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K-Wagen (Kolossal Wagen)

Kit # A7201

Scale: 1/72

Material: Resin & Photo-Etch

Review date: October, 2009

Quality: detail is a bit soft and the photo-etch is used for some surface details. Large plugs/runners of resin need to be carefully removed from all the parts.

Parts: Resin (46) Photo-Etch (25)

Instructions: Exploded diagram, parts numbering and paint/decals scheme

Packaging: Cardboard box and heat-sealed plastic bags

Additional: Front hull plate is lacking the following: 1. driver's vision slit, 2. front gunner's firing hole with vision slit 3. front gunner's MG. The commander's cupola hatch is molded shut, and there are no crew doors molded on the sponsons. The hull bottom is a true problem. You have to carefully glue the bogies to the inside of the hull that has a taper to it, and they are only held on by 1 side. the hull bottom plate comes in 2 pieces and is not wide enough to touch each bogie's inside. Also there are no supports for any of these pieces, no locating holes, no tabs, nothing, only a very finely scratched line to help align the bogies. Decals are included, but since the K-Wagen was a 'late war' panzer, the Germans were beginning to use the "Balken Cross" on their tanks in 1918, so the "Maltese Cross" is probably wrong for this. The color scheme is also incorrect. There is no verification that the Germans were using this shade of gray in WW1. This is the 1st kit of the German WW1 K-Wagen in any scale.

Model Build Review: K-Wagen

Assembled Model: WW1