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A couple of old kits from East-Germany, this on is a
1928 Dixi. I purchased the kits some time ago on the German Ebay
site. The kits are from MK Modelle (MK=Max Kratzer) and were
manufactured in the seventies by VEB Modell-Konstrukt, Leipzig. VEB
stands for Volkseigener Betrieb (in English: Publicly Owned
Operation). These were often former private companies in the Soviet
occupation zone in 1945 in Germany, the part what in 1949 became the
DDR (German Democratic Repiblic).
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The kits are very basic and made from some strange kind of plastic. The normal automotive grey primer caused some strange effects, but luckily I could use the Tamiya paint, sprayed directly on the plastic without any primer. The 1928 Dixi was anyway a strange kit. No details on the left or right side of the body. No outlines of the doors, nothing. Instead of that you got two separate thick pieces, representing the doors which had to be glued on the body. A very curious solution. Most irritating thing was that the left and right side of the body was not one smooth, slightly curved surface, but both sides were actually divided in three straight sections! Who's crazy idea was that? Anyhow, after a lot of filing and sanding the body got it's correct shape. After adding the outlines of the doors with some very thin Evergreen strip and some details like door hinges and door knobs from the parts box, it looked rather good. The headlamps from the kit were one piece of plastic without any details and were replaced by a pair of chrome headlamps I found in the chrome parts box. The dashboard received some extra details and the front seats were raised as they were waaay to low. All in all simple kit, but building it was a time consuming job because of all the corrections I hade to made. And here is the result. |
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