Campaigns Administrator
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I am in with a Dragon StuG A should fit the bill. panzer anthrocite grey with brown. This build should be barrels fo fun.
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Looks interesting and certainly on topic!
Michael
Maybe,I just picked up a Dragon Pz.kpfw(t)Ausf G with an interior I would like to try out.
), but, alas, NOT right for "Fall Gelb"! Anthony C.;Quoted TextMaybe,I just picked up a Dragon Pz.kpfw(t)Ausf G with an interior I would like to try out.
Uh oh!
Sadly, I must give a "wet-blanket incoming!" warning!
That Dragon 38(t) G kit is, IMHO, a super nice kit and a cool subject (I'm a 38(t) fan
The 38(t) ausf G only came out from late SEP or early OCT 1941, so missed Fall Gelb by more than a year...
There were indeed several hundred 38(t) in Fall Gelb - all were ausf A - D tanks - the 38(t) versions which had that stepped driver's front plate - not the "flat face" that the later E, F, S, and G tanks had. No flat-face 38(t) before NOV 1940.
So.... IF you want a legit "Fall Gelb 38" in 1/35 styrene - you are pretty much limited to doing either the elderly Maquette B kit, or one of the two super nice (IMHO) Tristar B kits. I HIGHLY recommend the Tristar kits, having built some. Kit 026 is the B without interior. Kit 039 is the B with complete inners. VERY cool. Tristar's B kits allow you to build a gun-tank, or a Pz.BefehlsWagen version (Perhaps also the Maquette kit does, but I don't know about that kit).
Note that ausf A, B, C, and D all looked very similar and shared the key visible feature of that stepped front plate. Differences were largely pretty small details - so you can build a fairly good A, C, or D from a B kit with some detail work.
Go grab a "B" kit and jump in with it!
Bob
) it is pretty darned CHEAP - I see them on the evilbay getting shipped to the door for about 27 USD - a hard price to beat for a fair 1/35 tank kit at my door, IMO! 
) Turns out that there are indeed a lot of options available in the kit - add-on armor, antenna, rear box, etc. It can get a bit confusing, as of course Dragon is not good with telling one which combination of optional bits fits when and in which theater.... and I wanted also to fix other stuff about the kit... so...! John;
Don't know anything about that CMK Pz.35(t) kit (other than the subject would be very appropriate for Fall Gelb!), but that Dragon "Kleiner" kit is, in my book, both a cool subject and a nice kit - chock full of options and lots of good detail and mostly a good build.
I actually have one mostly done (maybe a good candidate for that "unfinished business Campaign" - it has been a fun, if somewhat looong, build experience. Why so looong? a guy might ask...
The SdKfz 265 PzBefWgn I-B did indeed serve in Fall Gelb - (and in Poland, the Balkans, Greece, north Africa, Russia, etc.) - and it went through various detail changes and mods (All of the versions in the pictured kit are post-Poland types - the Kleiner in Poland sometimes still came without the top cupola - another Dragon kit captures that earlier version very well...). Some of which come in the kit. So, what I am saying is: I would heartily recommend it as a good kit of a good Fall Gelb subject, but DO the homework - look at photos - if you want to get near to doing up one which actually did serve in F-G in 1940!
Cheers!
Bob
I know it's not 1st Jan yet, but can I start now???
Quoted TextI know it's not 1st Jan yet, but can I start now???
Eager, aren't we! I'll bet that a few Landsers were itching to get on with things soonest back in May 1940, what with months of "Sitzkrieg" behind them, but jumping the gun by most of 3 months? That's World Class eagerness, mate, World Class!
Heck. I haven't even really decided what I'll try to build for this one, yet! Why rush things? I still have two+ months to vacillate in!
Nice to see everyone's eager to start. I've consoled myself by doing a few figures while I'm waiting to start the dio which keeps changing in my head. The scenery I've worked out it's just which vehicles which I'm holding off on...lol. It's gone from a couple of Pz IV's to an Sdkfz 7 and 88 and lorries. Still 2 1/2 months to think about it...lol
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