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| Subject: | Re: Dragon Jagdpanzer IV photo-etched kits |  |
| Date: | Feb 21, 2005 |
| From: | Rob Bowman | |
I don't know how to respond effectively.
It was pre 2000 When I first purchased the L/70 version of this kit, I tried to find an answer. The old PE kit from AIRWAVES was the first I could come upon, so I bought it. It isn't as comprehensive as we're used to with the newer standards. So I bought Eduard's set for the Stug IV, thinking that should be close enough to model, right? No. Then I ordered my first Rubio Barrel from R&J Enterprises. It wasn't right, except for barrel length. Jordi had liquid lunch that day, or his subordinates had figured out how to GO OUT OF ROUND. I tried, with my decent machinist skills to improve that rendering. I still couldn't improve that barrel, even on a lathe.
I must say that incidence was a FLUKE, as most of us could only complain as to how all of Rubio's barrels look before inserting them into the mantlet. I still haven't built my PzJgdIV.
Eduard decided to respond with several sets covering the L/70 V Version of the 'Zwischen Losung'. That Kit is as rare as an M4A1, or Pzkpfw III Ausf G DAK. The lack of PE for the Lorraine Schlepper is also of study to me. It must be a case of 'Low on the Totem Poles'. |
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