The decal options and specific vehicles are an important aspect of the kit so I will deal with those in their own chapter rather than trying to fit information on eight tanks here.

I would suggest going through the main book and noting the changes in the appropriate steps so you don't have to keep flipping back and forth.Ī small history of the Kursk battle is provided, along with photos of four of the kit's eight decal options. This is something that seems to be beyond Dragon. I'm glad that Border at least caught them and made a note of it. It seems that there are a lot of printed mistakes in the instructions. it looks like most newer Tiger I kits.īe sure to pay attention to the large erratta sheet. I do not plan to show every sprue in this introduction. Construction is broken down into thirty-seven assembly steps, spread out over fifteen pages. That way, I can focus more on building.īorder provides a large, nicely illustraged (and color) instruction book. I would, therefore, refer you to David Byrden's excellent Tiger site for specific accuracy issues and points. Hopefully, it lives up to at least some of the pre-release publicity.īefore I get too far into things, I want to note that, while I will try to catch or point out accuracy issues. This is my first experience with a Border kit, and this one certainly had a lot of hype behind it. You get eight sets of decals for the kit, but the decals may or may not be appropriate for the type of Tiger depicted by the plastic parts. This kit purports to build a Tiger from the battle of Kursk, in the Summer of 1943.Border provides some extra parts (not as many as Rye Field) to accomodate this. Tiger I Early Production, July to August 1943 'Kursk'ġ/35 Scale plastic assembly kit with photo-etched details, extensive decal options, color painting guide and weathering instructions metal barrel, clear parts, replica German Knight's Cross badge and ribbon. Other modellers can reply to the chapters and ask questions and make suggestions. They are updated regularly with a new photograph and a description. Track-Link Build Logs These Build Logs are journals that modellers keep of current projects.

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