Darren Baker takes a look at the latest car offering from ICM in 1/35th scale, the Type 320 (W142) Saloon World War Two German Staff Car.

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NICE! My only beef with this car, other than the lack of a displayable Engine Compartment and/or Interior:

No Chrome parts where required...

Can't have everything, I suppose. Would also like to see ICM do this kit in 1/24...

I find that chromed parts are more trouble than they are worth for the most part, you normally find that as you need to clean the parts up you end up with black lines where you have cleaned the parts.

Hi, Darren! Well, I'm a big 1/24-1/25 Classic Car builder, in addition to all my other interests, and I find that I really don't have any problems with chrome parts. Must just be my personal experience with chrome, I guess. I also like to use BARE-METAL "Chrome" and "Brilliant Chrome" Foil.

What I DO find tedious is assembling some of the overly-complicated Tracks that could have been a lot less time consuming to build, had the designers not broken them down into parts that go together just like the real ones. I'm talking about Inside and Outside Pads with separate Link-pins. Separate Guide Teeth are just something that we have to live with for realism's sake, which I admit, are OK with me.

I like(ed) the DRAGON "Magic Tracks" and I really like TAMIYA's "Click-able" (Char B bis) and "Link-and-Lenth" Tracks (Hetzer, IS-II, and IS-152), just to name a few. Also the "Link-and-Length" Tracks supplied in BRONCO's M-22 "Locust" kits... DRAGON's "DS" Tracks are OK on US Vehicles that use "Live Tracks", but are a definite "No-No" in the case of German and Soviet WWII Armor, in my book...

I REEEALLY LIKE that Car! The 320 (W-142) is probably my favorite German WWII soft-skin! THANKS for reviewing it!

I'd also like to see various 1/35 & 1/24 WWII-era Audi, Auto Union, BMW, Horch and Maybach Limos and Staff Cars. Rommel got quite a bit of use out of his Horch Staff Car when he was in Europe...

Talking about Horch cars, Wespe Models has released a resin Horch 830 :



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