Check it out…http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/newkitnews/academy.htm!!
Academy will be releasing the M50 Ontos in 1/35 scale![:D][:D] However the release date is very vague, all it says is “coming in 2009/2010.” Nevertheless I’m excited by this news and I’m sure as heck getting this kit.
OK, this and AFV Club’s Churchill AVRE are now two “must haves” of the new releases AFVs announced so far over the past few months.
BTW, what is the other thing, the Swedish CV9040?
Definitely going to make many of the post-WW2 armor fans happy! The Ontos is properly named…what an ugly-looking beast…so strange it’s beautiful! [(-D] Academy has been known to be very loose with their release dates…I remember it took about a full year from the announcement before they released their M3 Lee…so the 2009/2010 designation is probably not far off the mark in that regard.
well I now can see me doing a couple of the Ontos tracks. I found out awhile back that the Army as well as the Marines used them, but only Marines used them in combat. Now if we can get them to do an M56 Scorpion!
gary
No doubt!
The “THING” lives again!
I WANT!!!
(ok, I’m better now)
Ranger Joe, Defender of Bunnies
Built one of those ugly-azz things about 20-25 years ago… I can’t recall the kit manufacturer though… Revell, perhaps? Seems I recall it was an oddball scale too…
Hans, it was probably the 1/32nd scale Revell kit. There’s one on eBay:
Revell reissued the old Renwal kit in 1982-83. The Renwal kit dates back to the late 50s-early 60s. I’ve built one of each and the only difference is Revell molded over the original Renwal logo and added their own Revell 1982(or 83) to the same area. I sanded mine off so I don’t remember the exact date, but I bought it my freshman year in college (which was the 82-83 school year).
I had the Renwal model of the Ontos and it would be exciting to build one again. I hope they improve the gun carriage as the Renwal version keep dropping down. I remember the zombie-like figures it included.
That’s the one, Hann-man… Thanks… Looking at the rest of that guy’s stuff, I see a bunch I built back in the early days, those Life-Like Arty kits, for instance…
Yeah, pretty cool stuff. How about that 1/40th scale stuff? I didn’t even know it existed until seeing that.
Yeah, been there, done that…
thers one parked near me, and it’s got two different 106mm guns mounted on it! Barrels and breech handles)
gary
I WANT IT. My grandpa worked for Allis-Chalmers Mfg. and I believe they had a contract to make some of the sub assemblies for that “thing”. Heard a wild rumor about the model a few years ago. Seems some guy had one and Academy photo’d and measured the thing but nothing was ever said about when the kit might show up. Glad to see it coming.
If I remember right the Ontos was actually built by Cadillac Div. of G.M. in Cleveland Ohio. The drive train is very similar to a typical bulldozer, and the tracks are actually stamped steel! The transmission was an oddball one that less than 300 were built (many were just spares). The M56 was also another oddball drive train and veryfew were actually built (less than 300). But I think we (as modelers) need these two tracks in our inventory as they both saw combat.
gary