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Zvezda's 1/35 T-90

Jacques

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Posted: Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 10:24 AM UTC

"Cry out to God....But row away from the rocks." I will hope that Zvezda does a new tool and good job on this. They very easily could. But I will wait to see it in the "flesh" before I believe it.

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Posted: Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 10:44 AM UTC

I will wait a good and detailed review too. Zvezda is an interesting company, their kits are very unpredictable, but my expectations are very high for this one.

And I think this is a new mold, not an altered T-72, if it was based on their weird T-72 (I have that kit by the way

) it had been already in the market and several build logs are already written and followed here, don't you think??

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Posted: Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 04:24 PM UTC

I don't know, as long as it's not soo bad, I won't really care. Already reserved one, also reserved a particular squid who's bent on domination of human kind (we all have all sorts of hobbies, right?).

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Posted: Friday, October 21, 2011 - 12:01 AM UTC

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I will wait a good and detailed review too. Zvezda is an interesting company, their kits are very unpredictable, but my expectations are very high for this one.

And I think this is a new mold, not an altered T-72, if it was based on their weird T-72 (I have that kit by the way ) it had been already in the market and several build logs are already written and followed here, don't you think??

I agree they are unpredictable to the extent that moulding of fantastic quality can be present in the same box as some atrocious examples. As a company they have the ability to knock this out of the park and I reckon they will probably give it their best shot. As ever, we'll all have to wait and see.

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Posted: Friday, October 21, 2011 - 08:49 AM UTC

I suppose it depends on if Mr. Putin is looking over their shoulder and what he would prefer...accurate or Propaganda?

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Posted: Friday, October 21, 2011 - 09:12 AM UTC

Have a look on their new mold 1/72 Mi-24 and their 1/48 La-5 and Bf-109 F-2.

If the T-90 is in the same league, we will receive an excellent and highly accurate kit.

Thomas

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Posted: Friday, October 21, 2011 - 11:31 PM UTC

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Have a look on their new mold 1/72 Mi-24 and their 1/48 La-5 and Bf-109 F-2.

If the T-90 is in the same league, we will receive an excellent and highly accurate kit.

Thomas

Indeed, their recent 1/35 figure releases also suggest that.

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Posted: Monday, October 24, 2011 - 03:42 AM UTC

According to their website, they did a test shot of the mold recently...

bring your favorite translator program!

http://www.zvezda.org.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=37&start=100

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Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - 03:05 AM UTC

first photos:
http://www.zvezda.org.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&p=4671#p4670

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Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - 03:18 AM UTC

It seems to be acceptable detailwise. My only comment is that those side-skirts look strange. They are made of rubber on the real one and they are not that flat and hard.

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Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - 03:23 AM UTC

...Well...it looks like a new tool. Regarding the skirt it would be a minor flaw

What about the dimensions? Of course nobody can tell now

I'm still crossing my fingers, but it seems that will we have FINALLY a T-90 kit....

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Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - 03:49 AM UTC

I concure Mauro, it does seem to be new tooling. At least it would be a HEAVY rework of the DML kit, and why do that much work instead of a new tooling? I am a bit more optimistic now.

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Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - 04:20 AM UTC

Well Jacques...just to be even more optimistic

These holes on the engine deck are for PE grills arent't they?

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Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - 04:32 AM UTC

This is looking real good. Been a long time coming thats for sure!

There is no PE on the test shots anywhere- I'm hoping they will do the grilles Mauro mentioned and some other stuff too.

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Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - 04:33 AM UTC

I wonder why there is two different colors of styrene? Or they are styrene??

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Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - 04:40 AM UTC

The model is not ready yet.
That's what the manufacturer wrote:
"We look forward to three weeks. Model 100 percent new. Nothing from nowhere copied (meaning Dragon). Immediately tell - this is not final. Moreover, this is the first, incomplete casting. I hope soon we collect is normal, just reported."

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Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - 04:48 AM UTC

Woha, looks pretty good! I´m so curious how the SHTORA jammers will look in plastic??

OMG If you look closely they even positioned the engine deck off to the left, as no manufacturer or aftermarket supplier did so far! KUDOS!

All the best,
Andreas

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Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - 04:53 AM UTC

Damn sign me up for one...it looks really nice...and far cheaper then the Miniarm T-90 M2004 I already have

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Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - 04:59 AM UTC

Bought...

O.K. plus maybe new fuel drums and barrel from AM.

Thomas

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Posted: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 - 05:06 AM UTC

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My only comment is that those side-skirts look strange. They are made of rubber on the real one and they are not that flat and hard.

I agree with that.

They are looking like unrealistic, very fresh, just left the factory, if you understand what I mean (not just for that kit but a lot of kits in the market) , but it is an acceptable flaw, it can be easily altered on the bench..

And I think Zvezda is watching customer comments right now with those photos...