| Date of Review |
June 2005 |
| Manufacturer |
DML |
| Subject |
Flak Artillery Crew 1943-45 |
| Scale |
1/35 |
| Kit Number |
6275 |
| Primary Media |
99 parts (87 in grey styrene, 12 etched brass) |
| Pros |
Permits use with any other Flak gun or gun mount; extra arms and heads give figures a "multipose" capability |
| Cons |
Use of winter camouflage smocks and coveralls limits usefulness of figures by season or location |
| Skill Level |
Basic |
| MSRP (USD) |
$8.95-$10.95 |
DML has fulfilled my prediction that they would release the
gun crew from their new 88 kit separately, and here it is.
In order to make it a bit more useful, DML has included an
extra snippet of a sprue with seven extra arms, a pair of seated
legs, and two extra heads for modifying the kit's figures to
different poses or functions. The directions with artwork by
Ron Volstad show how to use them to make loaders, fuse setters,
pointers, or other functions from the figures in the set.
The set also includes the styrene ammunition sprues from
the 88 kit – four ammo carriers, six loaded and six expended
rounds, and the etched brass case base/rim sections with data
scribed onto them.
The one drawback to the kit is that the figures are wearing
the bulky snow smocks and while the colors may be changed,
they limit applicability of the kit to winter months only.
Hopefully DML will release a companion summer or tropical set
later on, but I suppose in the interim one could use their "Leopold" gun
crew to fill in.
Overall the figures are nice and look like, well, Germans.
For anyone having the old Tamiya kit this set will immediately
give it a boost and correct the one major problem it has had
since it came out in 1973 – dwarf-like figures.
Thanks to Freddie Leung of DML for the review sample.
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