French AUF 1 SPH!

[kirin]

Follow by my review on the MENG's 1/35 AMX 30B, I believe a lot of modellers out there willbe more interested on MENG's coming up French 155mm SPH AUF1.

If you miss and cant fing my previous review, here you go...

z12.invisionfree.com/ScaleModelsMal...showtopic=10025

The box art. This round MENG give you a better card box.

:lol:

The usual design of their intruction manual.


Painting Guide at the back of this manual, as usual.


Basically the part A, B, C, F, G, T and lower hull is the same with their previous AMX-30B

Part A x 2


Part B x 5



Part C



Part F



Part G



Part T the transparent sprue and the poly cap for wheels



And lower hull



What you have just seen the common part of both kits.

Personally I love this kit very much, cuase they give you a lot of detail for this SPH plus some extra shell on part M.



Well, what are the others part that is different?

Part H



This mostly the main part for the turret wall and barrel.
Same goes to Part J and K.





Part L the detail for the interior.


And the Part N for some varient on the hull which make a little bit different with the AMX 30B


Take a closer look at the Decal


They give you decal for IFOR, but what is missing??? yeah, you got it right. They dont have the painting and decal pictures for the IFOR.

Let's move on and take a closer look on the two fret of PE they provided.

This piece of PE are mostly the grill for the interior and hull.

This part is what I like the most,
The painting mask!!!


This make your work easier when you wanna paint the road wheel and track. I wonder why they dont provide in the previous kit, marketing strategy?

Thats all for the photos of the parts.
Hope you will enjoy this rare subject! :lol:

[kirin]

For Pro and Cons, there are a few...

PROs

1. A rare subject for a model kit. Despite the very old Heller which cant compare on the amount of detail you get.

2. Individual link track. Those who like to buy after market track to replace the 'rubber band' track will definately love this kit.

3. The detail of the interior, I personally love it very much, not really 100% detail but the detail is just right and enough to be viewed from their small open hatchs.

CONs

1. As I mentioned above, a few parts are 'sharing' with their previous AMX 30B, thus will have the same 'CONs' with their previous kit.

2. A lot of sink hole. Well, just another extra putty work

3. The plastic is a bit soft

4. The barrel and shell, which is form by putting left and right parts together, will be an extra putty and sanding work.

Thats the few that I can point out. Thanks for viewing and the most important,
Happy Modelling!