I went on a bit of a shopping spree on a Chinese website roughly a month ago and the order finally arrived here today:
My armor stash consists mostly of German WW2 subjects already, so I decided to refrain from buying more of those. Naturally, that didn't really work out too well:
Those two should be some really fun what-if builds. The kits are very straight forward without being oversimplified and they seem to fit together really well.
Next in the box were those two beauties. Both are very competitively priced compared to Dragon's kits of the same vehicles and they also both look like better kits to be honest.
The Pz IV actually looks very similar to a Dragon kit, but with some clever engineering solutions that should make it a bit easier to assemble.
The Panther however really steals the show here. Dragon's Panthers are already nice kits, but the Rye Field kit really steps up the game and improves on the Dragon kit in all regards.
The instructions are a lot better, you get enough assembly options to recreate almost every Panther G ever produced and all the surface details are just as good or better than in the Dragon kit. It even seems to have a very subtle rolled steel texture molded into all the hull plates. To top it all off, you also get a full set of workable tracks in a kit less than half the price of the Dragon Panther Gs.
I've got something special planned for this one when I get around to building it. Yes, it involves turret armor skirts on a Pz IV F1.
And last but not least, this monster of a kit is also finally mine:
This is hands down the best aircraft kit I've ever seen. The surface detail is simply incredible, the cockpit actually gets really close to some resin detail sets and according to the reviews I've read it's an absolute joy to build.