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| Subject: | Re: Gunze Sanyo PzKfw F1-F2 |  |
| Date: | Mar 17, 2006 |
| From: | Gerald Owens | |
If it is the old Hi-Tech kit, the white metal parts are rubbish, and the all-plastic version is far superior. And the stainless steel photoetch was no better than the brass parts available from all the current aftermarket vendors. And to clarify, the Dragon kit is a rebox of Gunze Sangyo, not the other way round. Dragon took the Gunze High Tech kits from 1989-90 and tooled new plastic parts to replace the poor white metal and photoetch bits (included were the Panther G kits, Jagdpanthers, Panzer III M/N and Panzer IV F and G kits--Dragon also improved their own Panzer IV J, Brummbar and StuG IV kits by marrying their upper hulls to Gunze suspensions and mudguards when they were re-released). The original Gunze versions would have value as collectors' kits, but are more trouble to assemble than they are worth.
In more recent years, Gunze has been re-releasing the all-plastic versions in Japan while the same kits have been available worldwide in Dragon boxes. |
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