Dois interessantes lanÇamentos do jÁ tradicional fabricante.
A dificuldade, como sempre, É o preÇo final, na nossa casa.
LanÇado em Agosto de 2015
Dragon has launched a fantastic, new large-scale warship! The new kit is an accurate 1/700 scale rendition of USS Lake Erie (CG-70), a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser. Entering service on 24 July 1993, she was the first US Navy (USN) ship commissioned in Hawaii. Serving with the Pacific Fleet, Lake Erie was the 24th Ticonderoga-class cruiser to be built. With a standard displacement of 9,800 tonnes and a length of 173m, the cruiser is armed with 122 missiles (including the likes of the SM-2MR, SM-2ER, SM-3, ESSM and Tomahawk), eight Harpoon anti-ship missiles, two Mk 45 5-inch guns, two 25mm Mk 38 guns and two Phalanx CIWS. Importantly, she is equipped with the Aegis combat system, and has served as test ship for missile exoatmospheric intercept flights. Perhaps USS Lake Erie is best known for her successful shoot down of a failed US satellite in February 2008 with a modified SM-3 missile.
This new kit builds on the sophistication of Dragon’s previous warship releases. Made accurately to 1/700 scale, the plastic kit is just brimming with sublime detail. As usual, the ship is offered with both a full hull and a waterline hull to give modelers the choice as to how best display the impressive cruiser. This kit features NEW 127mm main guns of L/64 caliber and details are all up to scratch as well. Photo-etched parts are included in the box. This American guided-missile cruiser is ready to cruise into a stunning display straight from the box!
LanÇamento para Setembro de 2015
Pz,kpfww IV Mit Panther F Turret
Dragon has an extremely comprehensive family of 1/35 scale Panzer IV kits in its range. Indeed, Dragon can offer a modern and accurate kit of every member of the Panzer IV family – the A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and J! Although the Panzer IV was built, and widely served, throughout WWII, there was a desire to field even better tank designs. One interesting concept that appeared in November 1944 was to mount a Panther Ausf.F turret upon a Panzer IV hull. However, it was soon decided that doing this would overburden the Pz.Kpfw.IV chassis, and the idea was thus rejected. The Ausf.F Schmalturm narrow turret would have mounted a 7.5cm KwK.42 (KwK.44/1 L/70) gun. The Panther F had been slated for production in April 1945, but the end of the war put an end to those plans.
This 1/35 scale plastic kit represents in plastic the fruition of that project's ambition. The highly detailed kit is closely based on Dragon’s leading model of the Panzer IV, and of course it features an appropriately rendered Panther Ausf.F turret. In fact, to accommodate the new turret, the upper hull has been completely retooled with the correct details. The unique-looking tank also wears a set of detailed side skirts. While the design was destined to be confined to history as yet another paper panzer, this kit offers modelers the chance to build and enjoy something of an oddity!
