Been lucky enough to have a new Taigen PzIV with the V2 electronics to work on for one of our NBRCTC members.
He is the guy that paints incredible figures Ive put up on occasion.
Ive got a mission on to fabricate & fit a set or brass Schurzen to it, whilst making it robust enough to stand the rough outdoors battlefield and not fall apart.
I was going to put this in others, but its not really a build as such, rather a pimp-out.
The tank itself out of the box is crisply detailed.
Tool clamps are sharp, the stowage bin is spot on correct, the mantlet has been corrected, and the entire metal & plastic combo is a very weighty and well built unit.
Down sides are................rear engine deck is still not sloped correctly. Drive sprocket height still not high enough, no track tensioning device fitted, some tools are molded to the hull guards and a quite obvious gap over the barrel in behind the mantlet.
These details aside, it drives well, sounds 100% better than the previous offerings, and is well & truly sturdy.
Ive used brass sheet and cut each one out to suit a later design . The type that use triangle teeth to hang the skirts from.
Brass flat bar and angle to form the actual hanger frames which will be gel super glued AND pinned to the hull.
The straps for each plate are the last to be made................30 of the stuff'n things.
Its been a real privilege to do this for him, this thing is expensive,and he's a real PzIV tragic , so Ive got to get it right.
Hes happy to accept some inaccuracy in exchange for close representation and over all- toughness.
Taigen really have done a top class job on this.
The moulded in idler bracket is a bad idea. Fitting any kind of track tensioner thereafter is going to be a lot of hard work, and grinding. The Asiatam/Taigen adjuster (similar in principle to the Tamiya one) could be fitted; but oh what a pain, eh? 
