Description
New kid on the block, Border Models from China. This kit is their third offering and they continue to deliver cracker kits!
This is an mazing kit, the molding is fine and crisp, the kit is virtually flash free and extremely well detailed. They use modern slide holding technology and have included a metal barrel with rifling and a resin commander figure and lots of very good photo etch. Detailed photo reference booklet and instructions. There is a North Africa scheme included.
Pz.IV AUF. F1 "Vorpanzer"
The up armoured version of this Panzer IV Auf. F "Vorpanzer" (Vorpanzer translates best to additional armour) with extra bolted appliqué armour on the sides, gun mantlet and frontal glacis. In 1941 Hitler had been informed that in the battles in North Africa that armour-piercing rounds are becoming a problem from English tanks and had asked that new production Panzers be equipped w/ spaced armour in front of the main armour. Krupp-Essen works reported that there is a shortage of material for the Vorpanzers - and eventually the idea was dropped with the production of the Ausf. G with the longer 7.5-cm KwK.