Stefan Halter shares with us a comparison build feature of the 3 jeeps available from Bronco Models, Dragon Models, and Tamiya, and then shares his thoughts on these kits.

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Thanks!

Stefan

Excellent.
Followed it from the beginning, very informative.
Going to have to get me a Bronco kit, love the Tamiya, tried
the Dragon kit once .
Thanks again for such a informative feature.
Dave

Hi Stefan,

Excellent builds and a very handy article for reference.

Enjoyed the blog to.

Cheers

Al

Thanks for getting this up, Darren! Once again, thanks for the magnificient work you are doing for the site!

Thanks for the comments guys! It was fun doing it, may do it again with somethin else one day.

For those of you who would like to follow the discussions in the Build log (and have missed it) here is the link.

Cheers!
Stefan

Good job getting this finished. The Ford story is definitely a curious one

Great feature, Stefan. No surprise that Bronco kit is the best, but I am a bit surprised that Dragon is THAT bad!

Thanks guys!




Don't get me wrong, it's not THAT bad, it just doesn't offer any advantage over the other two.

Great work Stefan !! Very Nice finished Models and very, very interesting comparison test... Especially as I am -slowly- building two tamiya jeeps in order To "up date" them with a Nice résine set from Legend, and a bronco jeep is on Its Way to me via air mail... BRAVO and once again congratulations.

Wow, this is simply one of the best features we've had on Armorama in some time! GREAT work, Stefan. Terrific detail, superb layout of the build, and some excellent information that will make picking kits much easier for most of us. Thanks!

Great article and thanks for putting it all together for us.

Excellent comparisons on all 3! Had been contemplating buying the DML, but now my money would be better spent on Bronco.

Very good comparison, thanks for the work Stefan!
Great to see the parts next to each other, in many cases that explains more than many words.
Very thorough article on my favorite subject! I have the Tamiya one, and the next is going to be Bronco...
Cheers
Alex

Awesome article Stefan!

I'm going to be picking up a Bronco kit in the near future and I've got a 1:1 scale 42 GPW in my garage right now. My question though is how does the old Italeri kit compare? I know that the three kits reviewed here are far newer and incorporate a lot of better mold making technology since the Italeri showed up two decades ago.

Thanks!

Jon

Thank you for the nice comments, gentlemen! I am glad to have been of help.

Jon, can't really say about the Italeri kit. I only built the commandocar long time ago and as I remember it wasn't a bad kit, but not as good as Tamiya. With a bit of TLC I'm sure it can be brought up to speed and versions of it are still widely available and for good prices too.

Cheers!
Stefan

Hi Stefan,

A very informative article and 3 great results. You put a lot of time and effort into the comparison which will be of great benefit to many.

Congrats on a fine article.

Al