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Posted: Monday, May 23, 2011 - 08:43 PM UTC
Zvezda has a list of new releases for 2011 including 1/35 armor, figures and motorcycles, plus a couple of 1/72 armor kits as well. Check out the news feature for what details we know at this time. All of the kits are under construction and some of the artwork is not yet complete.


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Posted: Monday, May 23, 2011 - 09:34 PM UTC
hi Kent the SU-100 and JS-2 are re-releases as i've got these kits in my stash bought them a few years ago now, the panther D looks interesting is this an all new tooling or will it be a copy of the italeri kit? the figure releases look nice especially the russian medics
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Posted: Monday, May 23, 2011 - 09:35 PM UTC
Hi kent, thanks for the review


As I thought there isn't a T-90 in the list... ....

Anyway I'm quite curious about the Su 100 (Tamiya re-boxed?) and the russian sidecar.

Also the medical staff would be very interesting


Cheers
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Posted: Monday, May 23, 2011 - 09:50 PM UTC
hi Mauro the SU-100 isn't a tamiya tooling it's actually a zvezda tooling which IIRC is a copy of the old italeri kit not 100% sure though.
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Posted: Monday, May 23, 2011 - 10:18 PM UTC
I like the Soviet Recon team with the prisoner and the two Motorcycle sets
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Posted: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 12:26 AM UTC
the recon team looks great, cant wait to get it.
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Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 07:32 AM UTC
The two Soviet figure sets and the fallschirmjagers look tempting; what are there figure kits like quality wise? I am not expecting MiniArt, Dragon or Masterbox, etc. here but would my money be better spent on someing else?
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Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 07:49 AM UTC

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hi Mauro the SU-100 isn't a tamiya tooling it's actually a zvezda tooling which IIRC is a copy of the old italeri kit not 100% sure though.


The Italeri SU-100 was a Zvezda rebox.

Cheers,

Christophe
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Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 08:06 AM UTC
I actually am liking all of the 1/35 projects here. Aside from rereleases, Zvezda's quality seems to be continuously improving and I hope that the new offerings shown here reflect that.
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Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 08:49 AM UTC
Mauro, the release of the T-90 is published on Zvezda´s webpage.
As I know, the release is planned for the 3.rd or 4.th quarter of this year.

We have to wait for it!

.............................

I saved the image of the soviet recon-team and the german prisoner
(I collect the boxarts ).
This is an interesting release!
Yes, I also hope, that the new releasses will be better in quality.
I planned to buy an passenger-airliner.

greetings...
Soeren
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Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 09:03 AM UTC
Those figure kits look really interesting expecially the medic kit but I too am concerned about their quality the few kits I have from them were very poor
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Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 09:48 AM UTC

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The Italeri SU-100 was a Zvezda rebox.


thanks for that Christophe i knew it was one or the other wasn't sure which lol just remembered an article in military inscale where i guy had seriously updated the kit he just listed it as Italeri/Zvezda so i thought Italeri had originated it
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Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 10:29 AM UTC

Quoted Text


Quoted Text

hi Mauro the SU-100 isn't a tamiya tooling it's actually a zvezda tooling which IIRC is a copy of the old italeri kit not 100% sure though.


The Italeri SU-100 was a Zvezda rebox.

Cheers,

Christophe




Ok....and was it good?



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Mauro, the release of the T-90 is published on Zvezda´s webpage.
As I know, the release is planned for the 3.rd or 4.th quarter of this year.

We have to wait for it!



Hi Soeren...To be honest I don't trust that Zvezda is going to make it.. As far as I remeber it has announced this kit since a long time ago...

Anyway if they produce it I hope that will be better than Zvezda t72, t 80 and so on
To be honest I was hoping in A trumpeter kit...
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Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 11:08 AM UTC
As per most companies their older figure sets need work . I've got the Soviet DSHK crew from 2009 and they are on par ( IMO ) with MiniArt / MasterBox figures .
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Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 12:03 PM UTC

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Mauro, the release of the T-90 is published on Zvezda´s webpage.
As I know, the release is planned for the 3.rd or 4.th quarter of this year.

We have to wait for it!
greetings...
Soeren


They've had several release dates announced for that kit on their site over tha past 6+ years. I'll believe it when I see test shots.

Matt
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Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 04:41 PM UTC
Thanks guys. They said new issues in the announcement.
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Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 08:22 PM UTC
The figure sets look great especially the recon team -it reminds me of the film "Star" - a brilliant russian ww2 film if you haven't seen it.
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Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 08:44 PM UTC
Wait, doesn't Zvezda mean something along the lines of star?
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Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 10:05 PM UTC
Zvezda is russian for Star Jeremy yes, the company's logo itself is a clue of this

quote< SU-100 better be a new kit!
>quote

sorry to disappoint you brian but no this is the same kit Zvezda released some time ago the detail is ok with a good PE set, Aluminium barrel and tlc it's a good kit, but the vinyl tracks are awful! worse than old tamiya's so a set of afv indy links would be a must also. so when all that is factored in it would probably be best to get dragon's kit, all you need straight from the box
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Posted: Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 07:10 AM UTC
So, DML aside the best Su 100 is still the Tamiya one?

I was thinking to try to improve the zvezda kit...most likely it'll be cheaper than the Tamiya and, of course, than the Dragon kit

But i'll try just if it's worth the payn. If it has huge mistakes I can live without and I can wait to buy the DML kit

However Zvezda kit+ tracks+ aluminium gun barrel...Eventually it wouldn't be so cheap ...


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Posted: Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 09:30 AM UTC
i'd say detail wise and outline the zvezda su-100 beats tamiya's ancient kit hands down plus most of the PE grills available for dragon's kit are easier to adapt to Zvezda rather than tamiya, as we know tamiya's T-34 series kits were designed back in the day when their kits were motorised so updating them is harder though not impossible. i'd say the Zvezda kit is still a good kit, as long as your willing to through some money and time at it.
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Posted: Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 09:47 AM UTC

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i'd say detail wise and outline the zvezda su-100 beats tamiya's ancient kit hands down plus most of the PE grills available for dragon's kit are easier to adapt to Zvezda rather than tamiya, as we know tamiya's T-34 series kits were designed back in the day when their kits were motorised so updating them is harder though not impossible. i'd say the Zvezda kit is still a good kit, as long as your willing to through some money and time at it.


Well Ant, actually I don't mind improving ancient good kits doing a lot of scratch work, especially if they still have a good shape . The only thing that worried me would be the tracks. I can't scratch-it and friul one are quite expensive. I'm not mean at all but spending over 50€ for an ancient kit+tracks it would be quite a waste of money

Anyway, thanks a lot for the info

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