It’s a beaut!
http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/reviews/48/tamiya/tam32511.htm
Other news:
Accurate armour is releasing full kits (including decals) for the USMC M103 and the Iraqi “Enigma,” as well as an update kit for the SKIF T-64.
It’s rumored that Skybow is going to release another 1/48th scale tank after the two beautiful Tigers coming – a Sherman Firefly!
HI Larry,
Quick question re: the Hetzer. I know DML used to make a 1/35 Hetzer, do you know of any other company that still makes one? Or where I can pick up a DML version?. Also, what colour are you painting your M1A2’s? (see my thread re: this)
Bismark, Italeri made one and it can still be found at some sites and ebay. Try the onlines like www.greatmodels.com or www.rollmodels.com or www.internethobbies.com for either the Dragon or Italeri.
Anyway, I wish Tamiya would produce a 1/35th Hetzer, I’d be all over it, even at their prices.
Thanks Tigerman. I tried Greatmodels but I will try the others. Thanks again.
One more insignificant 1/48 release. No interest whatsoever. But a nice, new 1/35 kit would be welcome.
Insignificant? No interest whatsoever? Then why did you even bother posting, Zok?
Well, your opinion is duly noted and respected! [:D]
Eduard, by the way, is releasing a 1/35 Hetzer with full interior for those of you with no interest in insignificant 1/48 releases (an opinion which I fully respect, by the way!).
I’m REAL interested in that AA M-103, in any scale! I’m sure that as an AA kit, it’ll cost about 200 bucks or so…
[sigh]
Well, this forum isn’t here for the exclusive purpose of pleasing you. I posted this for the people who would be interested.
Or should I respond to every post of news that I’m not interested in similar fashion – “I don’t like this – I wish they’d make something I like?”
And at this point every 48th scale kit that comes out greatly expands the number of 48th kits available. Another 35th scale kit is a drop in the bucket. So a 48th scale kit’s release is a lot more likely to be significant than a 35th.
Me too – what a monster. It’s going to be killer expensive though. Also, it will probably require a lot of work to free the pieces from the resin – not hard, because these kits are extremely well-made, just time consuming, because they also are very complicated.
I treated myself to the Sho’t from '67-'73 for Christmas, because I never get anything I want for Christmas, [:(], and I’m extremely impressed by it but it looks like just huge amounts of time to free the pieces, even though they are very well made and the connector points are thin and crisp.
This is good news. I was struggling with my old 1/48 ex-Bandai Fuman Hetzer last night. A new 1/48 scale Hetzer was truly needed.
As far as petty comments from the rank and file, why post if you don’t have anything pertinent to say?
Whether or not you embrace 1/48 scale, it looks like an excellent kit. Personally, I find the new 1/48 scale Armor kits exciting, but I don’t have a large investment in 1/35 scale kits, being mostly dedicated to Aircraft modelling.
Regards, Rick
Really? It’s not? Geez, now what WAS I thinking! All this time I thought it was meant EXACTLY for that.
Either way, I guess I should have been more elaborate in my opinions, so here goes:
Thank you for posting the review.
I generally don’t go for 1/48 armour, but it’s fun to read about the reviews nonetheless.
I believe it to be insignificant because regardless of the relative lack of 1/48 armour, there also seems to be a relative lack of INTEREST for 1/48 armour.
Is that clear and elaborate enough?
I can completely concede and agree to the point that my last post was not the most productive action taken today. However, I find the sudden flamming a little premature. It’s not like I’ve never posted on this forum before, so if your sensitivities were injurred, you could have taken the high road and asked for clarification, instead of immediately striking the post down
Comments like these are JUST as stupid as the one I made. Clearly you are no higher above the “rank and file” if your immediate reaction is that of belittlement. I really does aggrivate me when someone else takes such a high view of themselves.
FYI, this is a public forum, thus if you expect all comments to have direct relevance to the topic at hand, you’d probably be better off looking somewhere else. If you chose to stick directly to relevance, more power to you. Most people on this forum, myself included, have come to know you that way, and it’s great, because you always have a direct, relevant, and informative answer. However, a large part of traffic on this forum is simple chatting back and forth.
