Directly from MR Models.
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Not by the postman but from our show this past Saturday. Seem to be on an IDF mode. Got the Dragon M51 only because it was a Premium Edition kit with lots of extras and for $20 I just couldn’t pass it up. With the addition of these 4 kits my stash now numbers 8 unbuilt and 2 in progress.
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Someone should do a campaign…
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I’m strongly considering one starting early next year. I now have 8 German half tracks and an M2A1
Thinking about cracking open the 251/9 first
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Not from the postman, but from a work colleague who owns a 3D printer.
Not provided in the kit, but sorely needed, a jig for the ridiculously fiddly track link assembly on Dragon’s 8 ton Halftrack… Note that the track’s guide horns are on the inside and in order to create a workable track, you need a stable surface in order to be able to firstly, join two links together so that they’re flat and secondly, to be able to then attach the track pad without getting glue into the joint.
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I’ve only built one of those Dragon Sd.Kfz. 7s, but didn’t like the tracks much. Still better than the 251, though, which assembles the same but the parts are much smaller. The only way I found of doing that one was to just glue the blocks to the links and only clip them together when they had dried, usually losing one of the pins in the process — but hey, better than trying to trap them between block and link.
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Now that is cool. I like that a lot … 
… be gone temptation, must get back to the MAZ!
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Nice haul,i have Takom’s Greif on pre order
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I’ve got this - cracking book!
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Thanks! I thought about getting the big box from Andy’s with the /1 and /3 in it, but scale hobbyist had the Das Werk 250 Neu for $30 and I have wanted it for a while but didn’t want to pay the $60 everywhere else has it for
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That book’s title has me wondering why it only goes to 1986? Did the uniforms change drastically then, and the author didn’t want to cover the last four years?
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It might just be that the author decided say, in 1984, to produce book on said subject, acquired 2 years of research then published it. | don’t necessarily think it was time sensitive as such or even an avoidance of history(!)
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Published in 1990, apparently. Odd choice, then, IMHO — if you’re writing it at that time, knowing the country will soon be gone, why not extend it to cover all of the DDR’s history?
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Fair point; but perhaps it just comes down to assembling all the research you think you’re going to get, then going for publication. Or, as the Socialist State of Peasants and Workers began to crumble, perhaps in those final years access was cut off, or at least made more difficult?
My first suggestion reminds me of modelling in a way: one researches until the nth degree, but at what point does one start putting glue on to plastic?
Anyway, I take your point that the volume is really incomplete; I was surprised to discover for instance, that the final iterations of NVA personal equipment included British fastenings on the belt, taken from the (Brit) '37 pattern; I mean, what the hell? There again of course, the book is about uniforms not equipment. I feel it is still a valuable resource.
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