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For discussions related to cold war era Russo-Soviet armor.
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Georgia, United States
Joined: March 08, 2002
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Posted: Friday, March 28, 2003 - 01:09 AM UTC
From today's London Sun...

I know one of you guys out there can pull this off!
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Hauts-de-Seine, France
Joined: April 11, 2002
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Posted: Friday, March 28, 2003 - 03:11 AM UTC
To be honest, if there was a good enough model of the BMP, I'd build it like this one !

BTW, I've got an hesitation : is this a BMP1 or 2 ?
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Joined: September 13, 2002
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Posted: Friday, March 28, 2003 - 03:19 AM UTC
That's the trouble with BMP's - so many kits, and all of them are out of production. I've got the BMP 2 Afghanistan on pre-order at Great Models for months and months now. Since about the middle of last year
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Posted: Friday, March 28, 2003 - 03:21 AM UTC
It looks like a BMP-1 in the pic. The BMP-1 has the shorter, larger calibre gun, while the BMP-2 has the much longer, smaller cal.
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Minnesota, United States
Joined: March 04, 2003
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Posted: Friday, March 28, 2003 - 05:59 AM UTC
It is a BMP-1...it has the four rear deck doors, rather than just the two. Also, the turret is not the larger BMP-2 turret with the longer barreled gun.

The Esci kit of the BMP-1 is ok, slightly better than DML in my opinion. It builds into a good representation. Here is a link to my build of the BMP-1PG version:

http://members.tripod.com/saammodels/Pictures/mybuilds/bmp1pgbuild/index.htm

overall, I think the kits are good, they just need a company to come out with a good PE set fo rthem...Eduard? The old eduard sets are...dissapointing.
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