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Academy M151A2 Hardtop
wbill76
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Posted: Friday, February 22, 2008 - 03:16 PM UTC
Andy Renshaw provides an In-Box Review of Academy''s 1/35 M151A2 Hardtop w/ trailer kit #13012.

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GaryKato
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Posted: Friday, February 22, 2008 - 08:31 PM UTC
Great review, Andy!
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Posted: Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 06:12 AM UTC
Very nice review!

I just think that calling it a "new release" is a little misleading. The kit was released in 2003! It's almost five years ago now. It is a "new tooling" compared to ancient Tamiya kits (and their Academy copies), but otherwise it is quite old already

Pawel
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Posted: Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 06:15 AM UTC
Good point Pawel, it's been revised...I didn't catch that the first time around.

On a side note, we are always looking to "fill the gaps" on kits that are still readily available but aren't in our Reviews section, such as this one.
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Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008 - 04:49 AM UTC
Good review! And the timing couldn't be better! Many thanks Andy.

Mike
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Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008 - 05:04 AM UTC
Very nice review Andy.
It's good to see some of the passed over kits getting reviews to fill in the blanks.
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Posted: Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 08:19 AM UTC
Pawel,
Thanks for the critique. I guess I had wrote "new release" as I have not seen it avertised, on vendors tables, nor at the LHS untill recently. To me, it was a new release. I just looked and saw that it was listed in the 2006 VLS catalog. I guess its arival slipped past my radar, which is surprising as jeeps and M151 series are some of my favorite subjects.

Andy
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