly tooled air intake realistically represented
- Newly tooled spare-wheel brackets w/spare wheels
- Newly designed engine deck w/hatches that can be assembled open or closed
- Brackets for side-skirt armor realistically detailed
- Newly tooled radio set
- Newly tooled hull rear armor w/fine detail
- Extendable jack w/separate parts
- New OVM arrangement
- Two types of exhaust provided as option
- Two types of rear plate newly designed w/great detail
- One-piece lower hull made from slide molds is newly produced
- Sight rail provided as optional separate parts
- Newly tooled MP port on superstructure
- Inside of frontal armor plate w/great bolt details newly tooled
- Newly tooled one-piece superstructure made by slide mold
- Accurately detailed idler adjuster mountings
- Newly tooled convoy light on hull rear
- Travel lock newly reproduced
- New access hatches can be assembled open or closed
- Sprocket and idler wheels w/delicate detail
- Newly tooled Magic Tracks are detailed on both sides
- Resilient steel road wheels and return rollers newly designed
- Road wheels and suspension w/multiple components exhibits crisp detail

The Jagdpanzer concept so popular in Germany during the latter part of WWII created a tank destroyer that was cheaper and quicker to build than a regular turreted tank. The Jagdpanzer IV (Sd.Kfz.162/1) armed with a 7.5cm PaK42 L/70 gun entered production in August 1944. Production eventually reached more than 900 of this vehicle that soon came to be known as ‘Guderian’s Duck’! The vehicle was based on the chassis and drive train of the Panzer IV tank, while the 7.5cm gun without a muzzle brake was mounted in a fixed superstructure. The 25.8-tonne vehicle was popular with its crews thanks to its potent armament, good mobility and low profile, especially in the defensive fighting that characterized the latter part of WWII. The Jagdpanzer IV L/70 saw combat on the Western and Eastern Fronts, with the greatest concentration of vehicles occurring in the Ardennes Offensive.

Like the original Jagdpanzer IV, Dragon’s 1/35 scale kit is based on the chassis of the Panzer IV. Considering the high quality of Dragon’s Panzer IV kits, this is a huge plus. The accurate components of chassis and running gear are combined with a new fighting compartment and engine deck to create this sleek tank destroyer. However, the front two road wheels have been newly tooled so as to represent the resilient road wheels that were used to bear the extra weight imposed by the larger gun and thicker frontal armor. To go with the running gear, brand new lightweight track links are included. The 7.5cm gun is fully represented, including the breech that can be seen through open hatches. The side skirts are innovatively produced in metal to enable a true-to-scale thickness. At the rear end of the vehicle, new exhaust pipes are finely produced by slide molds. This is a distinctive German armored vehicle of WWII, and Dragon’s 1/35 kit is outstanding in its own right!

Detalhes do kit

1/35 D9 Large Full Tracked Dozer VajraMiniatures

Achei que ja tinha visto tudo em materia de modelismo, mas esta insanidade se supera, olha só o tamanho deste monstro.

Figuras da TANK

Red Army III. Summer 1943-45. Two figures.

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Soviet "Maxim" M.G. crew. Summer-winter 1943-45. Two figures.

Soviet "Degtiarev" M.G. crew. Stalingrad, summer 1943. Two figures.

Moment in Time

Quase finalizei a montagem da base, na base usei vegetação de varios fabricantes, a grama e alguns tufos são da Woodland Scenics, as folhas soltas e galhos de pinheiros são da Hudson & Allen, as flores são de uma loja alemã, presente do Airton “JamyBoy” e a agua feita com “Cristal Liquido”, presente do Nelson Varandas, é de fabricação nacional que se acha em loja de artesanato.

As figuras tambem estão quase finalizadas, só faltam alguns detalhes na pintura e o verniz fosco.

Apollo 11

Finalizei a montagem da cápsula Apollo da Real Model Space na escala 1/48, a base foi feita com uma montagem de uma foto da lua com uma sobreposição do símbolo comemorativo dos 40 anos da missão Apollo 11, foi colocado entre dois vidros e aproveitei a moldura como base para o suporte da nave,

Dragon 1/35 PaK 43/3 L/71 mit Behelfslafette

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Detalhes do kit

Features:
- New Pak 43 Gun can be finely presented in both travel or combat style
- Newly tooled Pak 43 gun mount w/authentic detail
- Cruciform legs are fully functional and highly detailed
- One-piece gun barrel
- New gun mantlet
- Gun sleeve is slide molded
- Muzzle brake by slide mold
- Workable breech w/shell insertion possible
- Newly tooled gun cradle offers great internal detail
- Gun-crew seat and hand wheel realistically made
- Newly tooled gun sight w/accurate design
- Full detail for trailer system and fittings
- Individual suspension components
- Goundbreaking injection-molded multi-layered tires w/extreme detail
- Slide-molded one-piece front and rear trailer units

Originally intended as an anti-aircraft weapon, the German 8.8cm cannon (commonly called an ‘eighty-eight’) turned out to be a formidable antitank weapon too. The 8.8cm gun appeared in the guise of the FlaK 18 and FlaK 36/37, which have already appeared in kit form in Dragon’s 1/35 scale range. An even more potent version of this famous gun was the PaK 43, which had an L/71 caliber. This same gun was fitted in the Jagdpanther, Hornisse/Nashorn and Ferdinand/Elefant tank destroyers. A mounted version of the same weapon was fitted in the Kingtiger, where it was known as the KwK 43. The weapon was enormous, measuring 6.4m long, and the ammunition used an 82.2cm-long casing.

Dragon has now released a 1/35 scale kit of the PaK 43/3 L/71, a gun originally destined for insertion in the Jagdpanther tank destroyer. The weapon comes with its Behelfslafette (this German term translates as ‘simplified gun mount’) useful for static defense. This cruciform platform is fully functional, with the legs able to swing up or down. Not only does the kit come with the simplified mount, but there is also a gun carriage based around Sd.Ah.202 limbers designed to transport the weapon and its cruciform mount.

This kit is thus very versatile, allowing modelers to show the cannon in transport mode on wheels, or dismounted ready for combat on its legs! Such an ad hoc arrangement of weapons and simplified construction was typical of the late-WWII period as Germany struggled to field as many antitank weapons as possible to keep its enemies at bay. The massive 8.8cm gun barrel is molded as one piece thanks to slide molds. The breech is workable too, which opens up the possibility of inserting a shell in an action scene. This is a high-quality kit of a rare piece of German artillery, ideal for a dramatic late-war diorama.

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Moment in Time

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Outra vista da base

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