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Barcode: 0 89195 86393 5
Case pack: 20 Pieces per master carton
Box Size: 9.6" x 15" x 3.5"
Features:
Fighting Compartment
- Options provided for fighting compartment roof
- Careful calculations result in correct angles for highly realistic fighting
compartment assembly
- New upper hull w/interlocking detail
- Weld details beautifully rendered
- New storage bin on rear fighting compartment
- Scissors periscope w/mount realistically reproduced
- On-vehicle tools w/clasps
- Intricate slide-molded headlight assembles
- Detailed engine radiator
- Armored guard for air-cooling outlet grills
- Gunner's periscope w/clear plastic represented in detail
- Photo-etched parts for engine deck grills and cupola details
- Front ball-mount MG is movable
- Jack is reproduced w/multiple parts
Gun and Mantlet
- New gun mantlet
- Gun recess w/casting marks for late version
- Cast gun recess w/mulitple curved surfaces beautifully recreated
- Cast gun mantlet is rendered w/360? detail
- Muzzle brake made by slide mold
- Gun sleeve is slide molded
- Metal tow cables
Lower Hull
- Lower hull produced by 2-directional slide molds
- Slide-molded rear stowage boxes
- Delicate spare track rack modeled in detail
- Slide-molded holes for hassle-free fitting
- Exhaust is completely new
Suspension & Track
- Newly tooled bump stop assembly
- Full suspension assembly w/road wheel and idler arms that can be positioned
on uneven terrain
- Track links for sprocket section have guide horns as separate pieces for maximum
accuracy
- Road wheels exhibit fine detail
The Jagdpanther is not only an attractive-looking war machine, but it was also
perhaps the most effective tank destroyer of WWII. A total of 392 Jagdpanthers
(Hunting Panthers) were manufactured, each mounting an 8.8cm PaK43/3 main gun
on a modified Panther chassis and hull. Production commenced in January 1944
and the first vehicles were issued to combat units in June. Although most served
on the Eastern Front, a large number were collected and used in the Battle of
Bulge in December 1944. Dragon has just released a 1/35 scale kit of the Late
Production variant. Late Production vehicles can be identified by such modifications
as a bolted mantlet collar, two-piece PaK43/4 gun barrel, single vision slot
for the driver, revised roof for the fighting compartment, flash-suppressor
exhaust pipes, and a cooling fan for the crew compartment heater.
Dragon’s model is bristling with a sensational level of detail. The kit is based on the hugely popular Jagdpanther G1 Early Production (Item No. 6458), but it has been modified with newly tooled parts to represent all the relevant characteristics of the Late version. The sophisticated curved shape of the gun mantlet has also been masterfully recreated. This new Jagdpanther variant has quite a different look to the previously released kit, and it constitutes a perfect subject for modelers building up a scene from late in WWII. This Jagdpanther is ready to do some serious hunting!