i’m tryin’ to figure out how to answere “whats the point” , but if you look at Steve’s beautiful Panther, with the Maybach engine in the back, the rounds in their stowage points, the transmission, drivetrain,torsion bars, turret detail et al, and absorb the knowlege you gain from building all those parts and how they inter act, how cool it looks, and how realistic it looks, I guess that is the point–knowlege-- tread[:)]
It’s true that building a fully-detailed interior can be very satisfying. Some years back, I build the interior detail version of the Academy 1/35 Tiger I, correcting most of their errors and omissions. A plus point was that the kit was designed for the hull deck turret roof and turret to be removeable, so that the interior could be displayed.
Did take me a couple of years, on and off, though.
Cheers,
Chris.
Build it…
& they will come… [swg]
Gonna have some fun my current Panzer IV… Engine’s a Packard-Rolls Merlin from a 1/32 Phantom Mustang (that may change to a 1/24th Ford 351 though), tranny’s a Lee/Sherman-type, everything else is epoxy putty, copper screen, wire, some ABS, and Evergreen strip, sheet and rod…
In other words, a typical Hammer-build…
My current project is Dragon’s Panzer IA Modified version, with the full interior and tranmission. I’m sort of regreting the extra work required to create interior details that will be a chore to display. Everything’s SO tiny on this model!