Cyber-hobby have announced the release of what is virtually a diorama-in-a-box. The kit comprises a Sdkfz 251/1 Ausf C half track with German infantry figures from Masterbox.

This is another release in the orange box series, and it is interesting to see the collaboration between DML/Cyber-hobby and Masterbox. Makes you wonder what other collaborations we might see in the future.

I don't know who started the diorama-in-a-box idea, but of recent years I suspect it was Tamiya, and I have made several such myself. The Sdkfz 251/1 Ausf C needs no introduction as it has been extensively reviewed, warts and all, in the past.

The Masterbox set of four figures is dated 1941-42, and comprises a group of figures on the advance, except for one whose advancing days are over, and if the sculpting is up to the standard of the illustration, will make a nice combination with the 251.

Who knows, perhaps DML/Cyber-hobby are producing kits such as this to use up their stocks of older and less accurate kits so that they can update the kits by removing the innacuracies ? We can but hope . . . . .