In the process of getting the Tamiya #113 Greif together, bought it cuz I fell in love with the boxart when the kit came out and wanted to test the dessert paintscheme, Dessert yellow over panzer grey, panzer grey interior.
The kit came out in 1979 and the kit has not aged with beauty.
Evrything is out of scale, engine and radio are grossly oversized, the drive chain detailed in the interior does not line up with the exterior… and so forth.
But it is still heavily prized, 7 BigMacs in Sweden.
Conclusion [2c]…stay away from this one and lets hope that DML has allready spotted the business oportunity.
Looks like inspite of the overscale issues with the kit, that you are doing a very nice job with it. The average modeller, (like me) probably wouldn’t have noticed the short comings unless we were looking at line drawings, and specs. Never the less, Thanks for pointing out the overscale issues. Semper Fi, Mike
I will gett the DML Chuck, the subject is worth it!
It is Greif not grief TTman [;)]:
“The griffin, in Dutch, in Swedish and in the old Low-German language, is an animal that only exists in the mythology: it’s half a lion and half a bird of prey. He mostly is portrayed as a winged animal, the upper part of the body being an eagle, and the lower part of the body being a lion…”
Thx Mike,very much appreciated!
She is coming out OK and is a neat biuld after all, but ey, when the inner detail is 10mm offline with the exterior and the driver is sitting 15 cm above inner floor you dont really need line drawings to say that this is overprized
If you think the Tamiya one was bad you should try the old… old …old Airfix 1/32
kit. Everything you love about modelling, poor fit, crude parts and what they didn’t
know they made up. The Tamiya kit was a dream to it, though I don’t know about
the Dragon kit.
