In response to Takom's announcement, Dragon showed off their 1/35 scale version of Wittmann's early Tiger.
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/war-of-the-tigers
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/war-of-the-tigers
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I thought Dragon has one of these made already from about 15 years past?
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Those Dragon kits aren’t putting money in Takom’s pockets. So Takom wants a bigger slice of Tiger sales.
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Whoa! As I write this, 29 passes in 6 hours! Why all the Dragon hate? You guys have this all wrong.
We need to support and encourage this. How dare they attack your market share!?! Bring on the Tiger swarm! Every model company should take this opportunity to declare war, fight with other model companies, and release a bunch of Tiger Is. Let this event be known as the Great Tiger I War of 2025!
Then we can all scoop up lots of cheap Tiger Is. Matt and Wade will need to rent storage space on the sly, but they were eventually going to do that anyway.
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Doug, I actually looked into storage space for some of the overflow. U-Haul wants $169.95 a month for a 10’x10’ space! That’s ridiculous and not in the modeling budget!
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Oh no! I was joking but am not surprised you looked into the option. Over the years, I have rented storage space on a number of occasions and it was always expensive. I would llllloooovvvveeee to have 1,000 models (and other things) but unless and until I purchase a mansion for myself, it is not happening.
I still want to see a Tiger I war. 
Cheap models encourage people, young and old, to enter the hobby. When model designers fight for dominance, models get better. They become more accurate. They get cheaper.
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I’m with you Doug. You’ve got the right mantra. Bring on the [accurate] Tiger I War!
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Ahem… We have talked about the conex box. One time purchase…
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Before I sound off, is this a reissue or new? Where is David in this discussion? Dragon is not competitive with Takom price wise. Other than a different set of decals, what are they providing that outshines Takom. There is not enough information shown yet.
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I don’t hate Dragon – I have a buttload of their kits – but they definitely have their ‘dum-dum’ moments. Of my ten Tigers four are Dragons, three are Takom, two RFM, and the crusty old Tamiya “Grey 332”.
I love the Dragon Tigers I have, but Dragon is struggling to justify their value in light of the new companies like Takom releasing kits reminiscent of Dragon in their prime and at a similar price point as back then. I managed to get mine when they still had the PE and metal barrels although I have a few that swapped the Magic Tracks for DS which I do not like at all. RFM saved me on all my Panzer III’s with their cheap working sets of track.
Dragon needs to reassess the value their products represent in the context of the current market. They are not competing against just Italeri and Tamiya now. Trumpeter and Hobby Boss are starting to climb up Dragon’s backside as well because they paid attention to the market.
A further example: I built all the Italeri Sd.Kfz 234’s years ago because that was basically it until Dragon came along. I picked up a Dragon /3 and /4 to replace the Italeri’s, but when the /2 reboots arrived I chose the RFM rather than keeping looking for a cheap Dragon. I’d rather another RFM for the /1 over the Miniart as I’d prefer to skip the fiddly-factor I have with Miniart.
But the Dragon I no longer worry about as the justification to pay what Dragon asks is not there in my opinion.
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It’s a MONO Dragon, produced for the Japanese market mainly. More fun (less suck) than a typical Dragon kit.
Magic tracks, maybe some new parts, possibly more or improved PE from what I recall in general. There’s five prior MONO Dragon kits.
Instructions are in a different format MONO Dragon T-34 1940 look much better than the typical sucky Dragon sheet etc.
Dragon’s Tiger kit’s are very nice etc.
HTH
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