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Italeri Sd.Kfz.10/5 with FLAK 38
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England - South East, United Kingdom
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Posted: Sunday, March 10, 2013 - 08:05 AM UTC
Out of stock for some time, Italeri bring back their late '90s Sd.Kfz.10/5 Demag D7 with FLAK 38.



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Ironmike
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Posted: Sunday, March 10, 2013 - 05:09 PM UTC
Decent enough older kit but how about something fresh. This kit (I built it several years ago) has some old style issues and needs a facelift and a tuck or two. I hope these guys aren't getting like Hollyweird and cranking out remakes of old, stale stuff.
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Posted: Monday, March 11, 2013 - 01:25 AM UTC
Italeri is the King of re-releases! they have been doing it for 30 years!
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Posted: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 12:35 AM UTC
and for around $33 too! I have one of these in the stash with all the Eduard and Extratech sets. I also collected some extra Dragon 250 suspension and tracks to put on it. I had tried to sell mine a while back for around $35 with no bites, so I cant imagine this being a huge seller for them with the Dragon kit only slightly more on the second-hand market.

Ill probably just build mine with the various extras. I did the same to the Italeri 10/4 about 8 years ago , and it turned out pretty nice. The Eduard set adds quite a bit to the basic kit, though it doesn't fix the sprocket/track issues.

I had read somewhere that the suspension is a bit compressed too.. but when I built my 10/4 it looked fine to me (I didn't take calipers to it though!). Anybody verify this?

here is the 10/4:





yeah, I know the tracks are floating...someday ill fix it.

Andy
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