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Italeri: Big Scale Kübelwagen
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Posted: Wednesday, December 05, 2018 - 02:36 AM UTC


Italeri adds the Kübelwagen to its 1/9 scale offerings.

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Posted: Wednesday, December 05, 2018 - 03:59 AM UTC

This is an old kit ESCI but deserves finally to come out I hope they made improvements with photo cutting or other! It is hoped that eventually they will certainly release the series of motorcycles including the famous kettengraden and two figures: a marine or GI's (memory) and a panzergrenadier
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Posted: Wednesday, December 05, 2018 - 10:44 AM UTC
I had the old ESCI kit back in the day and this looks nothing like it. The engine is much better defined and so are the other details. It is nice to see Italeri finally come out with an improved version of this Kubelwagen kit.
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Posted: Wednesday, December 05, 2018 - 11:05 AM UTC
That engine will need some scratching to complete if you want to show it off, which you should at this scale. I can easily see the fuel line is missing as well as the wiring for the voltage regulator on top of the generator.
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Posted: Wednesday, December 05, 2018 - 11:06 AM UTC

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...including the famous kettengraden...


I believe you mean 'kettenkraftrad'.
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Posted: Wednesday, December 05, 2018 - 11:11 AM UTC

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This is an old kit ESCI but deserves finally to come out I hope they made improvements with photo cutting or other! It is hoped that eventually they will certainly release the series of motorcycles including the famous kettengraden and two figures: a marine or GI's (memory) and a panzergrenadier


Italeri did release a 1/9 Kettenkraftrad (7404) in 2017.
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Posted: Wednesday, December 05, 2018 - 12:33 PM UTC
Nice to see large scale soft skins. Hope this is a sign of more good things to come in larger scale. I'm talking more !/24 and !/16 scale. Give me a few more years and my eye's will be ready for 1/9 and 1/6 scale.

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Posted: Wednesday, December 05, 2018 - 03:15 PM UTC
It's been over 30 years since my Dad gave away my Esci Kubel while I was elsewhere.....but this looks very much like it to me. I'm only guessing, but I think these are the same old molds. Those "rubber like" seats look very familiar to me.
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Posted: Wednesday, December 05, 2018 - 03:36 PM UTC
Most people would simply call it a "Kettenkrad" and be done with it. A Kubel this big would make the GI Joe fans happy, that's for sure. I'd rather build Rye Field's new Puma. The resulting dio would be so much easier to handle.
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Posted: Wednesday, December 05, 2018 - 04:18 PM UTC
This is a re-release of the ESCI kit.

Parts are laid out exactly the same on the sprues.

Cheers,
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Posted: Wednesday, December 05, 2018 - 05:53 PM UTC
Continuing with the kettenkrad topic, Dragon
did a release of it with a Gebirgsjaeger driver and Revell of Germany did it a number of years back as well. Have one of those just haven't gotten around to building it yet.
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Posted: Wednesday, December 05, 2018 - 08:31 PM UTC

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I had the old ESCI kit back in the day and this looks nothing like it. The engine is much better defined and so are the other details. It is nice to see Italeri finally come out with an improved version of this Kubelwagen kit.

The color of the plastic apart, I can't see any differences between the Esci original of 1976 vintage and the Italeri "new" kit:
https://indy-amps.weebly.com/esci-19th-scale-vw-type-82-kubelwagen.html
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Posted: Thursday, December 06, 2018 - 09:34 AM UTC

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Most people would simply call it a "Kettenkrad" and be done with it. A Kubel this big would make the GI Joe fans happy, that's for sure. I'd rather build Rye Field's new Puma. The resulting dio would be so much easier to handle.


The original Joes are 1/6 scale, so this would be a touch small for them.
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