Ted Hayward brings us more thoughts from the headquarters of AFV Club.



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Thanks!

Mr. Tseung,

Why will you not release any vehicles from Vietnam War as annonced for a while like LVTH6 or M42 Duster??

Intereasting interview Ted. Any more news on the M88?. I would love to see the Vietnam version re released.

Good news for the Allies then on the AVRE front. Don't suppose you could get them interested in doing a few British Trucks and Staff Cars?

That's still an area ripe for exploitation in 1.35 plastic injection.

Anyway good on them, expecially for considering doing interiors for their vehicles. I'll look forward to their 'secret' releases.

Al

I can say that AFV Club has a secret up their sleeves for the very near future: It will be very exciting for German AFV fans!

I really hope its not more ww2 German armour !

They should release the other Stryker variants a bit faster.
And the T-34-85.

Thomas

Thanks again, Ted!

And who wouldn't want a new M-42 Duster, the long-promised LVTH-6, an LVTE (engineer variant with plow), or even a Rome Plow in 35th scale styrene!

Let's hope that they haven't forgotten about us Vietnam-era modelers as well!

And lastly, any of the Israeli Centurion-based infantry carriers or engineer vehicles would be cool, too!

Looking forward to the clear T-34 as well!

Regards and Aloha,

Johnny B.

Anytime AFV club would like to soon release the M-42, the better ! :-) Also, Ted, when you have a sec, ask if they are planing to do that M-37 Skybow was gonna release .

All things considred, i do love the AFV club kits, nothing short of dabulous.

Great news about the stuff they are releasing /about to release. Finally someone makes something else than the X+1 Tiger kit. (And I thought I was through with T-34s... And never thought about Churchills... Darn.)

The interview was a bit disappointing on the other hand. Minimal info on their background, maximal self-promotion, with cheap shots aimed at those nasty mainlanders. I know that they feel the need to constantly repeat how great they are (but we get it, and know it, anyway), and I know they feel a great deal of resentment towards the mainland, but there's practically nothing else in the interview. Yes, trumpeter does have the tendency to hand out some problematic stuff, but c'mon. They make great stuff, too. If you want to keep repeating how awesome you are, you can do it tastefully. Not to mention, this interview was made for people who actually know how good they are. They don't have to constantly say that. They could have said something interesting, instead -like show us how they design models: what stages it goes through.


(Sorry for the rant.)

Thanks for reading. Unfortunately, it seems that the long-awaited Duster kit is to be 'put a back-burner' due to mounting production costs. Sorry to be the messenger.

I do hope to one day soon visit the mainland and give the other side of the story, with a visit to Trumpeter in China.

hi
i would love to see a new lot of scimitars by afv as they have got 80% of the kit
dave

[quote]Unfortunately, it seems that the long-awaited Duster kit is to be 'put a back-burner' due to mounting production costs. Sorry to be the messenger. [/quote|

Thanks for clueing us in, Ted. Glad to not having it hanging in the air one way or the other... Given that many like myself have expressed an interest in a new Duster kit and the fact that with the M-41 kit AFV Club is SOOOO close, this comes as something of a bummer... That being said, I'll keep my fingers crossed that they will one day release the kit (AND the LVT5-E variant as well!).

And who knows, maybe Dragon or Trumpeter will find an interest in Vietnam-era kits and start a series of their "kit-release wars" against each other like we see with German and some Allied subjects... Yeah, keep dreaming, I know...

Thanks again, Ted!

Regards and Aloha,

Johnny B.

PS Any way to get AFV Club to drop the rubber road wheel components (e.g. those supplied in the Centurion kit) in favor of styrene?

Hey, Ted,

Did the AFV Club folks give an indication as to whether we'd ever see a Puma or any of the other Centurion-based engineer or personnel carrier-type vehicles?

Regards and Aloha,

Johnny B.