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David J. Salvin gives us his thoughts on the 1/700 Dragon German Z-39 Destroyer in this in-box review.
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German Z-39 (1:700)goldenpony
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Posted: Sunday, April 01, 2012 - 02:12 AM UTC
Biggles2
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Posted: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 - 08:10 AM UTC
A lot of ship model manufacturers omit rigging diagrams and the modeller is on his own there. In the case of the Z39, German destroyers shared a lot of commonalities. A quick Google image search will provide drawings and photos, maybe not of Z39 in particular, but of the other similar types, and use those rigging styles as a guidelne. If there are no references available for the Z39 it becomes a moot point, as who can say what is 100% right or not?
warreni
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Posted: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 07:03 AM UTC
Just one thing, the manufacturer of the model is not Dragon USA. Dragon USA are just a distributor in the USA for kits manufactured by Dragon.
And I must be doing something wrong as I can't find many diagrams online of the Z Series of destroyers...
And I must be doing something wrong as I can't find many diagrams online of the Z Series of destroyers...