You might remember me if you're in for the long haul here, I sued to be an active modeller here, then I took an arrow... no wait...
Anyhow, I chose something rather simple for my return to activity... wanted to be here again a couple of weeks ago but we had to do house sitting for my in-laws and trust me, managing a flat and garden that is run by two full time stay at home pensioners with two full-time employed people is hell... especially if their cat is behaving like the ***hole she is
.I love cats, I really do, but I freely admit to hating Mathilda...
Anyhow, now I'm back... I hope
So while looking for a simple kit I stumbled upon this re-issued F/F2/G by Italeri... it's a fairly old kit that used to be regarded as quite a decent kit in it's day, so let's give it a go!
(Of course it won't be a Afrika F... as usual with me (
) it will be a F2 for Case Blue... because I'm an Eastern Front geek AND I have a AM F2 barrel ) Let's open it up and have look =>
First things first: this re-issue comes with a corrected turret...more on that later
and some etch. I doubt this will suffice to give the kit enough of an edge on the newer releases, but it's very nice to have it included!The turned barrel is AM and really necessary.
Quality is older but okay... the MG-34 though is, in all honesty, pathetic, but that's okay, I have a ton of these lying around here...
Okay, cards on the table here: the turret bulge that was plain wrong on the old version is gone (yay!), however there is not a single welt line on the whole kit... now this is going to be fun...
Detail here is okay, again older but ...okay.
The barrels are of course completely unusable. It's not visible in the photograph but aside from being detail-free two-piece constructions they also come warped...
The figures are typical of the 80s... soft detail in all places plus they're for the Afrika campaign, so they'll go straight to the box-o-stuff...
Anyhow, As my habit i started on the turret and immediatly noticed that it has no detail whatsoever on the roof...as in none..nada..zip
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It's supposed to look like this =>
(of course it`s also not supposed to have welt lines on the sides, this was a brain 404 from me, it's been shamefacedly corrected
)
On Philipp's suggestion I might fill the holes to be almost flush with the turret , maybe I'm insane enough to try and cut a screw slit into them, but let's see... would be nicer if those where just bolts, but we're talking late interbellum German design here, of course it's countersunk screws..
Anyhow, that's more progress than I managed over the last half year at least...
Best regards
Raoul G. Kunz
I still have nightmares of an Italeri Tiger 1 that tormented me so much I drove it straight into the spares box 
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