Is that 1/72 "Black Label"?

I love that "glacis rendered in correct profile and shape" Be just like them to have this one perfect in proportions just to piss 1/35 scale guys off.

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I love that "glacis rendered in correct profile and shape" Be just like them to have this one perfect in proportions just to piss 1/35 scale guys off.

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Err, Dragon's marketing has said all the Black Label kits are completly accurate since the line was first started. It's nothing new and I don't think it will start becoming the truth for this release.

Also the Black label Atomic Annie 1/72 is a little gem so there is hope they get the braille right.

Expensive "little gem".

Selective corrections.

The peak in the turret roof is there, but the bulge for the original gunner's seat on the underside of the turret is still woefully wrong, yet "detailed".

There is a pip on the turret roof that is nominally the electrical connection point for the searchlight that only shows up on the 103A2.

The rectangular access plate on top of the turret is still really poorly represented and the fact that the exhaust shroud comes moulded in means that there is no exhaust detail at all.

The sight bulges on the turret sides are moulded in place, so the undercut of the actual dome shape is missed entirely.

The lifting rings are nicely moulded as separate parts yet the tow rope is moulded to the top of the fenders.

Meh.

Paul

If this keeps up I'm not buying any new kits from Dragon.

What is happening to Dragon? They're replacing Magic tracks with [auto-censored]ty DS ones, removing extras from kits and still charging the same price.

After all what difference does it make? If you want a canvas for the coolest-looking filtered, modulated, and chipped weathering scheme, any old hunk of plastic will do. Judging by magazines and websites, having an artistic finish is all that matters these days.

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What is happening to Dragon? They're replacing Magic tracks with [auto-censored]ty DS ones, removing extras from kits and still charging the same price.

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Perhaps they listened to their customers.

They started off with individual links with (nearly) every release. People complained that they were too much work.

The included PE with their kits. People complained that it made them too complicated.

After all what difference does it make? If you want a canvas for the coolest-looking filtered, modulated, and chipped weathering scheme, any old hunk of plastic will do. Judging by magazines and websites, having an artistic finish is all that matters these days.

KL

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What is happening to Dragon? They're replacing Magic tracks with [auto-censored]ty DS ones, removing extras from kits and still charging the same price.

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Perhaps they listened to their customers.

They started off with individual links with (nearly) every release. People complained that they were too much work.

The included PE with their kits. People complained that it made them too complicated.

After all what difference does it make? If you want a canvas for the coolest-looking filtered, modulated, and chipped weathering scheme, any old hunk of plastic will do. Judging by magazines and websites, having an artistic finish is all that matters these days.

KL

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Who thinks Magic tracks are complicated? You can build them in less than an hour. Are people too lazy to build models?

Wait...we are supposed to build them?!?!? I thought we were just supposed to buy them and then complain!

Who thinks Magic tracks are complicated? You can build them in less than an hour. Are people too lazy to build models?

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Who thinks Magic tracks are complicated? You can build them in less than an hour. Are people too lazy to build models?

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Go back 10 or 20 years and you'll find plenty of people who didn't like them (or PE for that matter).

You don't have to go back very far to find magazine articles where the author didn't build the model, he just painted it. I get the sense not that they are lazy, but that building an accurate, detailed, model is unappealing, irrelevant to their "art", and in some cases, beneath them.

KL

Magic tracks are a far different proposition to their earlier individual tracks. Some were excellent and some were torturous (T 48 with EEC where the holes weren't quite right so the tracked curved as the gap decreased on one side) to assemble.

Perhaps they listened to their customers.

They started off with individual links with (nearly) every release. People complained that they were too much work.

The included PE with their kits. People complained that it made them too complicated.

KL

Go back 10 or 20 years and you'll find plenty of people who didn't like them (or PE for that matter).

Did they have a drastic, and disastrous, change of management?