Salty 
but accurate (as I see it) review of the 1993 1/35 Italeri’s Panther kit. Here’s the basis and documentation of this review.
This is of course is just my subjective opinion, others may, will and do have other opinions, I fully respect that.
TL, DR Readers Digest version of the review, the kit is garbage, don’t waste time with it. It’s old, totally pathetic but more expensive than far superior kits here in the USA. In other markets, it’s likely far less expensive.
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1/35 Italeri Panther A
0 Price ~$53 (Spruebrothers.com) I paid $1 as this was a raffle ticket win.
4 Instructions - they are clear & concise best part of the kit
0 Molding Quality - flash, sinkmarks, multiple worthless deformed parts, mold shifted parts, soft details. Zero quality control, not a sliver of pride to be found given how poorly this copy of the kit was manufactured. If the manufacturing quality had been to the same standard as my 1970’s era Italeri Pz IV G kit then this review would have been significantly more favorable.
3 Plastic Quality - decent enough
3 Parts Clean Up - the useable parts approximately 13% of my build, cleaned up well enough without excessive hassle
1 Ease of Build - out box 3, poor upper lower hull fit, stock turret sits too high and fixing requires tweaking. Fixing multitude of issues complicates the build.
1 Accuracy - Has multitude dimensional errors in hull & turret, turret sits wrong stock, many details are wrong, rear engine deck has errors. For many folks, none of that will matter. Yes, being scaled for the suck-taclular kit zimmerit has impact on creating many of the errors but not all of them. The length of the hull top to the front edge of the engine deck is off per line drawings etc.
0 Fit - upper & lower hull and rear plate didn’t align properly without significant effort to fix with both examples I’ve built. Turret doesn’t fit correctly stock. Can’t think of a worse alignment of key hull parts out of the 220 + AFV kits I’ve built.
0 Doesn’t Require Aftermarket - every part needs help by today’s standards. They needed help 30 years ago as well. Over 80% of this Italeri build is replacement parts or reworked parts.
0 Details built Out of the Box - pathetic unless one likes sinkmarks, short shots and mold shift.
12 points out of 50 possible
12/50 => 24%
Not Recommended, far too many kits with better everything out of the box.
Italeri’s pile of bat guano from over 30 years ago typically retails for more than a new tool Meng Panther A.
Uses? A few…
Being given as a Christmas present to someone you don’t like, donated as raffle prize filler or built as a demonstration of your sado masochism tendencies.
BTW - it’s one of my top 5 favorite models out of my ~220+ AFV’s built, now that it’s finished and on the display shelf…so there is that in it’s favor. 
YMMV
Next review will be more positive (I promise) featuring an even older kit with it’s roots in the 1980’s.