Monday, September 24, 2007 - 10:54 PM UTC
Once again, playing 'catch-up' with the most prolific company out there - Dragon Models, a series of new releases announced which include 1/35th and 1/72nd scale.
Beginning with 1/35th scale:

DRA6427 - Sd.Kfz.250/1 NEU this is an extensively reworked kit of the light German AFV.

Secondly, the latest in DML's Premium Edition figure releases with:

DRA6410 - German Cossacks

In 1/72nd scale, there are also two new releases:

DRA7320 - SU-85 Tank Destroyer

DRA7280 - Sd.Kfz.251/10 Aust.D w/3.7cm PaK


Images of all the new kits can be seen at the side:
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I don't believe it.... I bought 2 sets of those Cossacks a few weeks back... now they release the updated set! I imagine the new set will be quite impressive, as the older kit is pretty good. Thanks Jim Rudi
SEP 24, 2007 - 11:42 PM
Hi Jim how are you doing? Odd choice of Dragon to do a 251/10 Ausf D with full shield - perhaps the kit has the smaller/part shields as well, but I've never seen a photo of a full shield on an Ausf D. In fact I can't remember ever seeing a 251/10 Ausf D photo at all; I'm sure there must be some somewhere - anyone like to post one up? Obviously anything goes at the end of the war, but it's an unlikely combination.
SEP 24, 2007 - 11:46 PM
Now you mention it... It does seem like an odd choice to me as well - a 251/10 'B' or 'C' I could understand, the 'D' confuses me mightily....
SEP 25, 2007 - 12:02 AM
I also picked up the Cossack set as well. I will just have to add the new kit to my wish list. I'm going to feel like I am modeling the Old West instead of WWII.
SEP 25, 2007 - 12:05 AM
nice release!!
SEP 25, 2007 - 12:23 AM
Unfortunately where the 251/10 D is concerned, this smacks a bit of opportunism to me - the dies are all existing, it's just a shake up of existing parts, & as Catch 22 & Jim say, it's unlikely if not incorrect. The height of the full shield was a problem that was quite quickly addressed, photos of Ausf C vehicles commonly show the cut down shield, or even lack of one altogether. However, it is likely that some sort of close support weapon was deemed necessary in the panzergrenadier platoon, since there was widspread adaption of the 2.8cm Panzerbusche to this role evidenced in Normandy, so an Ausf D 251/10 is possible, but definitely without the shield. The 251/10 was usually issued to the platoon HQ halftrack BTW. I'll be after the Sdkfz 250 though. The box art looks like it came straight from a photo in the After the Battle "Ruckmarsch" book.
SEP 25, 2007 - 11:48 AM
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