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Posted: Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 01:11 PM UTC


Dragon will be releasing the Panzer II Ausf. B in 1/6 scale as a model kit

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Posted: Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 05:04 PM UTC
1/16 would be way better...
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Posted: Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 05:09 PM UTC
Agree. Also how about a 1/16 Panzer III, Stug or Hetzer Dragon?
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Posted: Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 05:21 PM UTC
But there are no 1/16 scale action figures. It's all about the action figures!
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Posted: Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 05:30 PM UTC

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But there are no 1/16 scale action figures. It's all about the action figures!


There was a time when this would have been just so incredible - in the days when even this was just a dream:

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Posted: Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 05:47 PM UTC
A bit over 80 cm or 31,6 inches long ..... I think I'll stick with my 1/35 braille scale stuff. When old age makes my eyesight so weak that I 'll need to build in 1/6:th scale I will probably have stopped modelling ... / Robin
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Posted: Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 07:33 PM UTC
This is not a new kit. It was originally released in 2011 for about $250, same item number.

http://www.dragon-models.com/d-m-item.asp?pid=DRA75025

I have all the other 1/6 Dragon kits except this one so I'll probably spring for it unless it is much more expensive now. Last one I saw was $350 and I passed on it.
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Posted: Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 10:29 PM UTC

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This is not a new kit. It was originally released in 2011 for about $250, same item number.

http://www.dragon-models.com/d-m-item.asp?pid=DRA75025

I have all the other 1/6 Dragon kits except this one so I'll probably spring for it unless it is much more expensive now. Last one I saw was $350 and I passed on it.


It may be a new "kit" as the previous one came in built up form. The LHS owner I used to work for ordered two of them, and at the time the MSRP was near $600 for the built up version. We ended up selling both of ours for about $200, losing lots of money in the process. Frankly, the built up version was lacking detail and seemed more like a toy, with many toylike features, so if this "kit" is just the old version in kit form, it won't satisfy many AMS model builders.
VR, Russ
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Posted: Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 11:37 PM UTC
Hi

My money's on it being the same old "kit" as before, lacking in detail and made primarily for the "dollie" collectors.

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Posted: Friday, September 15, 2017 - 12:02 AM UTC

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This is not a new kit. It was originally released in 2011 for about $250, same item number.

http://www.dragon-models.com/d-m-item.asp?pid=DRA75025

I have all the other 1/6 Dragon kits except this one so I'll probably spring for it unless it is much more expensive now. Last one I saw was $350 and I passed on it.


It may be a new "kit" as the previous one came in built up form. The LHS owner I used to work for ordered two of them, and at the time the MSRP was near $600 for the built up version. We ended up selling both of ours for about $200, losing lots of money in the process. Frankly, the built up version was lacking detail and seemed more like a toy, with many toylike features, so if this "kit" is just the old version in kit form, it won't satisfy many AMS model builders.
VR, Russ


This was available as a kit in the gray and in DAK camo a few years back, as I was a member of a "dollie" collector site and a couple of the larger scale guys had purchased a couple and posted their build logs.

Granted, not a lot of parts but they were kits nonetheless. I was thinking of getting one back then for my daughter's Barbies (I had given her a 12" G.I.Joe to play the uncle who was a vet) but the price was a bit much for a girl's play toy. She had to settle for a Schwimmwagen instead.
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Posted: Friday, September 15, 2017 - 12:02 AM UTC
Interesting Russ that the original 2011 ad, description, and photos indicate it comes as a kit (re: the link) but you actually got them and they were built up. Glad I didn't go for it then as I would have been pretty disappointed at that. The other Panzer II and Sherman I have are kits and fairly decent at a couple hundred dollars each.

I agree that the level of detail is not as good as you would expect at that scale but adding some scratch built parts is not too difficult and with a little work they can be made into a pretty nice model. Not like an 800 piece 1/35 kit but fun and impressive in its own way. However you will need a good bit of space and a LOT of paint.
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Posted: Friday, September 15, 2017 - 12:05 AM UTC
Turns out the DAK version was an Ausf C, not B.

Yes, barely a kit; mostly something neat to display the figures on.
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Posted: Friday, September 15, 2017 - 12:26 AM UTC

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Agree. Also how about a 1/16 Panzer III, Stug or Hetzer Dragon?

You can add a sdkfz 250/251, a not overpriced schwimmwagen and zundapp, even a real tiger I..
there is to much to do in 1/16..
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Posted: Friday, September 15, 2017 - 04:15 AM UTC
Something really BIG to display the figures on.
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Posted: Friday, September 15, 2017 - 05:51 AM UTC
Here is my unboxing of the Panzer II C with some photos from 2013 for what its worth.

http://armorama.com/forums/208937&page=1

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Posted: Friday, September 15, 2017 - 08:56 AM UTC

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Here is my unboxing of the Panzer II C with some photos from 2013 for what its worth.

http://armorama.com/forums/208937&page=1



Hooray for Photobucket!!!
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Posted: Friday, September 15, 2017 - 09:04 AM UTC


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Posted: Friday, September 15, 2017 - 11:59 AM UTC
Here version B:
https://www.super-hobby.com/products/Pz.Kpfw-II-Ausf.-B.html
and here's C:
https://www.super-hobby.com/products/Pz.Kpfw.II-Ausf.-C.html
As for details, they are reasonably easy to add. When you look at 1:1 tank, it also looks like it lacks details
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Posted: Saturday, September 16, 2017 - 01:15 AM UTC
1/6 scale modellers loved and bought many units of the Dragon range for that scale. I don't understand why the latter cut the series off.
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