Just got DML 251C

that's on my wish list..... let us know how the build goes and show us pics!

Sounds cool from everything I have heard, looking forward to seeing one built up.

tanker, if you don't mind me asking the retail on the kit?

Rubber uniforms?

QUOTE: Originally posted by tankergeoff tanker, if you don't mind me asking the retail on the kit?

Got cheap, $22.00. Wife bought for me too.

QUOTE: Originally posted by jthurston Rubber uniforms?

Inside the kit is a jacket and two pair of boots. Made of very soft plastic (rubber??). You can put it on seat or engine deck. Looks like crew took off uniform to go swimming ect. Really nice looking!!

QUOTE: Originally posted by tankergeoff that's on my wish list..... let us know how the build goes and show us pics!

Not really a very bright person. How does one post pics?? I am right now building the AFV 251/9 D. Will be starting the DML kit after.

go to use a free image hosting site.... I use fotopic.net
there are others, photobucket, etc.....

shoot me an email and i'll reply with the process, but its almost 1 am here and my brain went off the timeclock around 11.........

i ordered my 251c after reading your post.... looks too cool

I paid $33.00 at my local hobby store.
This thing is really outstanding. The directions are somewhat confusing.
This is one kit that requires close attention.
I was going to wait for the AFV, but after seeing all the extras, I just had to pick up the Dragon. I forgot to mention you also get 4 engineers and lots of equipment/supplies.

I have one on order at my LHS, I can't wait to get it, if for anything, than just for the extras alone.

I bought mine at my LHS for $33. It's a great kit and the extra parts make the kit a great deal. I agree with Panzerman, the instructions for the different variants are a little confusing. I think a better way would have been inserts that are separate from the main instructions. Similar to what DML and Tamiya have done to show multiple paint and marking schemes. The field jacket in the kit is a fallschirmjager (sp?) tunic. I wonder if any of the parts could be used with other 251 kits, like the Tamiya kit.

I have already out-line the instructions I will be following. I "X" out the parts I will not be following with a blue "High-lighter". I have the old Tamiya 251C, the newer Tamiya 251D, the AFV 251D, and now the DML 251C.

IMO-- Nothing is usable from the OLD Tamiya 251C except maybe the front wheels (thicker then AFV), and the rear seats (different kind).

The 251 by AFV is a "D" and the 251 from DML are "C's". The AFV lower chassy is very complicated. Also be careful cutting from sprue, some parts have attachment points that do not show well on sprew (I cut a few off by accident--not hard to fix but still a PITA). The running gear alone is over 30 pieces and that is only the track part not counting wheels!!!