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Alliance Model Works have announced a batch of very highly detailed (and practical) update sets.

The New releases are:

LW35023 3.7cm Flak36/37 ammo and container set

LW35058 2cm Flakvierling 38 detailing set

LW35059 3.7cm Flak43 amm and container set

Now, in a different move from the usual listing, here, from the Company, is the rationale behind them and, importantly, the areas they seek to improve:

The flak36/37 ammo set is a revised item. Our initial design had some mistakes, mixing up details of the 6 round flak36 clip and the 8 round flak43 clips. The clips and containers for these 2 system are completely different, so we now have 2 separate listings for them. The flak43 clips are for 8 rounds, spring loaded, with guide rails, and clips are stored up side down in the boxes.

The 2cm flakvierling 38 detail set includes the following items:

4 sets of barrel and muzzle brake assemblies.
Antiskid grips are correctly engraved on the barrels, and the muzzle brake is the type with 3 rows of perforations
Shield assembly is made of 0.3mm brass to imitate the correct thickness
Shields, sighting shutter, shell ejection port tray and port cover can all be constructed to be movable
A correctly scaled 30-38 sight is included

The 20mm magazines featured in some of the pictures are from our 2cm magazine and container set, LW35022. Magazine wells are included in both that and LW35058.

This LW35058 set suits both Bronco and Dragon's kit. We have compared both of them to references and found the Bronco kit to be more accurate, although they both featured some imperfections. The set will also work on the Tamiya kit, but because height of the tamiya gun is significantly shorter (probably because they also used that gun on their wirbelwind kit, which doesn't have the correct cruciform and the gun base is too high), the shield would stand too tall.

Our thanks to Brian Nicoletti of Alliance Model Works (LINK) for the Update and additional information!