Description
1/35 Sd. Kfz. 251/17 Ausf. D Half Track w/2cm Kwk38
This 251 kit comes complete with a newly tooled Kwk38! A great addition for the 251 enthusiast!
Main Features:
- Completely new tooling of 2cm Kwk38 w/ detailed pedestal
- Gun can elevate as the real thing
- One-piece barrel w/ hollowed out muzzle courtesy of slide molds
- Highly detailed gun sight unit
- Removable feed cover for separate ammo magazine
- Slide-molded ammo magazine is highly detailed
- Operator's seat can be positioned at different elevations
- Three types of gun shields including:
1) one-piece slide-molded gun shield
2) bonus photo-etched gun shield
3) bonus pre-formed metal gun shield - New ammo rack w/ photo-etched parts
- New roof armor plate
- Dragon's convenient ez-tracks
- Additional individual tracks
- Brass width indicator rod
- Photo-etched part for lower hull details
- Side stowage boxes can be modeled open or closed
- Clear vision blocks can be shown in open or close position
- Bonus driver
- Cartograf decal sheets with a range of markings and license plates
About the 251/17 w/Kwk38:
The German Sd.Kfz. 251 series of half-tracks was extremely successful, and it spawned a whole range of specialist variants. One of these was the 251/17, a half-track mounting a 2cm KwK38 cannon. A mounting on the Ausf. D chassis allowed the single-barreled gun to be fitted without altering the superstructure, and on later versions the cannon was placed in a small armored turret mounted on a pedestal.
