Doug, here’s a link to a similar question asked about 4 months ago on Missing Lynx. I should help you decide which one is better for you. http://www.network54.com/Forum/47207/thread/1301955571/Nashorn+kits
Thanks Rob, that answers my questions. I’ll probably get the AFV club one anyway, just to have everything Nashorn
Doug
Thanks Rob… you have been helpful! Like I said my purchase came with three sets of brass PE and aluminum barrel so I think it was a great deal.
I will look around for a good deal for better Nashorn DML kit on eBay. I opened the old kit #6001 tonight and it looks pretty outdated with low count of part which was untypical of Dragon kits…
With any luck, those sets can be used on a nicer kit. It would seem a shame to waste nice AM stuff on a subpar kit.
Andy, The kit I built was 6414 the Premium version. It was basically an updated tooling of the original one. It was a real mixed bag of good and bad. The air vents on the sides were provided in photoetch to replace the HORRIBLY over scaled kit plastic. However, the PE parts were not easy to work with and were vastly UNDER scaled. So i split the different using the PE box and scratch building the armored slats from suitably thick styrene. I added a huge amount of weld beads around the kit and just did some general updating from photos of the vehicle previously on display at Aberdeen.
Probably the most problematic thing was the colored photographic instructions… they were miserable.
The newest Dragon Nashorn is a sure enough ground up kit. As far as I know there is nothing in common with the original.
That’s a lot of brass Andy. You could try selling it all as a package or individually, then go after the Smart Kit.