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AFV Club: Another Pesky Wiesel
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Posted: Friday, December 19, 2014 - 07:18 AM UTC


A post from AFV Club has another variant of the little pesky German Wiesel heading our way.

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Posted: Friday, December 19, 2014 - 09:46 AM UTC
I've always liked this little tank (tankette?), maybe this will be the kit I buy
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Posted: Friday, December 19, 2014 - 11:59 AM UTC
To be precise, here in germany we call it a Luftlandewaffenträger which means Airborne Weapons Carrier.
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Posted: Friday, December 19, 2014 - 03:25 PM UTC
Am i wrong if this version looks close to the Wiesel used in Afghanistan?
Same tracks no?

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Posted: Friday, December 19, 2014 - 05:49 PM UTC
Just hope AFV changed their over stiff PE parts!
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Posted: Saturday, December 20, 2014 - 02:47 AM UTC
Olivier, I was thinking the same thing (the PE on the original Wiesels and Scimitars/Scorpions was a PITA), but if you look at this review, it seems the PE is now brass, not steel as before.

http://www.armorama.co.uk/review/10822

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Christophe
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Posted: Saturday, December 20, 2014 - 06:49 PM UTC

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Just hope AFV changed their over stiff PE parts!


And did they move the fold lines to the OTHER side of the part?

It has been a LONG while since I built both mine, but I seem to remember that the folding lines on the muffler covers were on the outside and being steel, when I went to refold them back the correct way it snapped.

The Afghan versions w the new tracks are interesting, I might have to take another swing at one of these.

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