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Takom new 1/35 kits:T29E3 Heavy &T30/34 Heavy
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Posted: Sunday, November 20, 2016 - 08:27 PM UTC
Paul Owen over on Track link just posted these announcements

http://www.track-link.com/forums/news_industry/32447

http://www.track-link.com/forums/news_industry/32446

This is crazy!!!
Me109G
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Posted: Sunday, November 20, 2016 - 08:39 PM UTC
Now these are awesome!!
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Posted: Sunday, November 20, 2016 - 08:40 PM UTC
Interesting selection from Takom
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Posted: Sunday, November 20, 2016 - 08:54 PM UTC
Aha!! Takom decided to do the US heavy prototypes as opposed to paper panzers. Finally equal time for the crazy American heavies.
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Posted: Sunday, November 20, 2016 - 09:09 PM UTC
Awesome! I will definitely get a T29E3 if they release it before Trumpeter does. I wonder if Takom will ever try to tackle a M103... If they do I'm going to drop my Dragon kit and snatch a Takom one up right away - after they set a definitive release date, of course. Hmm... I wonder if that 155mm barrel I made a design of is marketable...
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Posted: Sunday, November 20, 2016 - 09:15 PM UTC
Bergepanther! Bergepanther!

😝

I will go away now.
ceerosvk
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Posted: Sunday, November 20, 2016 - 09:16 PM UTC
Absolutely thrilled!!! They said 'december' on their FB page. I truly hope this will be in the sale in the upcomming weeks, i really want a nice, prototype kit to build during the long boring christmas family days off!

I think i will get one of these and of the trumpeter series
ericadeane
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Posted: Sunday, November 20, 2016 - 09:22 PM UTC
Well -- there's already the DML T28 and upcoming T95 150mm GMC. And the announced Hobby Boss T29E1 Heavy.
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Posted: Sunday, November 20, 2016 - 09:36 PM UTC
i know but the hobby boss one wont be on sale before january and as for the T28 - i already built the first one from DML
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Posted: Sunday, November 20, 2016 - 09:52 PM UTC

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Well -- there's already the DML T28 and upcoming T95 150mm GMC. And the announced Hobby Boss T29E1 Heavy.


The T28 and T95 are the same vehicle. The "new" 155mm T95 GMC from DML never existed. The T28/95 never mounted a 155mm gun. Only ever a 105mm.
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Posted: Sunday, November 20, 2016 - 11:55 PM UTC
I really like Takom kits, so I'm pretty excited. The artist did a weird job on the T29E3 turret though. The T30 will be nice though, as what I primarily want is a "vanilla" T29 and T30.
TankManNick
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Posted: Monday, November 21, 2016 - 12:11 AM UTC
This is really cool!

(But I still want to build my Amusing Hobby Conqueror first! Still waiting....)
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Posted: Monday, November 21, 2016 - 01:06 AM UTC

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i know but the hobby boss one wont be on sale before january and as for the T28 - i already built the first one from DML


I built one too, and I won't be putting myself through that again. . .
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Posted: Monday, November 21, 2016 - 02:12 AM UTC

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I really like Takom kits, so I'm pretty excited. The artist did a weird job on the T29E3 turret though. The T30 will be nice though, as what I primarily want is a "vanilla" T29 and T30.


Hi Roy, THANKS for the "Heads-UP", and Hi to Mikey, Matt, Steve, and everyone else!!!

I AGREE with Mikey!

Just a little bit of "FYI", intended for those who might not have known:

For those that want an "experimental" (fictitious "what-if"-types of WOT 1946 to whenever?" or actual developmental-type WWII and post-war scenarios), US Heavy Tank which mounts/mounted a 155mm Main Gun, need look no further than the T30. The US T34 Heavy Tank mounted a 120mm Main Gun... Just sayin'...

TAKOM seems to be marketing an already questionable T29E3 (see Matt's post regarding the artist's rendition of the T29E3's Turret) and their T30/T34 "2-in-1" kit, so it remains to be seen how close they actually come in replicating the real articles in 1/35 scale. Mikey's 155mm Barrel just MIGHT come in very handy as a marketable item!

Even though TAKOM has earned a really good reputation for making some of the best plastic kits on the market today, I urge caution on everyone's parts before making any assumptive statements regarding these two new TAKOM kits until we actually see what comes in their respective boxes...

