An early manufactured Pz. II C from 5 Light Div.. The chassis NO. was seen on the front superstructure.
It seemed there was an upgraded armor mounted on the mantlet. Not sure if this Pz. II C was revised from type B (Sd.Kfz. 121), maybe analysts could check the chassis NO. to determine the vehicle’s production batch.
The 5 Light Div. Regimental doctor's Pz. II C on the cargo ship crossing the Mediterranean. The insignia of 3 Pz. Div. was still painted on front armor.
The Pz. II C from headquarter of regiment. The capital R painted on turret implied this vehicle was directly affiliated to regimental headquarter. However, I did not know whether this Pz II C was from 15 or 21 Pz. Div..
In my point of view, this Pz. II C was very likely to be a vehicle of 15 Pz. Div. because of the jerrycan case was mounted on the left rear fender (Most of Pz. II from 15 Pz. Div. chose to place their jerrycans on left rear fender).
Adrian Forest For teeny-tiny too-small-for-tweezers photo-etch, I recommend a wax pencil. Might still be impossible, but maybe slightly less impossible? 🙂
22 August 2021, 21:33
J D Adrian, thanks for your recommendation and I will have a try later.
Conversion of Dragon 6812 and my final product will be Dragon 6752.
The benefits of Dragon 6812 is the box not only contains the original sprue of 6812, but also includes all parts of Dragon 6752 (mine roller panzer II in North Africa), it indicates that there is a possibility for me to convert the 6812 into 6752.
However, some drawbacks of Dragon kits are also significant. Firstly, the Dragon SK is not relatively but extremely expensive comparing to some other brands. It costs me 268 Chinese Yen (Over 50 Canadian dollars) to buy this kit and the prices of panzer II for Tamiya, Academy or some other brands are all below 150 Chinese Yen. The second problem is that most Dragon smart kits are not smart at all, their instruction manual booklets are not foolish but very foolish, a lot of typos and mistakes can be easily found and they never try to correct them. Lastly, some plastic or PE parts from Dragon kits are super super tiny and it is extremely complex for us to do constructions. Sometimes I can not even hold them by using the smallest tweezer, so how should I glue those tiny parts!!! Are you f*cking kitting me, Dragon???
Adrian Forest
