135
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 06:29 PM UTC
Many (with sufficient house space) have bought Trumpeter's excellent kit of the German BR52 in 1/35th scale. However, good as the kit is, it still needs some additional touches. The AM manufacturers Eduard have announced no less than FOUR new update sets for this incredible kit...
The first (for the interior) is:

35877 - BR52 w/Steifrahmentender interior Consists of no less than 3 PE sheets.

The next, covers exterior detail for both the locomotive and its tender:

35890 - BR52 w/Steifrahmentender exterior Again, three sheets of PE.

The third is for the exterior fenders and additional details:

35891 - BR52 w/Steifrahmentender floor plate

The fourth and final sheet, again concerns itself with the exterior, particularly the prominent smoke deflectors:

35897 - BR52 w/Steifrahmentender smoke

Images of all these new sheets applied to the BR52, can be seen at the side. The sets are scheduled for release in June 2006.

To see these and the hundreds (thousands?) of Eduard's sets and full-kits, visit the Company Website (HOTLINK)

Click Star to Rate
No one has rated this yet.
Get a daily email with links to all our latest news, reviews, and features.

Comments

Too often brass sets are made that really are useless. You have to cut stuff away or discard perfectly good parts to use them. I think some guys just do this for that slight edge in competition. I'll admit, I'm not a perfectionist and usually in 35th scale all I want are screens and someties fenders so I can bend them up to show wear and tear. If I have to use a 5X magnifying glass to see little brass parts detail, it ain't worh the effort to me. . To me, 4 sets of brass is excessive. However, the locomtive interior set absoluely blows me away. It gives the appearance of vastly upgrading the detail in this area. The BR52 is #2 on my wish list, I would purchase the interior detail set to go with it.
MAY 16, 2006 - 09:44 PM
Having built this kit OOB, the interior set looks particularly nice with a lot of added things that the kit didn't include at all. The prime benefit on the exterior sets is the post-war sheet metal deflectors and of course sectioned treadplate walkways, but mostly boils down to preference on whether the molded detail or brass is the preferred display choice. Not a whole lot of "missing' detail for the exterior as opposed to replacement, the exception being the rear lamps for the tender. It's nice to see AM stuff catching up to this kit though, now you can easily spend over $200 USD to build it if you are so inclined. :-)
MAY 17, 2006 - 03:05 AM
Jim, thank you very much, I was kind of hedging on building this, to see what kind of update, accessories set eventually came out. Once again, thank you Armorama Hedda Hoppers for me not having to search for stuff cause you guys are looking out for us !!! And a tad off topic .... Thank you very much wbill76, the smoke deflectors are a "POST" WWII addition. I had asked / mentioned this quite awhile ago after buying the TankWorkshop loco, which is where I first read about this [ instructions ] and alot of people didn't know what I was talking about - can we get some closure on this ? Cheyenne
MAY 17, 2006 - 04:36 AM
Cheyenne, My comment on the post-war deflectors deals only with the sheet-metal type. There's some debate as to whether or not the wooden type that are provided in the kit were fitted to all, some, or none of the BR52s in the war period. See link below for BR52s in service in 1985 with the sheet metal fitted for example. LINK
MAY 17, 2006 - 06:30 AM
The biggest problem with the interior stuff is hardly anything at all can be seen once everything is buttoned up! And the roof is too poor of a fit to leave off. Some of the other stuff may be useful.
MAY 17, 2006 - 07:45 AM
Hi, I believe this is the correct link to the BR50 pictures page: LINK Many more nice pics on different engines: Startpage --> LINK Tks for all comments here, helps to determine what is sensible and what not, depending on own preference... Much appreciated!
SEP 08, 2008 - 08:03 AM
I'm going to get this kit the BR 52 locomotive with the PE extras an paint everything German grey an add some railway flatbed cars with stuff on them.If I can do a railway gun also being pulled by this kit also would be a special an long building experience but would get me back into the hobby again an hope I can finish in time for the rail road campaign.Just hope everything looks accurate enough to be good enough as a lot of master modular's on this site to make them proud to have witness the build progress an hopefully help me make everything accurate as humanly possible with my skill I have now.An come out of this as a better modular with everyones help. Happy modeling William DeCicco
MAY 09, 2011 - 07:49 PM
THIS STORY HAS BEEN READ 14,903 TIMES.
ADVERTISEMENT

Photos
Click image to enlarge
  • p35897_02b
  • p35897_03b
  • p35891_03b
  • p35890_09b
  • p35890_06b
  • p35877_06b
  • p35877_04b
  • p35877_03b
Eduard ReviewsMORE
PE set for the ‘Wolf’ W.M.I.K In-Box Review
by Darren Baker
Sunflowers Built Review
by Andy Brazier | of 2 ratings, 100% found this helpful
Wild flowers/Butterflies In-Box Review
by Andy Brazier | of 3 ratings, 100% found this helpful
Grapevine In-Box Review
by Darren Baker | of 2 ratings, 100% found this helpful
IDF Merkava Mk IV Armour In-Box Review
by Darren Baker
IDF Merkava Mk IV basket 36166 In-Box Review
by Darren Baker | of 1 ratings, 100% found this helpful
IDF Merkava Mk IV detail set In-Box Review
by Darren Baker | of 1 ratings, 100% found this helpful
Leopard 1A5 upgrade set In-Box Review
by Darren Baker
German WWII radios In-Box Review
by Darren Baker | of 2 ratings, 100% found this helpful
Camouflage netting US 1940-'60 In-Box Review
by Andy Brazier | of 2 ratings, 100% found this helpful
Leaves Fern/colour In-Box Review
by Andy Brazier | of 6 ratings, 100% found this helpful
Eduard PE for Opel Blitz In-Box Review
by Karel K. | of 2 ratings, 100% found this helpful
Wehrmacht Radio Equipment In-Box Review
by Dave O'Meara | of 11 ratings, 100% found this helpful
Leopard 2A6M Slat Armour In-Box Review
by Jason Bobrowich | of 7 ratings, 100% found this helpful
LVT-2 Amtrac Sets In-Box Review
by Robert Card | of 3 ratings, 100% found this helpful

ADVERTISEMENT