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Dragon: Panzer III Ausf.K
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 01:05 PM UTC


Dragon has a new variant of the Panzer III in its 1/35 scale series of kits, the Panzer III Ausf.K, a tank type that did not actually make it all the way into series production.

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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 08:18 PM UTC
Hmmmm...what's next, an experimental Tiger l turret mated to a Pz ll chassis?
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 09:04 PM UTC

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Hmmmm...what's next, an experimental Tiger l turret mated to a Pz ll chassis?


It's too bad they didn't make that version. It looks sweet.

Say, I thought it was the Tiger II Porche turret that was tested!
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 10:43 PM UTC

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Hmmmm...what's next, an experimental Tiger l turret mated to a Pz ll chassis?


It's too bad they didn't make that version. It looks sweet.

Say, I thought it was the Tiger II Porche turret that was tested!


No. No. It was a turret, from the Scharnhorst mounted on eight kt chassis.
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Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 01:45 AM UTC

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No. No. It was a turret, from the Scharnhorst mounted on eight kt chassis.


Must have been the Gneisenau as Scharnhorst was sunk intact in 1943.
A couple of Gneisenau's triple turrets ended up as fortifications in Norway. ModelCollect is releasing a kit of that in 1/72.
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Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 02:21 AM UTC

http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/nazi_germany/german-tank-based-railway-guns





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Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 03:28 AM UTC
I built the Pz Bef III K and liked the look. I might put this one on the list since I like look. Do a what-if scheme.
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Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 04:23 AM UTC
Big BOOM!!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Gneisenau-1.jpg
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Posted: Friday, April 13, 2018 - 08:00 PM UTC
I'm somewhat confused by this one: while the Pz II K with the 75mm gun might not have been produced the Befehls version with the 50mm L60 was very much a production vehicle albeit in limited numbers. Fifty were produced and saw service until sometime in 1944 when they were largely replaced by Pz IVs in this role. Indeed, Dragon had (of course!) released an earlier version of this kit under #9018 that had in its initial release so many extras on its assorted sprues that you could build almost any Pz III variant from it. I bought a couple.
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Posted: Sunday, April 15, 2018 - 02:59 AM UTC
Ridiculous. Another one-off. And all the while we're waiting for a North African F or G, a later Beobachtung with turret skirts or even the late L "001" Brigitte (with the quirky sprockets) Befehls used by 12th Pz Div in Operation Casar. Instead they give us this. Just ridiculous.
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Posted: Sunday, April 15, 2018 - 04:14 AM UTC

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Ridiculous. Another one-off. And all the while we're waiting for a North African F or G, a later Beobachtung with turret skirts or even the late L "001" Brigitte (with the quirky sprockets) Befehls used by 12th Pz Div in Operation Casar. Instead they give us this. Just ridiculous.


Funny thing is, all the parts exist, just not necessarily in the same box. Boggles the mind.

A new decal sheet and shift some parts around and *boom*

But instead another one off? There some kind of obsession with prototype/paper panzers somewhere? Wait, is this in WOT?

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Posted: Sunday, April 15, 2018 - 04:33 AM UTC

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Ridiculous. Another one-off. And all the while we're waiting for a North African F or G, a later Beobachtung with turret skirts or even the late L "001" Brigitte (with the quirky sprockets) Befehls used by 12th Pz Div in Operation Casar. Instead they give us this. Just ridiculous.


Funny thing is, all the parts exist, just not necessarily in the same box. Boggles the mind.

A new decal sheet and shift some parts around and *boom*

But instead another one off? There some kind of obsession with prototype/paper panzers somewhere? Wait, is this in WOT?



As far as kit bashing goes, you can make pretty much any variant.
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Posted: Sunday, April 15, 2018 - 05:56 AM UTC

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Ridiculous. Another one-off. And all the while we're waiting for a North African F or G, a later Beobachtung with turret skirts or even the late L "001" Brigitte (with the quirky sprockets) Befehls used by 12th Pz Div in Operation Casar. Instead they give us this. Just ridiculous.


Funny thing is, all the parts exist, just not necessarily in the same box. Boggles the mind.

A new decal sheet and shift some parts around and *boom*

But instead another one off? There some kind of obsession with prototype/paper panzers somewhere? Wait, is this in WOT?


Yeah, it was added to WoT 1-2 years ago IIRC.
Long after I quit the game, but I've always thought it was nice looking, and personally I've wanted a kit of it for quite a while.

Granted, it's Dragon (overpriced... Over 100$ CAD from my LHS, minimum 75$ CAD on eBay most likely), so It'll take me a while to bother getting the kit, if at all.
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