Accurate Armour focuses on Great Britain’s armoured forces, but occasionally they do other vehicles too, and recently they revealed that they were doing an update set for the Skif T-64B. I was surprised to read that, and wondered why.
Is the T-64B even in service any more? And is this kit such a good host for detailing that Accurate chose it as the base for detailing parts? What do you guys think is the deal with this?
Maybe they have a design team with nothing to do? Maybe they are broadening their horizons to do russian stuff
Highly doubtful.
AA has been talking about this detail set since last year. I hope they get it out soon. I don’t think the T-64 is still in service with the russian army but the Skif kit does need some help. Unfortunately the tracks are awful (mine are too short to fit on the model) but A/M tracks aren’t yet available.
Maybe that’s it – no one else has made update/improvement parts for the kit yet. Thanks. It’s too bad they didn’t pick something like the T-80 and give it the Accurate Armour treatment, instead of a tank that looks obscure even compared to the T-62.
The T-64 seems like an obscure subject to invest the time/money in the developement of a update set for it ,the T72/T80 would seem to be more popular subjects.But i aint no authority,and thats no understatement (thought i’d throw that in before someone else did)
The T-72/80 or T-62 updates would have made more sense, and it does seem strange that they’d dedicate effort to a fairly obscure effort, one due to the relative lack of kits, can’t possible generate that much revenue.
They come with rubber-band style tracks? I see that Skif has their own set of indy-link tracks:
http://www.militaryhobbies.ca/product.cfm?ProductID=383
The Skif indy tracks are awful as well. They are just cheap copies of their vinyl tracks. Don’t buy them unless you like a lot of cursing. [:D]