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| Subject: | Re: DML - Wittman Tiger kit |  |
| Date: | Nov 27, 2006 |
| From: | Gerald Owens | |
The Cyber Hobby Wittman Tiger appears to correspond pretty much with the Early Production Tiger as kitted by Tamiya and Academy. It's an early 1943 model with the Feifel air cleaners with the single upper chambers, shrouds for the exhaust system, standardized stowage box and mudguards (missing or extemporized in the DAK and Leningrad Three-in-One kits), drum-style cupola and reinforced armor on the mantlet around the sight apertures.
Indeed, this is the commonest of all early Tiger variants, and could be released with markings for almost every outfit that ever operated the Tiger I, which leads to the question, why is this a Cyber Hobby release only? It could be finished in markings for nine battalions and four armored divisions, which offers considerable market appeal. Meanwhile, their "standard" Dragon kit of an initial Tiger can depict one of just nine vehicles operated by one unit in Russia, the 502nd, and it certainly would seem a much better fit as a "boutique" collectors' kit. Gotta wonder what Freddie Leung was thinking. |
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 | DML - Wittman Tiger kit - Paul A. Owen - Nov 25, 2006 |
| . . . Re: DML - Wittman Tiger kit - Sanford Young - Nov 25, 2006 |
| . . . Re: DML - Wittman Tiger kit - Clair Greenwood - Nov 25, 2006 |
| . . . Re: DML - Wittman Tiger kit - Gerald Owens - Nov 27, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: DML - Wittman Tiger kit - Ian Flockhart - Nov 28, 2006 |
| . . . Re: DML - Wittman Tiger kit - David Byrden - Nov 28, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: DML - Wittman Tiger kit - Erik Forsgren - Nov 28, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: DML - Wittman Tiger kit - Curtis Jurrens - Nov 28, 2006 |
| . . . . . . DML's future Tiger I kit... - Kazutaka YOKOTA - Nov 28, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: DML's future Tiger I kit... - David Byrden - Nov 28, 2006 |
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