Dragon Pz.Kpfw.iV Ausf.D 1/35

Well over 200 Panzer IV Ausf. D medium support tanks were produced between October 1939 and May 1941. These armoured vehicles, armed with 7.5cm KwK37 L/24 guns, formed the backbone for early German military successes in France, the Balkans, North Africa and Russia.
This kit can be assembled into one of these 3 different Pz.Kpfw. IV D versions:
1) Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf.D Production Version
2) Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf.D Add-On Armor Version
3) Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf.D Tropical
Features
- Turret & Cupola
- 5-directional slide-moulded commander's cupola - which authentically recreates structural details
- Newly tooled Ausf.D turret
- Accurate weld pattern on turret
- The first kit ever to include the hollowed out undercut on the turret bottom
- Incorporates toothed turret ring on turret interior
- Turret turntable unit included
- Turntable w/ accurate floor pattern
- Commander's, loader's and gunner's seats included
- Vision port w/ open or closed option
- Cupola hatch can be assembled open or closed
- Commander's hatch w/ interior detail
- Clear parts for vision port windshield
- Direct sighting post can be made from supplied photo-etched parts
- Storage bin can be assembled open / closed
- Optional delicate lock attachment included
- Signal ports and ventilation hatch cover can be modelled open / closed
- Side hatches can be assembled open / closed w/ interior details
- Newly tooled hatch hinges allow hatches to realistically swing open
- Pistol port can be shown open / closed

Gun
- Slide-moulded co-axial MG w/ hollow muzzle
- Full co-axial MG assembly
- Newly tooled front turret armour and mantlet
- Complete gun assembly w/ full detail
- Beautifully detailed Kwk37 L/24 gun
- Correct catcher for used ammo shells
- Detailed gun muzzle
- Accurate rifling inside gun barrel
- Mantlet guard can be removed and gun unloaded like real vehicles
- Mantlet view port can be modelled open / closed
Upper Hull
- Correct driver’s vision port can be modelled open / closed
- The first kit ever to model the driver's interior periscope assembly in fine detail
- Driver's hatch and radio operator's hatch w/ interior detail and external rubber bump stops
- Accurately modelled hull top armour plating
- Hatches can be assembled open / closed
- Complete MG w/ workable MG ball-mount
- Brand new front pistol port
- Metal wire for spare wheel rack
- Both regular and DAK type engine deck hatches available
- Photo-etched grill under engine deck hatches
- Realistic double-layered air intake
- Newly tooled add-on hull armour plates for Ausf.D
- Air intake covers have option of injection or photo-etched parts
- Add-on side armour plates come as separate parts
- Newly tooled hull side with authentic details
- Detailed on-vehicle tools w/ clasps are injection moulded
- Additional on-vehicle tools w/o clasps
- Extendable jack w/ separate parts
- Headlights with clear parts inside
- Towing cable heads have hollow ends courtesy of slide moulds
- Mounting ladder can be made from photo-etched parts
- Track tools can be made from photo-etched parts
- Accurately designed transmission and steering brake access hatches can be modelled open / closed
- Fans and coupling modelled in several parts to provide interior detail
- Bolts and rivets are accurately represented
- New front spare track bracket

Lower Hull & Rear
- The world's first kit with duel hull with and without additional side armour
- Newly tooled lower hull formed from multiple parts for greater detail
- Hull bottom has full and correct details
- New armour for front hull
- Fuel filler hatch open / closed option
- Accurate fuel filler caps for both armoured and unarmoured hulls
- Towing eye brackets in extreme detail w/ numerous separate parts
- Chain on towing eye brackets made from photo-etched parts
- Newly designed Ausf.D rear hull
- Cooling drain cap w/ photo-etched chain
- Newly designed smoke candle rack
- Exhaust pipe w/ fine detail
- Newly designed muffler
- Newly tooled cleaning rod for Ausf.D
- Separate front and rear fenders can be posed in a folded back position
- Injected fenders are made to the thinnest possible dimensions
- Side fenders w/ pattern detail on both top and bottom surface
- Taillight w/ photo-etched parts
- Hooks for tow rope made w/ preformed brass rod

Wheels & Tracks
- Realistic suspension w/ multiple components actually works like the real vehicle's
- Suspension armoured covers come as separate parts
- Idler adjuster mountings have the most accurate details possible w/ gear inside
- Correctly detailed idler wheels w/ numerous separate parts
- Astoundingly delicate slide moulded and photo-etched parts
- Road wheels exhibit extreme detail w/ separate rubber rims and hubs
- Accurately portrayed width on rubber rims of wheels
- Totally new sprocket wheels w/ breathtaking detail and multiple delicate parts / Optional bolts for added detail
- Newly tooled final drive housing w/ details on both sides
- Separate armoured cover for final drive housing
- Convenience of "Magic Tracks"
- Both left and right tracks accurately modelled
- Accurately portrayed width on rubber rims of wheels
- The first kit ever to recreate road wheels that can accommodate the different shape of Ausf.D hubcaps
- Includes Ausf.E hubcaps and road wheels for mixed wheel option

Bonus items
- Bonus set of fenders w/no locating holes-to preserve fender details and provide more freedom for customisation by modellers
- Newly tooled early-style jerry cans w/ photo-etched parts
- Metal wire for front and rear lamp electrical wiring
- Metal towing cable
- Brass ammo
- Bonus aluminium barrel
- New Carftograf decals
Paint and glue not included