It’s been a while since I’ve been around here last. My TBM-3 build for the Carrier Aviation GB last year got stopped dead by the rainy season, due to my lack of an indoor airbrushing booth, and then my model shop got turned into a guest room for a few months. I don’t want to jump right back in with the Avenger, because I left it at a pretty sensitive part of the build, and I’ve been out of practice for 9 months, so I was thinking about building some sort of Armor. I’m kinda on a budget right now, so I’m trying to limit myself to subjects I can get at my LHS.
They don’t have much in the way of modern armor, but there’s a couple that I’m leaning towards:
either the Tamiya M113A2 or the Tamiya M2A2, both in 1:35 scale. Both kits look to be fairly newish, since they both show CID panels and desert camo on the box art.
Anyway, I couldn’t find reviews for either kit, probably because they’re both fairly old, so I was wondering what people around here thought of them. I’ve built several Tamiya armor kits before, including a Sherman and a couple Abrams MBTs, so I know that whichever one I pick it’ll go together fairly easy (the Abrams were practically snap-tite[;)]). But, I also know that the Tamiyas require extensive research to get accurate.