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Modeller Build Logs
Building the Tristar Panzer IV D Tauchpanzer |
| By Glenn Bartolotti | | Started: | Dec 8, 2006 | | Updated: | Feb 10, 2007 |
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I will be building in this Blog the very nice Tristar Panzer IV Ausf. D "Tauch". I will be using Saul Garcia's review found here: http://www.track-link.net/reviews/k1757 I will use this review as my guide and I will be referring to it as I build if needed. The instructions are much easier to follow and read than the DML Panzer IV Ausf. E kit which are very confusing.
My plan is to build the kit as a Ausf. D, not the Tauchanzer version. I will build the kit in the 15 steps the instructions show. I will show a scan of the assembly step from the instructions and a photograph of the assembled parts for that step. |
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| Step 5 - Upper Hull - Part 1 | Dec 20, 2006 |
| Step 5 begins with the upper hull. Here, we see the first mention of the four different ways of completing this model. Two complete upper hulls are provided. The second hull, on Sprue I, has a different tread pattern on it than the original hull, A1, with its dot pattern. While optimized for the Tauchpanzer, the new hull, I1, can be used for a straight Ausf. D as long as one remembers to use the corresponding rear mudguards added in Step 8. An interesting feature is part C50 which is to be added if building the tank without a turret. Does this foretell that a bridge layer is in the works? Possibly, an interior set may be offered soon as was done with the Panzer I Ausf A kits. The front mud flaps even have separate springs to attach. The side visors can now be positioned open to the empty hull thanks to newly added parts A-14 and the clear episcopes (GP2-2). |
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