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5/10. A real disappointment - especially as it comes after finishing a Dragon Mid-Tiger and a RFM Panther F. Gaps all over the place. The gun carriage is fixed when it could very easily have been made moveable. The usual Border issue of one part being glued to another without any guide pins. Very poor instructions - multiple missing part numbers (the instructions show the part and the space for the number but it hasn't been filled in). Minimum detail on the IV chassis - for example the driver's viser is filled in - no transparent block, in fact no transparent parts. The barrel muzzel flash has to have the holes drilled (I used a add-on metal barrel instead). Usual very soft Border plastic - which ironically is a benefit given the multitude of injector marks that need to be filled. It comes across as a circa 1970s kit. Reminds me of the Border Crusader.

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Generally a nice kit 7/10. Issues: 1. Rubber band tracks - I swapped in link and link tracks from a Zvezda kit. 2. The rockets have two out of scale rings around the circumference that makes them too big to sit inside the launcher crates (also incorrect as per historical photos) - I swapped the kit's rockets for spares from the excellent Miniart No. 35269 German Rocket Launcher. 3. MAJOR ISSUE: step 22 and 23 instructions for part N20 are incorrect and should be ignored. Step 27 should be used for the placement of N20 - if you use steps 22 and 23 its too late 🙁

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Fit is typlical for an RFM kit. However, there are issues. Instruction step 12 requires holes drilled on the underside right side of the upper casement - but there is nothing to place there - so you then need to fill the holes - the holes may be needed for the interior kit (?). I corrected it by placing T-34 tracks over them on the final kit. The gun carriage appears too low - the gun barrel does not have sufficient evelation because the empty shell bag hits the floor. I suspect that step 9 part G5 requires the mirror G4 piece beneath it to add height (which is not in the instructions) - or remove the shell bag. The kit has an interior version, and assuming the parts are the same for the interior version the biggest issue with the kit is that many of the interior and external parts have moulding marks that will need copious sanding to remove. The separate RFM "extras" set has generous photo etch - but advertises a 3-D muzzel brake when the actual is a barrel travel cover.

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Nice barrel, but either the shells or the model are not sized correctly - the shells are too long to fit the chamber.

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There are no guide holes for the flak gun base plate. There are very mild indentations but no guide holes. If you use the indentations the larger platform that the gun has knocks into the rear seat. Best to remove. The decals are all too large for the dash board locations.