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Saturday, September 20, 2008 - 04:10 AM UTC
Dragon Models have just announced their latest variant on the 250.
DRA 6425 - Sd.Kfz.250/8 NEU 7.5cm K.51 L/24 Gun (Premium Edition)

This new release (November 2008) will carry the following company-announced features:

- Highly detailed 7.5cm K.51 L/24 gun
- Side armor designed to scale thickness
- Gun sleeve reproduced with fine detail
- Rifling inside gun barrel finely reproduced
- Correct basket for spent ammo rounds
- 7.92mm MG42 made to Gen2 standard included
MG34 included as option
- Slide molded gun-sight periscope made from clear part
- One-piece slide-molded lower hull
- Suspension system for Sd.Kfz.250
- Highly detailed sprocket mounts are separate parts
- Multi-part assembly for sprocket allows higher levels of detail
- Road wheels have precise detail
- Magic Tracks for ease of assembly
- Two types of front wheels included as options
- Front wheels with multi-part assembly provides greater detail
- Storage-box doors can be assembled open/closed
- Weld seams authentically reproduced.
- New Cartograf decal included

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Comments

Jim, Do you know if this one's going to be an all-new tool "Smart Kit" or a "Premium" kit upgrade like they did with the 250/1? The 250/1 "Premium" kit had some problems like a missing transmission, visors that were the wrong size, interior detail issues, etc. so if this one is a new-tool I'm hoping they corrected those this time around as well as giving it the "smart" treatment.
SEP 20, 2008 - 06:30 AM
It's a Premium Kit of the earlier kit no 6102. Wether that bodes well or not only a box-review or build-up will reveal.
SEP 20, 2008 - 06:32 AM
Yep, Premium - don't know where I got the 'Smart-Kit' thing from at all.... Ahhhh... DragonUSA have just modified their website, i'll swear, that when I picked this up, it WAS listed as Smart Kit....
SEP 20, 2008 - 06:39 AM
That dampens my enthusiasm a little bit, but like Herb I guess we'll have to wait and see what the actual kit looks like and whether or not they just threw in extra sprues from various other kits for the 7.5cm gun and superstructure along with the 250/1 Premium sprues to get to this one.
SEP 20, 2008 - 06:48 AM
The more the merrier! The 250 is one of my favorite Wehrmacht platforms. Hopefully the upper and lower hull will fit together a little bit better.
SEP 22, 2008 - 01:18 PM
Does anyone know, what ever happened to all those German halftracks after WW2? Did they continue, in Soviet service? Did the Soviets pass them on to the Syrians or the East Germans?
SEP 22, 2008 - 02:33 PM
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