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MiniArt: T-44 is in Production
CMOT
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Posted: Sunday, February 07, 2016 - 11:04 PM UTC
MiniArt has sent Armorama news on a couple of figure sets and their T-44 with full interior.
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If you have comments or questions please post them here.
Thanks!
jwest21
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Posted: Sunday, February 07, 2016 - 11:15 PM UTC
What's with the German markings shown on PMMS's New Kit News? A Captured What if?
Pedro
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2016 - 12:13 AM UTC
Yes, what if schemes, I guess it broadens the target market for this kit, good for the manufacturer and harms absolutely noone.
Greg
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CMOT
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2016 - 12:43 AM UTC
I know nothing of the T-44, but as they say it went into service in 1944, then one may have been captured.
pgb3476
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2016 - 01:21 AM UTC
The were assigned to units, but were withdrawn before battle. T-34/85s were the replacements.
erichvon
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2016 - 03:08 AM UTC
While the US ammo loading tankers look pretty good they don't seem to be loading ammo rather standing round holding ammo. When DML and Tamiya have done similar crews they've had people passing ammo up, people bending to accept it and someone passing ammo to someone in the turret. That's loading ammo. These don't appear to very much use at all sadly. Epic fail.
Biggles2
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2016 - 04:46 AM UTC
Two of those figures (a seated, and a standing) could possibly be used in an M10 or M36, provided they will fit, maybe with some plastic surgery. 
MrNeil
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2016 - 04:50 AM UTC
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While the US ammo loading tankers look pretty good they don't seem to be loading ammo rather standing round holding ammo. When DML and Tamiya have done similar crews they've had people passing ammo up, people bending to accept it and someone passing ammo to someone in the turret. That's loading ammo. These don't appear to very much use at all sadly. Epic fail.
While I agree they may be 'ammo holding tankers' rather than 'ammo loading tankers' I disagree that they're not any use. I quite often pose a figure or two along with a model for a sense of scale, and these are ideal for that purpose.
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KurtLaughlin
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2016 - 07:40 AM UTC
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Epic fail.
It is not epic as it is quite insignificant.
It is not a "fail", as fail is a verb, not a noun. The English the word you are looking for is failure.
The poses of the four crewman holding ammunition appear to be consistent with the operations of loading ammunition into an AFV:
Must they be identical poses as previous German or Russian sets - just with different uniforms - to be acceptable?
KL
GeraldOwens
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2016 - 09:30 AM UTC
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I know nothing of the T-44, but as they say it went into service in 1944, then one may have been captured.
The first T-44s entered service trials before the war's end, but they were mechanically unready, and the T-34-85 had identical firepower (though less armor), so it was decided not to commit them to combat. The design also represented cutting edge technology by Soviet standards, and there seemed no reason to tip their hand to other countries before the technology was mature.
CMOT
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2016 - 11:48 AM UTC
Thank you for the info Gerald
Cantstopbuyingkits
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2016 - 12:44 PM UTC
The Germans did manage to capture a few T34-85s before the war's end, so it seems perfectly possible they could have captured one of the this tank had it entered service.
Wierdy
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2016 - 03:43 PM UTC
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The Germans did manage to capture a few T34-85s before the war's end, so it seems perfectly possible they could have captured one of the this tank had it entered service.
By no means could those tanks be captured by the Germans. They were on trials thousands of miles away from the frontline. There is a well-known story of an early batch of M26 Pershings deployed to Western Theatre during final stage of operations, but when it comes to the T-44, there is no such story.
Cantstopbuyingkits
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2016 - 05:58 PM UTC
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Quoted TextThe Germans did manage to capture a few T34-85s before the war's end, so it seems perfectly possible they could have captured one of the this tank had it entered service.
By no means could those tanks be captured by the Germans. They were on trials thousands of miles away from the frontline. There is a well-known story of an early batch of M26 Pershings deployed to Western Theatre during final stage of operations, but when it comes to the T-44, there is no such story.
I know that the T-44 was never used in combat IRL, I was talking in a what if scenario where it was accepted into active service.
MCR
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2016 - 07:46 PM UTC
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What's with the German markings shown on PMMS's New Kit News? A Captured What if?
If I understand correctly not "what ifs" but stand ins for Nazi tanks from some Soviet era war movies.
Cantstopbuyingkits
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2016 - 09:02 PM UTC
I think the tank is usually modified with extra metal plates to stand in for one of the nowadays rare Tiger I tanks in films such as Downfall.
Biggles2
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2016 - 09:19 PM UTC
Mini Art will probably produce more T44 kits than the real ones were produced! 
Cantstopbuyingkits
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Posted: Monday, February 08, 2016 - 09:36 PM UTC
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Mini Art will probably produce more T44 kits than the real ones were produced!
Since the Soviets built 1800 T44s in total, I'd have to disagree
bilbobee
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Posted: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 - 01:09 AM UTC
I just think its great miniart went forward with this project T-44, and it opens alot of varients.
ejasonk
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Posted: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 - 03:10 AM UTC
In some early soviet WW2 movies the T-44 has acted as "German tank". I think Miniart's German markings are focusing on that
There will be an T-44M version also. The assembled kit in Nürnberg was a M variant.
There will be an T-44M version also. The assembled kit in Nürnberg was a M variant.
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