Trumpeter's Pz. IVb 10.5cm

[Tony lee]

Why not :dance
Tony lee

 

[Iron Mike]

Sure. B)

 

[lupanzer]

...another to make success

Luiz.

 

[Tony lee]

Well I started cleaning parts before the NASCAR race started and I noticed the hull looked smaller,then the road wheels and idler looked smaller and then I compared the turrets and the Trumpeter is a lot smaller.

This is supposed to be 1/35th??????
I'll post some pictures after the race.

Later
Tony lee :idonno

 

[Tony lee]

OK you decide what scale???? Both say 1/35th

DML on the left Trumpeter on the right


Turrets


Hulls
DML in the rear


With turrets


People are bad mouthing Dragon for screwing the pooch with the M103, "Poop Happens" :laugh:

Tony lee

 

[Iron Mike]

Maybe it's that new math? :hmmm

 

[nerdling]

Huh interesting. Wonder how they managed that :gogo

 

[Tony lee]

I don't know if i'll waste my time building this mess.
I wanted it to go with the other one but that's not going to work.

Tony lee

 

[moon puppy]

So who's right? :idonno

 

[MrT]

Well maybe both. Here are some pictures that show a smaller idler wheel and some with smaller road wheels.

Terry :v

 

[Tony lee]

I feel Trumpeter missed the mark big time myself.

Tony lee

 

[Tony lee]

Update





Don't look too bad sitting there by itself. :hmmm
Tony lee

 

[lupanzer]

... clean assembly

Luiz.

 

[moon puppy]

Don't look bad at all. I"m still confused, are these two different variants of a tank?

 

[Tony lee]

No they're not Pup they are both suppose to be the very same. :idonno

Tony lee

 

[Sharkmouth]

Well maybe both. Here are some pictures that show a smaller idler wheel and some with smaller road wheels.

These are two different vehicles.

Wonder how they managed that

The wheels on this vehicle looked like those from the Begleitwagen (Pz.Kpfw. IV) but are in fact larger and only six per side. DML caught this and Trumpeter did not. Instead they used regular Begleitwagen wheels and scaled everything down to fit.

Regards,

 

[Bagge]

Not first time trumpeter get the size wrong, the S-tank is out of scale to.
To bad, because it looks like a nice kit though, hope you finnish it Tony.
//Mats

 

[Iron Mike]

Call him...Mini Me. :laugh:

 

[moon puppy]

Just dawned on me, these two are the same tank, same picture. one picture is flipped. The bottom picture I thought the rear of the turret was shorter for some reason.

OK Trash the Trumpeter, use it for a burn out thing.

 

[Tony lee]

OOB all done










This kit had PE fender braces, i'm saving those for the Dragon kit as well as the copper tow cables.
Also the DML kit was missing a driver view port armor shield and I used it for the one missing.
This kit is such a misfit of scale i'm not going to waste the paint on it.

Tony lee