Review: Battlefront Gepard (TGBX07)

So, next up for my West Germans are the Gepards. 

Photo from wikipedia.com

History:
The Flugabwehrkanonenpanzer Gepard or Flakpanzer Gepard was a self propelled anti aircraft vehicle developed in the 1960s and fielded for decades from the 1970s by the Bundeswehr. The Gepard (Cheetah) was based on the Leopard 1 hull but boasted 2 x 35mm cannons. The vehicles is fitted with a search radar at the rear and a radar and laser finder at the front of the vehicle.

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Review:
The box from Battlefront (TGBX07) contains two models and a unit card. These are resin/metal models with a slight twist. Instead of metal tracks, the tracks are actually resin. The pack contains enough for 2 vehicles. Each model is made up of a hull, 2 tracks, a turret, 2 auto-cannons, a radar dish and receiver. The turret recess is modeled for magnets but there are none included. There is also no decals.

Box Cover.

The models are very well sculpted. I only ran into trouble when I was cleaning a little flash off a track and chipped a piece off. This was easily fixed with a little super glue but you will need to be more careful than normal.

Standard packaging and unit card.

The good news is that this is a very sexy model. Just like the real thing, it is a very good looking vehicle and Battlefront have done well to bring this to the table. It has very few pieces and the assembly is straight forward. The tracks in my pack took quite a bit of work to fit. I needed to file each of them and chip off resin over fill in a few places. These are not huge issues and I am very happy with how they looked after assembly.

Box contents.

Overall, I am really happy with these. I have been looking forward to putting mine together and I wasn't disappointed. I look forward to getting some paint on these.

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