Saturday, May 02, 2009 - 12:15 AM UTC
Dragon Models continue with their Pz IV 'Program' with this, one of the last in the line.
DRA 6300 - Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf.H, Late Production (Smart Kit)

Features:

- Side-skirt armor plates can be installed separately
- Newly designed side-skirt armor produced in metal for scale thickness
- Newly tooled one-piece 3-directional slide-molded turret for Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf.H
- New turret roof rendered w/turret-skirt armor brackets
- Turret-skirt and side-skirt armor plates can be installed separetly
- Mantlet guard can be removed and gun unloaded as on real vehicle
- Rifling inside gun barrel is finely reproduced
- Detailed gun muzzle brake
- Finely detailed 7.5cm Kw.K.40 L/48 gun
- Gun sleeve w/delicated weld and bolt detail made from 3-directional slide molds
- Mantlet view port can be modeled open/closed
- Turret-skirt door can be positioned open/closed
- MG34 in Gen2 standard with gun mount
- Brackets for side-skirt armor realistically detailed
- Newly tooled spare-wheel rack w/spare wheels on upper full side
- Two types of side-skirt armor plate w/bolt detail
- Injection-molded fenders made to thinnest possible dimensions
- Includes hollowed-out undercut on turret bottom
- Incorporates toothed turret ring inside turret
- New spare-track bracket on glacis plate wiht photo-etched and plastic option
- Commander's cupola recreates structural details
- Cupola vision blocks can be assembled open/closed
- New driver's and radio operator's housing w/splash guard
- Hatches w/internal detail
- Newly tooled spare-track bracket on lower hull front
- Spare rod antenna storage on late Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf.H
- 500mm T-34 waffle pattern tracks as extra armor protection
- New OVM arrangement onn fenders
- Newly tooled one-piece upper hull 2side slide-molded w/new engine-deck design
- Newly tooled side fenders w/pattern detail on both top and bottom surfaces
- Great detail on newly tooled hull rear
- New spare tracks on rear armor plate
- Photo-etched part for engine-deck exhaust grill
- Engine hatches can be assembled open/closed
- Injection molded OVM w/clasps
- Air-intake covers have option of injection or photo-etched parts
- Realistic double-layered air intake
- 40cm Magic Tracks in both side detail
- Complete MG w/workable ball mount
- Final-drive housing w/details on both sides
- Separate armored cover for final-drive housing
- Sprocket wheels w/breathtaking detail and multiple delicate parts
- Extendable jack w/ separate parts
- Accurately detailed idler adjuster mountings
- Detailed towing-eye brackets w/separate parts
- Road wheels and suspension w/multiple components exhibit crisp detail
- Idler wheels have detailed parts
- Fuel filler flap has open/closed option
- Rear antenna included
- One-piece lower hull made from slide molds
- Hull bottom fully detailed

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Comments

Preo-Order price is $44.99. Dragon USA Online As always, if you want a kit it might be best to wait a while until the price drops after the hype is gone.
MAY 02, 2009 - 10:36 AM
Like for their newish early Jagdpanther, I'm waiting for the "Zimmerited" version of this one before I take the credit card out. Cheers, Christophe
MAY 03, 2009 - 06:26 AM
Wow, a very nice panzer indeed.
MAY 03, 2009 - 06:47 AM
I've been debating this one and I think I will end up getting it. Very nice details and I'm liking the looks of the IV. Plus, the only way to get a gun breech and a hull MG with the working ball mount is to go with the German armor.
MAY 03, 2009 - 09:59 AM
Looks like another winner from Dragon. This one must go into the stash. Has anybody seen what the marking options will be for this kit?
MAY 04, 2009 - 02:18 AM
I don't think that that information was revealed yet. You'll have to wait a few more weeks.
MAY 04, 2009 - 02:50 AM
What about Zim on the H? Is it needed for this model?
MAY 11, 2009 - 06:24 PM
This is gonna need a coat of Zimm on it Though I have to say that PZ IV's have a alot less surface area to cover than a Panther or King Tiger
MAY 11, 2009 - 07:31 PM
Another advantage of THIS model is that this is the one you can build as a vehicle in Spanish Army service. No Schürzen (apart from the attachment points), no Zimm and a coat of OD which is a far more gentlemany color than others I can think of. It's also the perfect vehicle to build a Syrian PzIV in the 1970s...
MAY 11, 2009 - 07:52 PM
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