got mine on thursday but didn't get a chance to open it till yesterday. It's a great piece no doubt but there are some nicking issues along the trackguards that might require some minor touch ups. Also, there are some areas where it looks like the black paint they were using might have run slightly?? Not sure, I am not a painter. The trick for me is trying to determine what is weathering/damaged look versus actual damage or sloppy painting.
All in all, I am really really pleased with the set. Lots of open and closeing hatches. I got the Normandy henschel w/o zimmermit. Mine was #51/300.
Definately highly recommend this set- spent a good hour looking at it on my desk yesterday.
. Man, that was hard choice! But even though I am not too mutch of a stickler for exact historical accuracy in terms of which units were deployed at specific battles (I typically just go for what looks good to me regardless)...in the end I decided to go w/ the 113 tank because, correct me if I'm wrong, this unit was involved in the Bulge, per one of Terry's valued history lessons. So in cases where I am indecisive in selecting from multiple variants, historical accuracy can be a tilting factor, relevant to my interest and little shelf dios. I just hope I am recalling correctly the history of the King Tiger units that Terry shared with us. Still, I had a heck of a time choosing though....the 455W (Henschel winter w/out zimm) was the other one I kept going back and forth with. I guess you can't lose either way! Two things I knew for sure were that I wanted were a winter variant and a Henschel type turret (again because this apparently was much more likely to be seen on the battlefield). From that point it all came down to the div # and w/ or w/out zim for me. Now the wait begins. I'll report back w/ commentary and photos upon the King Cat's arrival.:smile2:
