How Good (Or Bad) is the Italeri Elefant????

As a build it is not bad for it's age, but it does suffer innaccuracies and is a little basic in detail. The superstructure hatches are incorrectly sited and wrong shape, the tracks need every second guidehorn removed, etc.

I compared my 20 year old build to a friends new DML offer, built OOB, at a club display last year. To the casusal eye, people could not see the differences until pointed out (although I had cut off the guidehorns). Depends on how much you want an accurate model - if just for fun, go with what you have.

For an older kit , it's not bad. I have built it , straight out of the box , and I was satisfied with the results . However , there is room for improvement, typhical , of many older kits. Don't scrap it ! Build it and have fun!
Frank
" PERSEVERANCE"

I've got the Dragon kit and it looks impressive. Lots of parts. I hear the indy tracks are incorrect. You can substitute Jaguar tracks for it.

I put my comments over in the other forum...

Enjoy your modeling...

THanks for the help guys. I will probabbly just build it OOB and do a dragon someday.

I had to go check my stashed builds, I thought I had built that kit back some years ago? I found it and it doesn't look like a bad build. I guess I should go back and finish it though. I would say build it. Mines strictly out of the box but I like it. Semper Fi, mike

This will be a good one for me to practice my Zim on. It's been a long time sice I have done any and I need to follow old Mo's class on zim. Or as I like to refer to him: the Zim Master, or the Zimsai

As per the comments above, it will build into a good model. Definitely has issues, but if you're allready planing on getting all the AM parts for it, just go ahead, and at least save yourself the money of buying a new kit.