Dragon kits, need short list of quality kits

[Gb64c]

Hi

Soon I will travel to Japan and plan to buy many kits, and pick up some Dragon kits if cheaper then online. I would like if someone could recommend some Dragon WW2 armor kits and modern armor kits.

need kit numbers.

Had a bad experience with an older Dragon, so a new kit preferred

One or two of each power, with the exception of German, which will need more recommendations.

Interested in

German
Pz IV
Panther
Tiger
Leopard 2

Russian
T34
JS
KV

US
Sherman
Abrams
Bradley

UK
Challenger

Is
merveka

Any other you think might be good kits.

Thanks

[LudvigN]

Im not an armor guy but from what Ive picked up on this forum, the Bradley to get is from Meng, which would be cheaper in the far east as well

[mannloon]

Pz IV, anything after 6264 is great. that's almost 10 years of kits. check here http://www.scalemates.com/products/prod ... ?id=177021

Panther anything after 6268 is good as it was the new tooling but even the older Panther kits are ok. The Premium kits are very nice too like 6299. Again check here. http://www.scalemates.com/products/prod ... ?id=130176

Tiger...well the main kits to look for are 6252 (Initial) and 6253 (Late) as they're the first in the tooling from back in the super kit/goodie box era of 2005. After that 6600 (Initial), 6406 (Rebox Late without the goodies), 6383 (Late with Zimmerit) and 6700 (Mid with Zimmerit) are the main Dragon kits. However if you can find the Cyber Hobby white box Tiger kits there, those are very expensive online. Most notably is 6286 (DAK) which goes for $400 on ebay. Also there is a new Wittmann Cyber Hobby Tiger coming out very soon 6730, but basically you can't go wrong with Dragon or Cyber Hobby Tigers. Even the Orange Box budget Tiger is worth picking up. It's become slightly harder to find cheap here as everyone bought one.

the scalemates Tiger page. http://www.scalemates.com/products/prod ... ?id=108329

[Gb64c]

Thanks a good start, I will look at some of the higher end Tigers and Panthers

Pz IV, anything after 6264 is great. that's almost 10 years of kits. check here http://www.scalemates.com/products/prod ... ?id=177021

Panther anything after 6268 is good as it was the new tooling but even the older Panther kits are ok. The Premium kits are very nice too like 6299. Again check here. http://www.scalemates.com/products/prod ... ?id=130176

Tiger...well the main kits to look for are 6252 (Initial) and 6253 (Late) as they're the first in the tooling from back in the super kit/goodie box era of 2005. After that 6600 (Initial), 6406 (Rebox Late without the goodies), 6383 (Late with Zimmerit) and 6700 (Mid with Zimmerit) are the main Dragon kits. However if you can find the Cyber Hobby white box Tiger kits there, those are very expensive online. Most notably is 6286 (DAK) which goes for $400 on ebay. Also there is a new Wittmann Cyber Hobby Tiger coming out very soon 6730, but basically you can't go wrong with Dragon or Cyber Hobby Tigers. Even the Orange Box budget Tiger is worth picking up. It's become slightly harder to find cheap here as everyone bought one.

the scalemates Tiger page. http://www.scalemates.com/products/prod ... ?id=108329