Plastic kit 1:35 Nashorn Sd.Kfz. 164 from Border Model — the German tank destroyer with the huge 8.8 cm PaK 43 gun in an open superstructure. The package offers a full interior, photo-etch, a metal gun barrel and figures.
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An injection-molded plastic kit of the German tank destroyer Nashorn (Sd.Kfz. 164) from Border Model — a modern manufacturer that in a few years has built a reputation as a brand with crisp detail and generous equipment in the box. This kit bears that out: a full interior (the gun breech, the ammunition stowage, the floor of the fighting compartment), photo-etched sheet, a turned metal gun barrel, metal shell cases, link & length tracks (assembled links combined with longer straight runs — not rubber bands) and four figures. Optional parts let you build the early as well as the command version, and the hatches can be assembled open. One caution: Border Model instructions tend to be less clear — it pays to study them in advance.
The Nashorn, meaning rhinoceros, was in essence an enormous gun on wheels. The Germans took the anti-tank 8.8 cm PaK 43/1 with its very long barrel and set it on a light chassis put together from Panzer III and IV components. The gun could destroy practically any Allied tank at enormous range — long before the enemy could answer effectively.
But that firepower had a price: the vehicle could carry almost no armor. The superstructure was open at the top and protected only by a thin shield (in the order of a few to a few tens of millimeters) — enough against splinters and infantry fire, nothing more. The crew was vulnerable to artillery fire from above and to snipers. The Nashorn therefore had to fire from long range and change position at once. It would not have survived a close-range fight — and that is the whole point of the machine: reach and mobility instead of armor. The vehicle was originally called Hornisse, meaning hornet, and was renamed Nashorn at the beginning of 1944. Just under five hundred were built and they served from 1943 until the end of the war.
An open superstructure means that you can see inside — paint and weather the interior before you close up the fighting compartment, because later you will not get in there. An ideal candidate for a diorama: figures, scattered ammunition, worn surfaces and traces of the crew at work. Finish the running gear before you close up the hull. Base coat over a primer, German dark yellow with a three-color camouflage by airbrush. Inside the fighting compartment it pays to pick out the edges with wear and to use a dark wash. Dust pigments on the running gear and the bottom of the superstructure.
The model is supplied unassembled and unpainted. Glue, paints and accessories are not included in the package, unless stated otherwise.
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