Dave J Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 Looking picking up a Kubelwagen at some stage.. Just wondering what to pick up the Dragon tooling or the Tamiya one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Fran Posted February 17, 2014 Administrators Share Posted February 17, 2014 If you want to do this (http://www.leadwarrior.com/Lw35205.htm) just go for the Tamiya! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One-Oh-Four Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 Dave, as I understand it, the Tamiya Kübel is a heavily re-tooled version from 1997 of their original kit from the '70's. The Dragon kit has it's roots as a Bego kit from 1994 and is over time released by Hasegawa, Dragon and Cyberhobby, which is of course the other trademark from DML... I don't know which is most accurate but my general experience is that Tamiya builds the easiest but that's because they take some shortcuts with the really fine details to that end. Dragon is usually more difficult to build because the kits tend to have more and finer details included. One example in this case is that the Dragon Kübel contains an engine and the Tamiya one doesn't. Some links to help you in your choice: http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=2344 http://www.scalemates.com/products/product.php?id=134066 http://armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=SquawkBox&file=index&req=viewtopic&topic_id=118608 http://www.militarymodelling.com/news/article/tamiya-1-35-kubelwagen-re-released-with-/4719 http://www.militarymodelling.com/news/article/tamiya-1-35-kubelwagen-type-82/6057 This would be a nice one for the Eastern Front GB, BTW: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave J Posted February 17, 2014 Author Share Posted February 17, 2014 Cheers Erik! Looks like the later Tamiya version is the way to go! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoonattack Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 I've not seen the newer Tamiya versions, but the old one isn't bad as I recall. You using it for an aircraft diorama? Ju 88 perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave J Posted February 20, 2014 Author Share Posted February 20, 2014 I just saw Monuments Men the other day and they were driving around in a Capture Kubelwagen painted up with Stars... Thought it would be a cool little dio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoonattack Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 I agree. Haven't seen the movie yet, Dave, but I'd imagine it's pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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