Gunze/Early Dragon origin of some Cyber Hobby kits?

Thanks much. Bought a Stug III E to try them out. They've also got a PzIII E/F. There's also a recent DML Smart Kit for that one. I read a part count for the new one at 600 + Magic Tracks: that's a lot for a small buggy. Course with DML you never really know how many parts are needed. We'll see how the Stug works out - I need a couple more early war AFVs.

Generally speaking, if the kit is a German subject and was issued by Dragon in the old "Imperial Series" (numbered in the 9000's), then it's very likely to be based on a Gunze original tooling.

These kits include:

PzIII family (including Stug.III's)

PzIV family (inc Stug.IV's)

Panther family (Inc Jadgpanther)

The Gunze kits were little gems in their time, coming with styrene, PE and cast metal parts, and often MK tracks. When Dragon bought the moulds, the cast metal and PE was replaced with styrene parts and the MK tracks replaced with (then) newly tooled styrene indies.

Dragon also did a similar thing with their 1/48 aircraft range, the FW-190 family, Me-262 and He-162 kits and others which escape me, coming from TriMaster moulds.

Not sure i understand your question. Yes there are many Orange-box budget deals. I have the siG-33 that comes with magic tracks and some troops.

The Night-Fighting Panther G Late was an ex-Gunze mold, that was simplified with styrene parts in place of the white metal and other misc parts. I think the Early jagdpanther was also, as perhaps some of the Imperial line, but am unsure of that.