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Hobby Boss' Sd.Kfz222 - Part 2
jimbrae
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Posted: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - 09:39 PM UTC
As promised, the Second Part of the photo-report on the new model of their Sd.Kfz 222 from Hobby Boss. The Photo-Report can be seen:

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!

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Posted: Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 01:51 AM UTC
If you had to only choose one model of this armoured car from the ones available I guess this would be the one.

Shame Tristar didn't get their version out earlier as it was a welcome new kit after the old Tamiya model but this one seems to be a step up again in detail.

Dimensional accuracy, angles of sloping plates etc. I'll leave to those who know more about this variant but as a model kit it looks excellent.

Oh, and yes the box art is also very nice.

Wonder what the price will work out to be.

Alan
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Posted: Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 03:25 AM UTC

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Shame Tristar didn't get their version out earlier as it was a welcome new kit after the old Tamiya model but this one seems to be a step up again in detail.


Considering that this Hobby Boss one will probably be a month or more before we see it here on North American soil, and that the Tristar one is out now......I am a little perplexed by this statement.

Would be interesting to see a side by side comparison between the 2, but the Tristar one will probably have 2-3 months sales on the market before this one even hits.
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Posted: Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 06:00 AM UTC
Any word on pricing yet? Looks like the aftermarket guys will need to do a machine gun ammo boxes for this one too along with a radio.

Chris "toadman" Hughes
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Posted: Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 11:46 AM UTC

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Shame Tristar didn't get their version out earlier as it was a welcome new kit after the old Tamiya model but this one seems to be a step up again in detail.


Considering that this Hobby Boss one will probably be a month or more before we see it here on North American soil, and that the Tristar one is out now......I am a little perplexed by this statement.

Would be interesting to see a side by side comparison between the 2, but the Tristar one will probably have 2-3 months sales on the market before this one even hits.


Perplexed, how so Scott . Tristar before they had their business problems announced this kit months ago, maybe going on a year even and showed preview shots of the built model if I remember correctly. Had they been able to get it to market at that time I'm sure they would have sold alot of them, and I would have been one of them. On seeing the Hobbyboss kit pictures I'd now not buy the Tristar one and wait , even if it is a couple of months for the higher detailed Hobbyboss kit, and I figure others will do just the same, after all many can afford the wait, its not like they haven't got plenty of other kits in the stash to build while they are waiting

Alan
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Posted: Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 03:45 PM UTC
How is the quality of the Hobby Boss kits , generally speaking?
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