"...Another indication of the research that has gone into this kit is the ammo storage arrangement. It not only includes the three boxes for the gun¡¦s pedestal, but it also includes the three extra ammo boxes, as well as the bulk ammo bin, that were mounted towards the rear of the fighting compartment. DML¡¦s designers did their homework!"
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- Frank
De Sisto
"...Overall this is a popular conversion of the 251 series, and having a kit of this quality should be well received. Modelers should not be put off by the huge number of parts, for nearly half of them are either optional or excess, and will fill up a parts box nicely..."
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- Cookie Sewell
"...The kit does represent good value for money in including the two full hulls and two sets of track along with the bonus figures and will build into an attractive model of this interesting vehicle.
As a footnote, the ¡§Drilling¡¨ is one of my favourite 251 variants and I have bought over the years the Calibre35 and Lead Warriors ¡§Drilling¡¨ update sets and on comparing the Dragon parts to those sets the resin parts obviously have some details more finely cast than is possible with injected plastic but overall the Dragon gun and mounting scrubs up a lot better than some other plastic kits against resin update sets and also provides additional items such as rear hull ammo boxes and travel locks that the resin sets don¡¦t, not to mention the other extra bits in the kit..."
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- Terry Ashley
"The 251 Drilling kit's options are a very impressive, with numerous sprues of extras included to give the modeller a choice of going with straight plastic parts or the more challenging etched metal offerings - for example the delicate brass seat springs.
The complex anti-aircraft gun is a model in itself, surrounded with the impressively thin three-sided gun shield. I also was pleased to see all of the decal options available, including a complete license plate choice, corrected instrument panel, tactical markings from 18 different panzer divisions, and the large selection of vehicle numbers (which will be a welcome addition to any modeller's spare decal bank).
The molding and detail of the smaller pieces is crisp and ejector pin marks are well placed. With six figures included, etched metal parts and DML's new E-Z track links, this is another "out of the box" build for the modeller."
- Gary Edmundson
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