Bill Cross reviews Bronco Model''s Pz. III Ausf. A kit.

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Hi Bill
Very nice and informative. This one looks really cool with those rather large road wheels.
Jacob

Nice looking kit, thanks

Thanks to Darren for pushing me to do better than my original. I owe you guys a build of this, but since this is a major release story, I didn't want to hold up the in-box.

One can never have too many Pz.Kpfw IIIs!

Intriguing looking model. Those tracks - I want them but I don't want to assemble them!

JPTRR Perhaps you could subcontract the job out.....hahahha

THANKS to Bill C, and Darren!

I got this kit back in December, before Christmas, but I still have too much on my workbenches to start this one. Looking forward to building it. The Tracks look to be MODELKASTENs, but I wouldn't swear that they are. I'm also going to hold off on building it till the Pz.III-experts have built it, knowing that there is at least a 50-50 chance that some corrections may be necessary.

I will probably build my -Ausf.A in a Pre-war two-toned SCHWARZ-GRAU/ROTBRAUN Color Scheme, just because I think it will present itself quite nicely among my other early and Pre-war German vehicles...

The track assembly looks almost identical to a HobbyBoss T-26 I did recently. They were a bit fiddly, but once I found a method, they went together well. The trick for me was to leave the track pins on the sprue itself until they're installed in the track. Snip the pin off with a set of sharp sprue cutters and dab a tiny bit of liquid cement on it to make sure it stays put.

I have uploaded some build images to the review.

They wouldn't be Modelkasten. Bronco's are usually in house tooling, but copying the assembly method Modelkasten pioneered (Indi links assembled with a pin on each side) as a lot of manufacturers seem to have started doing with the tracks in their kits.