Ardelt Waffenträger

Name Ardelt Waffenträger (Item No. FCM 7604)

Producer Fine Cast Models, Germany

Packing Carton box with color picture of completed model on the top

Type of kit Resin casting kit + metal barrel

Quality
All resin parts are very well cast without any bubbles but you can find fine simply removable flash on some of them. The parts are perfectly detailed. The hull is cast including drivers compartment, the gun has very nice lock atc. The chassis is cast in two pieces – wheels with track together, nevertheless these parts also well detailed hence useful. The barrel of the gun is made of metal but this part has to be completed with the resin muzzle brake that is not so well made part because it will take more work to clean internal flash.

Instruction sheet few b/w pictures of built model only

Decals no

General Impression I think you can simply build very nice model of rare tank hunter developed by Germans during late period of WW2 out of this kit.

Note Germans produced only few of these self-propelled 88 mm guns mounted on prolonged chassis of Czech LT38 till the end of WW2, but some of them got in action during final battles in Germany. One of Waffenträgers is on view in Russian tank museum Kubinka.
This kit is one of results of my kit swap with Dutch colleague Hans van Oerle.

Name	Ardelt Waffenträger (Item No. FCM 7604)
Producer	Fine Cast Models, Germany
Packing	Carton box with color picture of completed model on the top
Type of kit	Resin casting kit + metal barrel
Quality	All resin parts are very well cast without any bubbles but you can find fine simply removable flash on some of them. The parts are perfectly detailed. The hull is cast including drivers compartment, the gun has very nice lock atc. The chassis is cast in two pieces – wheels with track together, nevertheless these parts also well detailed hence useful. The barrel of the gun is made of metal but this part has to be completed with the resin muzzle brake that is not so well made part because it will take more work to clean internal flash.
Instruction sheet	few b/w pictures of built model only
Decals	no
General Impression	I think you can simply build very nice model of rare tank hunter developed by Germans during late period of WW2 out of this kit.
Note	Germans produced only few of these self-propelled 88 mm guns mounted on prolonged chassis of Czech LT38 till the end of WW2, but some of them got in action during final battles in Germany. One of Waffenträgers is on view in Russian tank museum Kubinka. This kit is one of results of my kit swap with Dutch colleague Hans van Oerle.