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Armourfast 1/72 Pz Kpfw III Aus G

 I decided to work on something a bit simpler and stepped away from the Jagdtiger project for the moment. I normally post my wargaming stuff on Men in Boxes but I decided that since the topic was more on making a simple tank kit, maybe they'd be better off here. What I've unboxed here are two boxes of Armourfast's quick-build Pz Kpfw III Aus G's in 1/72 scale. The kits are very, very simple to build with just the chassis, the left and right tracks and road wheels, the hull, turret and gun making up the parts, aside from a few detailing stuff. You'de need to clean up some mold lines but these are very minimal. Aligning the tracks and roadwheel assemblies will entail some eyeballing with reference material as essential since there are no locator pins. The same goes for the little pasrts that attach to the superstructure and turrets. Armourfast  didn't provide locator holes for any:( I built up two boxes worth in an hour and primed and sprayed them a de