Dragon has just released their TWENTIETH iteration of the fabled Mk IV since 2006:
This is werke number 15634500 finished on September 16, 1943 on assembly line # 9…
When will stop… 229th iteration?
I agree. They are just rehashing the same kit, adding or taking away a few bits. But, i don’t think its taking effort away from releaseing other kits as i doubt much effort goes into it. And i can’t imagine many people would want to get every one.
Maybe if zee Germans had standardized the Pz.IV instead of changing it all the friggin’ time, Dragon wouldn’t have an excuse…
Thats it, its the Germans fault for making changes to improve there tanks [:D]
And i like that dragon have now decided that Pz IV’s should be broken down into Early Mid and late production.
Dragon has two unstated goals; the first is to produce a figure set that eventually includes every German soldier from WW2 and secondly to reproduce every German tank by serial number.
Maybe…
I forsee, by 2030 there will be more variations of the Panzer IV kit then there were invading the USSR
Anything worth killing is worth over-killing. [;)]
interesting .
Ron
Definitely a case of capitalizing on their initial investment in the molds as much as possible. While I’m a fan of German armor, I don’t really need to build every single variant by production month but on the flip side, can recognize that there are those who do and this allows for that without resorting to resin AM, scratchbuilding, etc. Just because Pz IV nuts just don’t have the same visibility as say the Tiger or Panther nuts doesn’t mean they can’t be catered to by DML in styrene. [;)]
yes…
I would rather them do this overkill, then not release hardly anything new, like Tamiya does.
I wish they would concentrate on the M4 now.
As others have mentioned, it’s overkill fo sure but I would rather them do this, make money on it, and then use that money to develop new molds.
Aren’t they though? How many M4’s have they released lately? I don’t pay attention to M4’s very much but it seems like there’s always a Dragon Sherman on the recently released lists I look at.
Erik
From what i can see, this is just what they are not doing. Ok, there comes a point, especially when doing things from the past, when you can’t produce anything new. But i don’t think that point has come yet and they just seem to be churning out kits that are variatons of somthing they already have.
That they are, but there has been a smattering of brand new molds released with all these variants of kits already released(RSO, M2/3 halftracks,M3 chassis, Opel Blitz, Neubaufahrzeug etc). Of course they’re going to keep releasing kits that can be made with smallest cost to them.
Erik
Yes, just like the million Shermans and Tigers. Sooner or later they have to run out of them. [;)]
This just in, new Dragon PzKpfw IV Ausf G with markings of the tank Michael Wittmann walked by on his way to the chow line on Wednesday, March 11, 1944.
at 3:57 pm during a hailstorm…
O come on, now your just being silly.
Every one knows that was a Pz V