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| Subject: | Re: Dragon Jagdpanzer L/48 and L/70 Differences |  |
| Date: | Jul 3, 2005 |
| From: | Hugh Neilson | |
From memory, the superstructure roof is a bit different, the sliding cover over the sighting periscope aperture (for example) being rather different, then there are stowage differences for the spare wheels / spare track, and the main front plate is different - the L/70 kit has the later, thicker plate and of course only one "Madonna's bra" mg port cover. The exhausts are different also, the L/48 kit has the usual Pz IV muffler whereas the L/70 gives the late-production twin vertical exhausts. There's about one sprue of differences, if that makes sense!
For a time most of the Dragon kits in the Pz IV chassis family included the sprue with the L/70 gun barrel BUT it usually didn't incorporate the revised roof, so you couldn't pilfer the unused bits to convert an L/48 to the L/70. The L/70 kit was reissued fairly recently and can still be found on eBay. Revell's L/48 kit is the Dragin kit in a revell box with different (very nice) decals, but seems always to go for buttons on eBay - perhaps people don't realise it's actually the Dragon kit? As already stated, the new L/48 A-0 kit portrays pre-production / initial series vehicles with a very different rounded-front superstructure. Damn nice it is too.
Gunze issued a lovely "convertible" version of the kit which includes all the parts to build either version (or to do mix'n'match, since as always there were some vehicles with a mix of early / late features). I have all these kits in my stash - sad, I know - so I can scan you the instructions for the sprue diagrams etc if you like!
Cheers,
Hugh |
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