Shell,

The base kubelwagen kit is excellent and the radio equipment (supplied as pastic) is quite nice. The PE radio compartment is a pretty good representation of the real thing. That said, I could not get it to fit correctly. I am considering trying to rebuild it using plastic card.

Nathan

I built the ambulance version not long ago and liked the vehicle better than the Tamiya version, but as you probably know sometimes Dragon doesn't "measure twice-cut once" many times when they do a variant on one of their kits and the new parts don't always align quite right.

I recently bought Tamiya's Kubelwagen repair set and plain to use another Dragon Kubel to simulate an oil change/valve adjustment scene based on my years as a VW bus owner lying underneath the beast and getting oil-splattered. But I plan to build the radio version before that happens.

The WWP Wireless for Wehrmacht book is very helpful resource, with a couple good pictures of a radio equipped Kubelwagen. Especially nice since some of the part placements in the instructions are wrong. It also has you build a transmitter that would not have been used with the Kubelwagen (but a useful spare).

Ribbons sent !!

Congrats everyone !!