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Product Specifications
| Model Number: | 35065 |
| Assembly Required: | Yes |
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Product Description
Tamiya 1/35 German Panther Med. Tank # 35065
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Old kit of a Panther tank.
8 Sep 2008
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This is an old Tamiya kit of the German tank Panther A. This was one of the first model kits that I built when I got back into modeling after 25 year absence. The accuracy of this kit leaves much to be desired but it does have the general shape of the Panther A. Track shoes are the rubber-band type with detail only on one side. There are holes in the hull of the kit where switches would protrude out. Back in the 1970's Tamiya made little motors to add to their model kits so that they would actually move around. This is one of those 1970's kits. Total kit parts are about fifty (50). That's alot for a kit over 30+ years old. After market parts will build this kit up into a very respectable representation of a Panther A. Because this is such an old kit, be prepared to have some fit difficulties with the upper to lower hull. My main gun was warped so I used an aftermarket barrel. If you are looking for a kit to start a young person on and not worry about accuracy or detail then this will be a good kit. If you are looking for a kit based on the the Panther A then this is the kit for you also. There are not many, if any, kits out there based on the Panther A. Overall a decent kit. About the only really bad thing about this kit is that a lot of hobby shops like to overprice this kit. Average price for this kit is about $22.00. That's to pricey for a 30+ year old kit. I got lucky about 10 years ago when I got back into modeling when I bought it for $15.00. Seems that now-a-days distributors got to jack the price up on old kits.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Keep this in perspective
23 Dec 2010
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It's interesting that, when creating this review, I was asked a variety of questions about this "toy". I use the word "interesting" because of the history of this particular kit. It was introduced in the 70's when plastic models were primarily a kids hobby. This kit was designed to be motorized. There are holes for screws and switched on the bottom of the hull for this purpose. The designers were obviously targeting kids who would spend, at most, an hour or two building this and then playing with it until they broke it. (Actually, my brother and I once made one of these and blew it up with firecrackers.)
Serious modelers will not consider this kit because of all of its deficiencies. However, given that modern kits for this tank run anywhere from $40 to more than $70, this kit remains a very attractive one for novice modelers or those who are returning to modeling as adults. It's cheap and simple to build. You don't have to worry about a lot of very small parts or dealing with metal parts. You can concentrate on the basics of building and painting a model.
From that perspective, this model (and others like it) still have a place in the modeling world.
Serious modelers will not consider this kit because of all of its deficiencies. However, given that modern kits for this tank run anywhere from $40 to more than $70, this kit remains a very attractive one for novice modelers or those who are returning to modeling as adults. It's cheap and simple to build. You don't have to worry about a lot of very small parts or dealing with metal parts. You can concentrate on the basics of building and painting a model.
From that perspective, this model (and others like it) still have a place in the modeling world.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Panther Scene
20 Mar 2011
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Please everyone who built the older Tamiya kits, they are still out there and in my photos you will see the results of models and the effort put into them. The Panther kit may be older than some of the people working on it but it lends itself to details.
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