The Trumpeter kit seems to bring -again, as in their T-72 and T-90 kits- more PE than Meng's counterpart, but as in the mentioned kits, I'm not so sure if all that PE parts are really needed or are a shortage in plastic molding capabilities compared to Meng...

Don't misunderstand me, I'm a Trumpeter fan and love their T-72/90's kits, but it seems that Meng had been able to mold a lot of details directly on the plastic while Trumpeter forces you to deal with tiny PE parts.

I suspect it isn't a lack of capability rather an appeal to some modeler's belief that PE is always better than plastic, and more PE makes it better still. For evidence of this, simply look at the gigantic PE sets available today.

KL

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I suspect it isn't a lack of capability rather an appeal to some modeler's belief that PE is always better than plastic, and more PE makes it better still. For evidence of this, simply look at the gigantic PE sets available today.

KL

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I think you have a solid point here, Kurt
There IS a trend believing that you must replace every single tiny part of a kit with PE.
A lot of times I felt that the majority of some PE sets parts -not only the big "V" ones, but for me usually happens with them- are redundant, and ended using only a few parts and keeping the kits plastic details insetad.

In this particular case, as said before, Meng's details seemed better to me than Trumpeter's PE counterparts...
Still have to build Meng's T-90A to see if Trumpy's infinite tiny PE discs for the turret anti-radiation armor are worth the effort, just to give another example.