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[Guest]

I love charity shops, £7 for the pair and still in the cellophane.
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For the last 10 years of my brother's RAF service he was teaching air to air refuelling with the VC 10

 

[Dave Jay]

Hi folks, got these today, dipping my toes back in to military modelling. ........tentively and hopefully successfully!


Got them from my local model shop in Paignton (sorry for not buying from John at SMS).


Panzer IV was £14 and the figures were £6.


I've never built a German tank so this is a learning curve.


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[Guest]

Hi folks, got these today, dipping my toes back in to military modelling. ........tentively and hopefully successfully!
Got them from my local model shop in Paignton (sorry for not buying from John at SMS).


Panzer IV was £14 and the figures were £6.


I've never built a German tank so this is a learning curve.


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I've always found Academy kits to be good.


And you should enjoy this.

 

[Guest]

Hi folks, got these today, dipping my toes back in to military modelling. ........tentively and hopefully successfully!
Got them from my local model shop in Paignton (sorry for not buying from John at SMS).


Panzer IV was £14 and the figures were £6.


I've never built a German tank so this is a learning curve.


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A word of caution! Early Academy kits are usually reboxes of even earlier Tamiya kits. Nothing necessarily wrong with that I know, but that Panzer IV leaves a lot to be desired.


It's not an Ausf H or J, more like an For/2. Detail is lacking & obviously there's no zimmerit as you'd find on an H or J.


So enjoy it Dave, but if you ever build a Dragon P4, you'll see the difference!

 

[yambam26]

Bought these 3 since Thursday.

Very nice selection there the Verminlord is one on the list for me but ive got the glotkin in the stash to build first


Cheers,Ben

 

[Dave Jay]

I've always found Academy kits to be good.
And you should enjoy this.

I've just been reading the reviews on scalemates, it's an oldie but goodie apparently, some say it's an old Hasegawa or Tamiya mould. Hope it builds well, I'll have a good go at it anyway!

 

[Dave Jay]

A word of caution! Early Academy kits are usually reboxes of even earlier Tamiya kits. Nothing necessarily wrong with that I know, but that Panzer IV leaves a lot to be desired.
It's not an Ausf H or J, more like an For/2. Detail is lacking & obviously there's no zimmerit as you'd find on an H or J.


So enjoy it Dave, but if you ever build a Dragon P4, you'll see the difference!

You must have been writing your post as I was writing mine! ..............I just got them on a whim, we were in town mooching and popped in to my local shop, saw these and thought what the heck. Something to re cut my teeth on I guess.


I'm looking forward to getting to build a Dragon tank, but only when I've attained somewhere near your experience and knowledge of the subject

 

[Guest]

You must have been writing your post as I was writing mine! ..............I just got them on a whim, we were in town mooching and popped in to my local shop, saw these and thought what the heck. Something to re cut my teeth on I guess.
I'm looking forward to getting to build a Dragon tank, but only when I've attained somewhere near your experience and knowledge of the subject

Great minds! if I was you, I'd build that one as an Afrika Corps vehicle. Most of the long-barrelled 75s were F1/2s & that way there's no zimmerit to think about.

 

[Dave Jay]

If I build it as Afrika corps can I still use the figures I got to go with it, I was going to do a small dio but based in the ETO

 

[Guest]

If I build it as Afrika corps can I still use the figures I got to go with it, I was going to do a small dio but based in the ETO

You could do as that would be in late 1942 to early '43, so the fact that they're no in shorts wouldn't be a problem.


Whilst the Wehrmacht had pretty much dispensed with using anti tank rifles by then, who's to say that the Afrika Corps weren't prepared to use any weapons they could find, considering their lack of supplies?

 

[monica]

Hi folks, got these today, dipping my toes back in to military modelling. ........tentively and hopefully successfully!
Got them from my local model shop in Paignton (sorry for not buying from John at SMS).


Panzer IV was £14 and the figures were £6.


I've never built a German tank so this is a learning curve.


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do real like the look of that panzer,should be a good build,from what I have found , Academy kits,


have been real good fit with no real problems,


do enjoy,

 

[Dave Jay]

do real like the look of that panzer,should be a good build,from what I have found , Academy kits,
have been real good fit with no real problems,


do enjoy,

Thanks Moni, I reckon it should be OK. The detail isn't as high as some of the more up to date mouldings on offer but the price was good and the detail for me is more than adequate, also not being negative but if I cock it up then I haven't lost too much money!

 

[monica]

you will be fine,


and will look forward to seeing a start to her,wish you luck ,but you wont need it,

 

[Dave Jay]

you will be fine,
and will look forward to seeing a start to her,wish you luck ,but you wont need it,

Thanks Moni for those words of encouragement

 

[Guest]

Youll be fine with the figures in Afrika style, have a look at some photos dave, some troops over there did have long-wear rather than tropic wear.


Plus, that tank will look great in dessie, nice sand base, sandbag bunker, youll do it proud bud!

 

[Dave Jay]

Youll be fine with the figures in Afrika style, have a look at some photos dave, some troops over there did have long-wear rather than tropic wear.
Plus, that tank will look great in dessie, nice sand base, sandbag bunker, youll do it proud bud!

Thanks Dave, I'll go with what you said.


My initial thought on a dio was to have a slightly elevated road section with ditches either side, hedgerow down one side, tree etc and with a machine gun crew either side of the P4 and the Herman that's running would be behind the tank going from one crew to the other (like a powder monkey! )..........then in the distance there was going to be some dirty waffen have a bit of relief near a post!


However the idea of a desert scene is growing on me........thinking maybe of having the panzer dug in so that the barrel is just above ground level and the machine gunners dug in to foxholes. ........not sure yet!

 

[Guest]

It is christmas after all!


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[Guest]

It is christmas after all!
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Blimey that's a beast!

 

[Guest]

Blimey that's a beast!

Yep, its going to be huge! I had the choice of this or the dragon kit, i chose this as it gives options, and had PE, the dragon kit has only one base.

 

[Guest]

Yep, its going to be huge! I had the choice of this or the dragon kit, i chose this as it gives options, and had PE, the dragon kit has only one base.

I hope that's a newer tool version! About 3 months ago I was offered one for £30... but then I did some research & found this build thread which put me off! So if it's the same kit in a different box, have some filler at the ready Dave!


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