The other day, I posted a link to Terry Ashley's review of the (New) Tamiya Stug III (ausf.B) in 1/35th scale.

Now, Terry has added a comparison review between the (NEW) Stug and DML's older kit. The conclusion is surprising to put it mildly....

This excellent comparison article, can be seen: HERE!

I have the Dragon StuG III (one of the few early Dragon German armor kits I own). Glad to see I don't have to drop it in order to get the best kit around. It does amaze me that even after a decade plus, some newer kits pop up with minute errors that the older kits did not have. Although I will admit that those errors are ones I could live with and wouldn't even notice.

Thats a great article!

So the choice is between finer detail or minute accuracy differences... Looks like Dragon is losing on sinkmarks at this occassion. That's the reason I won't use Dragon indy links, to many sprue attachment points and sink/knockout marks to clean up.

Thanks for the link Jim.

Cheers
Henk

Thanks Jim for the great article link.

Very interesting article

Even with the small dimentional errors present in the Tamiya kit, and even Terry says he did the measurements with a ruler insted of calipers, the over all increase in detail crispness, and correctness IMHO more than compensate for a milimeter in dimemtional accuracy - one that your going to be hard pressed to tell when built up. True the vinyl tracks stink - but I havent used a set of kit tracks in years. Add an aber PE set and I really don't think the DML kit can stand up to the newer Tamiya one. While I currently don't have the Tamiya kit infront of me, Terry's picutres are certainly fine, one is on the way, and I shall update my posting if need be. Is the DML kit nice, yes. Will it build into a Stug - yep. Is it as nice as the Tamiya one - IMO I bet not.

Cheers

Great article thank you very much Terry,

As to some of the comments made since......

1: The Dragon kit is 12 yrs old....give them a month or two they will probably release a new one with all these issues fixed.....I recently read on this site that they did with the new Pzkfw IV.

2: the tracks.....indi track are always a pain to cleanup but you can't say they aren't better than a one peice vinyl track surely! even in the article it states that the dragons tracks have better detail.

3: I'm sure the dragon kit is alot cheaper than the tamiya kit and with the saving made there you could probably buy the corrective PE and tracks to make a better kit.

I'm amazed how people can read the same article and come up with such different outcomes. How can you dismiss the dragon kit so quickly when the article says to me that it stands up pretty well to something made 12 yrs later....The Tamiya kit by todays standard should have blown the old girl away.....did it?
It is nice to see Tamiya include a metal barrel, dragon have done that on alot of their new kits

Read on McDuff,
Take in some information and expand your mind.

P.S IM(not a)HO

(update) sorry I just worked out what that means....."In My Honest Opinion" right...... my P.S. was ment to be a joke about not being a ho and after I worked out what it ment ....my P.S. became "In My not a Honest Opinion" which could be taken wrong....sorry.