Looking into the latest product update list of Hobby Boss reveals a tank destroyer and another variant of a unique armored car, both in 1/35 scale.

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Dragon has some pretty impressive kits of the Marder III H/M and variants, so to me the bar is pretty high. Hobby Boss can do some interesting stuff, but they'll have to deliver something special here to get my money. I hope they do, understanding, of course, that not everyone wants every last detail they can squeeze into a kit.

A Tristar kit under the Hobby Boss label,??

Yes, the obvious answer is this is the ex-Tristar Marder III ausf M kit. No reason to think otherwise.

Johhar: The first reasonable Marder III M (I'm excluding the Alan models abomination) was Tamiya, then Tristar (the subject of this post) and then DML.

Both Tristar (Hobbyboss) and DML also made the Marder III H. A comparison review can be had here: http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/reviews/vehicles/misc/marder3h/marder3h.htm

Tristar never did a Marder III M, just the H. Dont know if one was in the works, since it would be easy to convert their Flakpanzer to a Marder, but no official boxing was ever on the shelves. However that being said, Tristar was always the superior product to DML, if a little less user friendly, so I'm looking forward to this one.

That's what I thought as well. Haven't seen an Ausf M from Tristar.

Tristar had announced one....back in 2008

http://www.track-link.com/forums/news_industry/14253

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Can someone fill me in on what the physical difference is between the previous ADGZ-Daimler boxing and this new ADGZ-Steyr boxing? thanks

This never came out, right? Because kit 041 was the British Para + Welbike

ugh. My mistake,folks. My memory failed me. I have the Tristar Marder III Ausf H. Boy! That was long ago!

It seems like they finally got the Tristar kit to market, even if they had to throw in a bit of their own work to finish it off. If you go on Scalehobbyist (or presumably any site that sells Hobbyboss), all the Hobbyboss Tristar reboxes have kit #80xxx while it seems the actual Hobbyboss kits start with 82xxx, 83xxx, ... so it looks like I'll be looking for it.

Given that Tristar's H had a full interior, as did their Flakpanzer 38(t) M kit.... Maybe this one will come along with those similar guts!

But yes, the bar is mighty high for the Marder III M... The Dragon / cyberhobby kits are mighty good in lots of ways.

Seems to me the only difference is the Headlamps- I built the AMG version of the Steyr and it also had the hexagonal fixture as opposed to Daimler's spherical ones...