The kit is molded in orangey-yellow plastic, with the glueable Tamiya tracks, and a piece of nylon mesh for the cartridge case trap.  The gun itself looks very nice.  The instructions are in booklet form with 30 steps. Some of the steps are for small constructions, and it looks a very straightfoward build. I'm tackling a DML Stug IV right now, and the Tamiya PzIV chassis looks much more straightforward, notably because there are no injection pin marks on the rear of the hull!  The only markings provided are two crosses, and the painting guide is for a vehicle in France in 1944. There is one figure in the kit, and it looks fairly nice. It is a trooper in a panzer uniform looking skyward.  No details about zimmerit are included, but my guess is that a lot of rebuilt chassis would have been used for these babies, and zimmerit might or might not be applied depending on the date of construction.  References anyone?

I have finished the figure, with a subtle change to the angle of his head being my only modification.  Like all recent Tamiya figures the face is "overdetailed", with deep crevices around the mouth.  Nonetheless it is a nice complement to the kit.

The kit can be assembled with the four armoured walls oriented vertically, at an angle, or horizontally.  The detail on the new parts looks nice, and the kit includes two types of idler wheel, one tubular and one pressed style.  One major problem is that the sponsons are unboxed.  I don't know why Tamiya does this, but there it is.  The kit pretty much falls together (much to the delight of some, and the dismay of others).  It appears to be very nicely detailed kit, although there is virtually no detail within the fighting compartment.  I built the kit with the walls down, and the fighting compartment looks bare.  I plan to use the kit in a diorama where the Mobelwagen is setting up shop.  I will use a lot of items from my spares containers to add equipment to the gun area and around the vehicle.

Assembly was quite straightforward overall.  I replaced the supplied tracks with a set of DML Pz III/IV 40cm tracks that I obtained in a trade.  These fit perfectly on the Tamiya chassis.  I have built the kit as if it is a vehicle newly arrived at the front, so I made minimal dings and dents on the fenders, and I did not apply too much pencil lead wear.  In the end I opted to build the kit without zimmerit (lazy me).  I painted the kit in a mix of Tamiya and Polyscale acrylics for the base yellow coat.  I brushed on a camouflage pattern of brown and green wavy lines using some old Pactra paint for the green and a Humbrol brown.  I tried drybrushing for the first time, and this worked well.  I just used a little yellow ochre oil mixed with white and faded the paint a bit.  This toned down the stark camouflage pattern.  The kit is weathered with chalks.  Overall it builds up to be a nice kit, but it is clear that the fighting compartment should have more items included.