Look at this bizarre thing.
http://www.modelpoint.us/s.nl/sc.10/category.-110/it.A/id.1499/.f
What is it? $46.00 seems like an awful lot of pocket change for a resin turret and a missle.
Just found this on the net:
For something that uses the T-62 for the chassis, you would think that it would have more than one missile on the turret. It is still pretty wild looking, but I don’t know about the 46 dollar price tag.
That price seems way too expensive , unless this is a subject for a model you just can’t do without.Personnally prices like that make me smile [:D] when i spend $40-$50 bucks on a Dragon kit with all of the extra goodies already in the box.
I would rather spend the money on a kit that comes with all the goodies, than spending money on a kit and then having to buy a conversion for an additional 40-50 dollars.
An interesting vehicle to be sure though. I love these obscure T-54/55/62/72 conversions.
Particularly interesting because they got manufactured, and even deployed, although apparently it took a while to work the bugs out of the design, and by the time they were finally in units, they were more or less obsolete.
Still, that’s a wacky price for a resin turret. Might be a better subject of that 1/72nd scale Russian kit than buying the Tamiya 62 and then spending another $45 for a turret.
Like the BMP-1, that missile would have additional rounds stored inside the hull and a new one mounted after it was fired. Even a Bradley or ITV had to have the TOW rounds reloaded after firing both missiles.
I’m a big fan of soviet/russian armor so I will probably buy this conversion. To make the kit look even better I’ll add Friul tracks. It’s not a Tiger so the added cost of getting something that isn’t mainstream is worth it to me.