Sightings during the LHS rounds today (AFV CLub, Trumpeter, Dragon)

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Did my weekly rounds of the local hobby shops here in Osaka today, and ran across these kits:

  1. 1/35 Dragon Early Tiger I. I think this kit was released overseas before it came out here, but we finally got it! “Nice” just doesn’t describe it. Pretty cheap, too…only $26 USD.

  2. 1/35 AFV Club Tiger I Late version. This one’s “nice,” too! Going for $28 USD. Is this out overseas yet?

  3. 1/35 Trumpeter Ariete. Very nice, and the only one I took home. At $20 USD, how could I resist?
    Super-sharp moldings, and I’m glad to see Trumpeter’s engineering is improving. A very detailed kit!

The “German” T-34 from Dragon is out here, too, but I think it’s been out everyone for a while now.

And there’s the LHS report from Osaka, Japan! [:)]

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There’s some neat stuff there, Brian. I’ve seen the German T-34 on the shelf here. I bet that AFV Club Tiger is sweet. I haven’t seen it yet.

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Brian, the only one of those that is out in the States, so far, is the German T-34. Unless the DML Tiger you are talking about is the Initial Production 3 in 1 kit, which has been released in VERY limited quantities over here. The “main” shipment is supposed to hit next week.

Looking forward to seeing the AFV kit. Supposed to be a pretty fantastic kit.

How about posting some pics of the Ariete kit. I haven’t seen anything about that, and no nothing about the real deal, as far as that goes.

Thanks, have a good night over there.

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The ariete is now in stock at Greatmodels.

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Thanks for the update Brian. Now if we could just get our hands on some of these goodies. Semper Fi, mike

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I am curious about the AFV Tiger. Did you get to peek in the box or anything?

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My LHS has the Trumpeter Ariete stock as well as the new Trumpeter early war French Hotchkiss H3 tanks and the German Geschutzwagen. I want to order the AFV Club late Tiger, do you have any pictures of it?

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erik, check out here under AFV club for some pics
http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/newkitnews/newf.htm

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Thanks Jason. I think I need to donate blood to buy the new kits that are coming out.

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Hey, that’s a good idea!

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Yeah, it’s a lot less painful than selling a kidney and safer than rolling crack dealers.