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| Subject: | Re: Jagdpanzer IV 88mm Kruppvorschlag |  |
| Date: | Apr 2, 2002 |
| From: | Alex Hodges | |
Is the gun totally fixed? I know it is a concept tank, but the picture
looks like the gun has no traverse. Is that so?
-Alex
"Christophe Jacquemont" wrote in message
news:3CA9BD14.C915C1A8@freesurf.fr...
> This is another one of those late WWII German "paper Panzers" that were
> never built, in 1/1 scale that is...
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> I've just finished building mine in 1/35. If you look up in this forum,
> you'll see other photos at an earlier stage of construction.
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> This is the FCM resin/white metal conversion for the Tamiya Panzer IV H
> (new tool) or Panzer IV J. I based mine on a Panzer IV H. FCM also
> includes an aluminium turned barrel.
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> The FCM conversion is very expensive and has a very irregular quality of
> mouldings, some are excellent but many are distorted :-(
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> If you have basic sratchbuilding skills (I have not) I'd recommend
> scratchbuilding over buying a conversion or kit of this vehicle as the
> CMK combi kit of the same vehicle is very poor also.
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> On the photos the ocre parts are Tamiya's except the driver's visor (so
> poor on the FCM part that I had to replace it) which is a modified part
> from an Italeri Jagdpanzer IV. The grey parts are mostly FCM resin but I
> had to use Dragon roadwheels (some steel, some regular) because the FCM
> wheels were badly shaped. I also used Dragon return rollers, Dragon
> individual track and the cover for the MG slot is from a Dragon
> Zwischenlosung kit.
>
> I now have to paint and weather it...
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> Any comments/questions are most welcome.
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> Cheers,
>
> Christophe
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