I personally will refrain from making any overly enthusiastic remarks concerning these two new kits until I actually see their parts and/or read "in-box" and "progressive-build" reviews of these models...
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Posted: Monday, November 21, 2016 - 03:15 AM UTC
noooooo... I have no space nor time for 1/35 heavies... GIVE ME 1/72 plastic...
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Posted: Monday, November 21, 2016 - 03:20 AM UTC
I'm happy for everyone who likes the heavies. Glad to see this sort of thing coming out. I just wish the M8 HMC got this kind of love, but it isn't an attention getter on WOT.
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Posted: Monday, November 21, 2016 - 06:32 AM UTC
I'm happy to have alternatives and I have been generally happy with Takom kits to date. Now I just need an ARL44 JS-6 in plastic and I'm pretty much done with what is on my 1/35 wish list!
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Posted: Monday, November 21, 2016 - 03:36 PM UTC

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I'm happy for everyone who likes the heavies. Glad to see this sort of thing coming out. I just wish the M8 HMC got this kind of love, but it isn't an attention getter on WOT.


Hi, Russ!!!

I would have posted the same thing you just did regarding a new 1/35 M8 HMC, but many readers would have been VERY QUICK in shutting me down; for example, THESE two (paraphrased, because it isn't worth my time to find the EXACT posts), undeserved comments that were leveled at me in the recent past:

"Oh shut up already, Dennis!!!" and,

"There goes Dennis again with his US/Allied WWII crap!!!"

Perhaps an "all-new state-of-the-art" 1/35 M8 WOULD be an "attention getter", if one of the model manufacturers had the stones to actually release one. That old TAMIYA FROG of an M8 HMC is RIFE with inaccuracies and mistakes...

I'll refrain from mentioning OTHER 1/35 WWII US/Allied AFVs and Soft-skinned Vehicles for the same reasons! But it's OK for the manufacturers to pump out Tiger I after Tiger I in 1/35 scale, AD NAUSEAM... Not to offend anyone, but I care NOT ONE IOTA for what that WOT crowd wants. THOSE ARE MY opinions, and I DO have the right to express them.. If you don't like it, TOO BAD!!!

'Nuff said...
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Posted: Monday, November 21, 2016 - 07:25 PM UTC

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TAKOM seems to be marketing an already questionable T29E3 (see Matt's post regarding the artist's rendition of the T29E3's Turret) and their T30/T34 "2-in-1" kit, so it remains to be seen how close they actually come in replicating the real articles in 1/35 scale. Mikey's 155mm Barrel just MIGHT come in very handy as a marketable item!



If we are basing the quality of the kit off the slightly screwed up box art, we are hitting a new low here.

As for accuracy concerns...if you know some of the people who work for Takom and follow them on Facebook, you'll know that they have had access to the real deal at Benning, which should help with accuracy concerns. I know Trumpeter has been working on their T29 for a long time now and I'm not sure how good their research team has been with actually seeing one in real life vs basing it all off photos and tech drawings.
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Posted: Monday, November 21, 2016 - 08:14 PM UTC
Not basing it on the art, personally, its just bad art. However, my sniffing around is I don't think they've had access at Benning. Its closed off and a quick check yesterday indicates nobody has been visiting them. I sent Merit/Trumpeter my 400+ photos and measurements back when I found out they were working on it, heaven knows how it translates into the actual kit!
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Posted: Monday, November 21, 2016 - 08:18 PM UTC

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Not basing it on the art, personally, its just bad art. However, my sniffing around is I don't think they've had access at Benning. Its closed off and a quick check yesterday indicates nobody has been visiting them.


They where there last year...
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Posted: Monday, November 21, 2016 - 09:24 PM UTC
Based on the price of other Takom kits, what price range do you suspect these kits will carry if they come to market?
mmeier
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Posted: Monday, November 21, 2016 - 09:38 PM UTC
Those sound interesting for quite a few reasons:

+ Not WW2 german
+ Not a Sherman, M1 or other "done to dead" post WW2 thingy
+ Not yet available in plastic
+ Used in a novel I am just reading to I do have ideas

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Posted: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 - 12:19 AM UTC

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Not basing it on the art, personally, its just bad art. However, my sniffing around is I don't think they've had access at Benning. Its closed off and a quick check yesterday indicates nobody has been visiting them. I sent Merit/Trumpeter my 400+ photos and measurements back when I found out they were working on it, heaven knows how it translates into the actual kit!


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