Author | steentottrup |
Timestamp | 08/05/2009 |
Kit(s) | 3,7 cm FlAK 43 |
The kit contains the parts for one 1/72nd scale 3,7 cm FlAK 43, mounted on the Sd.Anh. 58 or dismounted.
The kit comes in the usual MACO cardboard box, with a nice photo of a finished and painted kit. The box contains a single sprue with 59 parts molded in a white coloured, almost transparent, plastic. The box also contains a single A4 sheet with building instructions. The instructions are very detailed 3D drawings in grey tones.
The single sprue has 59 parts, of which the 57 are used to build the gun and the carriage. This kit's sprue share 14 parts with MACO kit #7203, these parts are for the Sd.Anh. 58. A lot of the parts are really tiny and will have to be remove from the sprue very carefully. All the parts have really crisp details, and the smallest parts almost look transparent because of the white plastic.
None of the parts in my kit seem to have any flash. Some of the parts have some sink marks, but it looks like most if not all will be hidden when assembled. A few of the parts also have some ejector marks, but apart from a few on the gun shield, it looks like the others will be hidden when the kit is assembled.
After having build their first kit, the sWS, I've come to expect great qualify from MACO. Like the sWS, this kit is the first plastic kit of the subject (to my knowledge), so that makes it an interesting kit.
Luckily for us, the quality of the kit makes it even more interesting. The crisp details of the parts are what we've come to expect from companies like Dragon and Trumpeter, but not exactly what you count on or expect from a small, "cottage" company like MACO.
Apart from the small ejector marks on the gun shields, it's really hard to fnd anything not perfect about this kit. The gun shield does seems a bit thick, but the parts can hardly be made any thinner. The only other solution would be some PE parts, and with the complexity of the shield, that would make this kits very hard to build for anybody but the experts.
Another great piece of work from Matthias Conrad (and his team?).
This seems like a simple and fast build, and I'll get started right away to get a feel for the fit of the parts etc.