Most of you who replied to this post have been here a while, and should know better than to immediately flame a post.
On that note, I too have been here a while and should have thought about my comments a little more before typing in the brief stupidity that I did.
I’ve heard Tamiya has 50 armor related kits in 1/48 scale planned (from a Japanese interview with Mr Tamiya). So that’s good news to my ears.
Precisely why I posted what I did, in the manner that I did! You and I have both been here quite a while, and I said the same thing to you that I would say to any friend who said something surprisingly negative.
And don’t forget, I also said:
No flaming intended, Zok. Just an honest response to your comments. [:)]
And now, back to our regularly scheduled modelling:
Larry, is that M-103 in 1/48 or 1/35?
You heard correctly! Supposedly 20 in 2005 alone. Very ambitious!
Come on, M4A1!!
(And this coming from a guy who originally wasn’t too thrilled with this whole new 1/48 thing![;)])
For many modelers, the release of a Hetzer is welcome news indeed. However, I’m afraid that I have to take some of the more recent PMMS reviews with a BIG grain of salt after reading their review of the 1/48 M4 Sherman and then seeing one up close and personal. I do not know if the reviewer of these kits is a novice, intermediate, or advanced AFV modeler, but if the oversights that were missed in the Sherman review continue with the newer reviews, I wouldn’t trust them quite that much.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by zokissima
Not to get into an argument with you over this, but I do stand by what I said. I’d say it to your face and I reiterate that it was not pertinent to the discussion at hand. I don’t think of myself as any higher than anyone else who utilizes this forum. Never have, never will.
Your post, to use your chatting analogy, is akin to several folks standing around having a face to face chat and then someone joining in and telling us our conversation is insignificant and that they have “no interest whatsoever” in what we are discussing.
If that scenario happened in a conversation you were having, what would your reaction be? Perhaps a visual look of belittlement at the offender before you turned away and continued your discussion with the people who were interested? Or perhaps a few verbal suggestions as to where that individual could go?
I never said your remark was stupid, nor did I imply that it was. I stated that it was petty (which it was), not pertinent (again, true) and implied that it was rude. The fact that it aggravated you indicates that my remarks had their desired effect.
Your opinion that 1/48 scale armor is insignificant is not stupid. You may be right, only time (and the market) will tell. I do know that a 1/48 scale Bandai Tiger sold on eBay would more than pay for the brand new Dragon 3 in 1 Tiger kit. In 20 years one of these kits may be valuable or it may be a dime a dozen.
The news that the 1/48 scale Hetzer interested me since I have been working on the Bandai one for a while. The kit was issued in the 70s and is getting a little long in the tooth. It is, however, still the only Hetzer that comes with a fairly complete interior to include driver controls, gun breech, engine, transmission and drive train. The news lets me know that the new Tamiya kit is on the shelves and I may be able to get a new one instead of working on a 30 year old one.
Foster, would you give more details as to what you think is wrong with the Sherman? I’ve read the reviews on PMMS, Hyperscale, and Track48, all which had good things to say in general. That’s not to say its a perfect kit, but overall a good kit.
The problem here is that you are stating sarcastically what the content of your first message essentially said factually.
If you understood and accepted that this forum is for people other than yourself, you’d not opine that the news and the kits it’s related to are “insignificant.”
It’d be like my posting in response to news of a new M-60 kit, “I think this news is meaningless because I already have one built up.” Factually true, perhaps, but what would you think of someone who chose to respond in that fashion to the news? I’ll wager that you’d think he’s acting a bit selfishly, and you’d be right.
Awesome! I’d love to see them tackle subjects like the Nashorn, the Archer, the panzer I (imagine how tiny THAT would be), the IS-II …
It’s in 35th. It’ll be real interesting to see it up against the M1, or to pose it opposite an IS-III or a T-10M, its opposite number.
I still remember my little Rocco minitank of the M103 from when I was a kid, which I thought just had to be the last word in huge, awesome-looking tanks.
The Sherman guys can always point out some inaccuracies – fact is, I think this is true of any model of any vehicle – but from what I’ve heard from the wonks on Missing Lynx, the kit, though not perfect of course, is actually better than most 35th scale Shermans.