Kit tips for the beginner?

TRY THE wALKER m41 OR THE pZKW II, A VERY EASY BUILD AND NOT EXPENSIVE $11 BUCKS LOCALLY. 1/72 SCALE WOULD BE GOOD ALSO, LOTS TO CHOOSE FROM, STAY AWAY FROM THE eASTER eUROPEAN MAKES, BAD FIT AND THEY TURN INTO A PUTTY TANK.

For your first shot at amor lean towards a Tamiya kit. Very well engineered making the fit exellent. Dragon makes excellent kits too but the indy tracks will drive you batty. Try Tamiya's T-34's, Shermans, or Panthers....all excellent first tries.

After years of aircraft modeling, you know all the basic stuff on how to put a model together. My advice it to really study the directions so you can paint in sub-assemblies. A Panther's interleaved wheels are a good example of dificult to paint on the model. For ease of assemblly, simple paint coat, i would go with the Tamiya Stug III. Great kit to start out of the box. Good luck Bill

I recommend Tamiya kits for the ease with which they go together. Their older kits while not 100 % accurate are inexpensive, cover a variety of vehicles and most hobby shops carry them. I have many of the older kits in my collection and like to detail them as I get better at modeling. If you don't mind spending extra money, by all means invest in the new Tamiya kits. You won't be disappointed.

See the "Weekend armour project: suggestions" thread, there's a lot of good suggestions there.

Revell's 1/72 Pz IV .. Not expensive, not too many parts, highly detailed, first step with multi-part tracks. Can be done over a week end! Excellent kit, great subject with lots of info available, even on the net.