AwardWinner Built Dragon 1/35 DAK Panther III-N Diorama +PE/Resin

Award winner built diorama with paint and real life heavy weathering. Beautiful DAK Desert color with accurate decals and unit markings. Top building quality with outstanding details throughout whole model and very high standard accuracy on every individual part.

Add brass photo-etched parts and clear parts. Magic Tracks with road wheel detail. Add lot`s resin fancy accessories with on vehicle tools. Dioraba base and more add on details. Sublime detail over all model.

Fully detailed weld seams on hull bottom. New one-piece slide-molded lower hull w/ exquisite detail. Slide-molded hydraulic shock absorbers are well detailed. Smoke grenades are turret side hooks provided. Detailed road wheels and drive sprockets.

Final-drive housing covers are separate parts for maximum detail. Gun barrels are slide molded. New gun mantlet authentically reproduced. Complete gun assembly is fully detailed. Newly tooled turret made from -directional slide molds.

Optional extra armor on fighting compartment front plate. Slide-molded stowage bin specific to Pz. Asymmetric stowage bin with different shapes on left- and right-hand sides.

Jerry-can rack on rear of hull made from finely rendered photo-etched and plastic parts. Optional jerry-can rack on turret top for increased building options.

Jerry cans provided as bonus. Fenders w/pattern detail on both top and bottom surfaces.

Add gas drum, jerry can, ammo box, metal chain and more accessories. Diorama base with great mud, gravel and more details. Buffing and polishing to remove mold seam. Base color with primer and putty for better surface detail. Airbrushed and painted with multicolor.

Add clear paint for good finishing on decal applying. Washing to enhance the surface detail increase the appearance of depth including panels, doors, hatches, rivets, bolt head and more. Dry brushing to emphasis and highlighting texture with edge for good wear, tear and fading.

Multi-color filters for blend color effects. Add non glossy paint for better finishing. Great detail paint job on rust and paint chips off with scratches, worn and bare metal realistic simulating, flow rust and rain streaks effects, grease with staining appearing, engine smoking and muffler burned representing. Also smear and dirt with dust and real mud and more on real life weathering.

Final protective layer for long term collection. On January 11, 1934, following specifications laid down by Heinz Guderian, the Army Weapons Department drew up plans for a medium tank with a maximum weight of 24,000 kg and a top speed of 35 km/h. It was intended as the main tank of the German Panzer divisions, capable of engaging and destroying opposing tank forces. Daimler-Benz, Krupp, MAN, and Rheinmetall all produced prototypes. Testing of the prototypes took place in 1936 and 1937, leading to the Daimler-Benz design being chosen for production.

The first Panzer III A came off the assembly line in May of 1937, and a total of ten, two of which were unarmed, were produced in 1937. Mass production of the tank, then in model III F, began in 1939. Between 1937 and 1940, attempts were made to standardize parts between Krupp`s Panzer IV and Daimler-Benz`s Panzer III. Much of the early development work on the Panzer III was a quest for a suitable suspension. Several varieties of leaf-spring suspensions were tried on Ausf A through D before the torsion-bar suspension of the Ausf E was standardized.

The Panzer III, along with the Soviet KV heavy tank, was one of the first tanks to use this suspension design. The Panzer III was intended as the main battle tank of the German forces. It outclassed most of the tanks of the time However, when it initially met the Soviet KV and T-34 tank designs it proved to be inferior. To meet the growing need to counter the T-34 the Panzer III was upgunned with the 50mm KwK 39 L/60 and received more armor which made it a very formidable opponent for the T-34. This still failed to address the problem caused by the KV tanks though, so in 1942, several self propelled guns as well as the longer barreled 75mm Kwk 40 L/43 Panzer IV Ausf F2 and the Panzer IV Ausf G were developed and produced.

In 1942, the Ausf N model of the Panzer III (and the subject of this kit) was created with an L/24 75 mm gun, a low-velocity gun designed for anti-infantry and close-support work. For defensive purposes however, it did carry a few rounds of hollow charge ammunition which could penetrate 70-100mm of armor depending on the round`s variant but these were strictly used for self-defensive purposes. The item "AwardWinner Built Dragon 1/35 DAK Panther III-N Diorama +PE/Resin" is in sale since Saturday, June 25, 2016. This item is in the category "Toys & Hobbies\Models & Kits\Military\Armor".

The seller is "dreamworkshobby" and is located in Scarborough, Ontario. This item can be shipped to North, South, or Latin America, all countries in Europe, all countries in continental Asia, Australia.

• Scale: 1/35
• Type: Armor
• Brand: Dragon Models
• MPN: Does not apply