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September-News from Trumpeter
Gorizont
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Posted: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 - 06:42 PM UTC
Cybermodeler shows an interesting news from Trumpeter:
on the russian/soviet side we have...
- BTR-60PB, with a new turret and 14.5mm machine-gun
(for me it looks like the 30mm gun-version, which also have a 30mm automatic grenade-launcher)
- the long awaited T-64A Mod. 1972
and the 122mm D-30 howitzer.

http://www.cybermodeler.com/news/trumpeter.shtml

Thanks to Cybermodeler for the news!

Karl187
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Posted: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 12:23 AM UTC
Thanks for the info Soeren!

That PB looks like it has the Arzamas BPPU-1 on it- the same one they use on the 80A. If it sports that turret I wonder does the kit include the other upgrades that Arzamas made to the 60PB?

There's a also a link from Hyperscale to a test shot of the BRDM-2 kit on IPMS Phillipines:

http://ipmsphilippines.com/test-shots/trumpeter-135-brdm-2-early/

It looks like a nice kit.
Hisham
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Posted: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 12:40 AM UTC
Thanks for that link, Karl!

It's great that it has an interior.. so that we can build it with all hatches open.. another one for the must-get list

Hisham
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Posted: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 03:59 AM UTC
Hopefully they will continue the interiors included trend with the BTR 70 and 80's.
Dare we hope for a BMP 1-2 with even a partial interior?
SEDimmick
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Posted: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 04:10 AM UTC
Holy S!....$67 bucks for the T-64? What they smoking?

I hope I can get it from Hobby Easy/Lucky Model for under $50 bucks...

SovietBoy22
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Posted: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 04:20 AM UTC
Cant wait for the T-64. I agree a BMP-1/2 would be a treat.
Thanks
Euan
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Posted: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 05:03 AM UTC

Quoted Text

Hopefully they will continue the interiors included trend with the BTR 70 and 80's.
Dare we hope for a BMP 1-2 with even a partial interior?



It would be a sort of miracle having BMP-1 and 2 kits, having some partial interiors of them it would be maybe too much!


I've been waiting for this kit for ages, some great news indeed, thanks for sharing
jaymckagan
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Posted: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 06:51 PM UTC
finally the T64...and a D30 howitzer!It's a good choice, my Skif kit is abandonned!
Spiderfrommars
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Posted: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 07:32 PM UTC
However I hope it won't be as disappointing as the Zvezda T-90 kit

I know, I used to claim that T-90 was a great kit, but I've change my mind. Actually is a decent kit but it has some big inaccuracies

I really hope that Trumpeter T-64 it'll be good and that the kit will be provided with singular track links ( I'm fed up with vinyl tracks!)
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