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Posted: Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 04:37 AM UTC
Doc dios takes a look in the box at Academy's new M113A3 "Iraq 2003" model kit, will he be impressed with what he finds?



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JustAnotherModeler
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Posted: Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 04:41 PM UTC
Any good PE for this or AM?
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Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 10:26 PM UTC
Did not mention the Tracks.
Are they any good or a set Of AFV club needed or gosh do I say Friul.
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Posted: Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 11:31 PM UTC
Hi Jeff

you get a choice of tracks in the kit either rubber band or single links both are adequate, although the singles do have sink marks on them which need to be filled.

I would replace them with Model kastern ones, but that is a personal preference of mine, you can still build a decent M113A3 out of the kit, and it need less work than the Tamiya one.
You will still need to do some modification on the kit to produce a good M113A3, but the work is easy to do, with a some good references, and shouldn't tax any body really.

HTH

Keith
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