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NEWS of 2 modern vehicles by Trumpeter
Hisham
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Posted: Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 08:37 AM UTC
Saw these on another site. Thought some of you might be interested.

http://www.track-link.net/forum/news_industry/13970

http://www.track-link.net/forum/news_industry/13971

I apologise if they've been shown here before.

Hisham
Sudzonic
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Posted: Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 09:28 AM UTC
PLEASE PLEASE tell me there going to realise those two..........
Burik
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Posted: Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 09:42 AM UTC
That truck looks like the FMTV. I knew I included photos of that truck in my new book for some reason.

Bob

GaryKato
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Posted: Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 09:44 AM UTC
The Centauro would be great!
SHERMAN2
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Posted: Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 03:48 PM UTC
This is good news. Something new in modern US trucks anyhow. Conversion to tractor and 3 axle 5 ton. Could take years to build a few variants. To bad they didn't do the 5 tonner. Still wishing for a M1070, Mk 48, or Mk 23.

Stewart and Steven 2 1/2 ton M1078 FMTV.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/fmtv.htm
http://www.wenzlau.com/documents/M1078A11.pdf





Joe
Yoni_Lev
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Posted: Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 04:00 PM UTC
Wow...could it really be a M1078 FMTV?

Pretty please?

Thanks for posting those links, Hisham.

-YL
CombatKrieg
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Posted: Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 07:05 PM UTC
Would love for them to come up with more Modern Vehicles though.
redleg12
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Posted: Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 11:43 PM UTC
Outstanding....its about time

Now the problem is when are they due to come out????

Rounds Complete!!
allycat
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Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008 - 01:08 AM UTC
Is that the truck that Seb43 just made from scratch as a SF mother vehicle?
Tom
Sudzonic
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Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008 - 08:16 AM UTC

Quoted Text

The Centauro would be great!
To rite only other 1 i have seen is in resin.
jphillips
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Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008 - 08:38 AM UTC
At last, a Centauro! I wrote to Italeri once, telling them that they should produce a Centauro (they're Italians after all), but I guess they weren't interested. Trumpeter seems to do kits of modern vehicles no one else will touch, and we should all be thankful for that. Unfortunately, they sometimes announce these vehicles, then make us wait a year for them while they pump out more overdone paper panzers. Hurry, Trumpeter, and roll out that Centauro!
Sudzonic
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Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008 - 08:46 AM UTC

Quoted Text

At last, a Centauro! I wrote to Italeri once, telling them that they should produce a Centauro (they're Italians after all), but I guess they weren't interested. Trumpeter seems to do kits of modern vehicles no one else will touch, and we should all be thankful for that. Unfortunately, they sometimes announce these vehicles, then make us wait a year for them while they pump out more overdone paper panzers. Hurry, Trumpeter, and roll out that Centauro!
Amen
seb43
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Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008 - 08:49 AM UTC
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

a M1078, really it is not a joke ???

I gonna buy a lot of these ones to extend my Mothership collection.

release date, release date ????
Copyright Track-link



Did you see the box art also ?


COOL COOL
Sudzonic
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Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008 - 09:14 AM UTC

Quoted Text

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

a M1078, really it is not a joke ???

I gonna buy a lot of these ones to extend my Mothership collection.

release date, release date ????
Copyright Track-link



Did you see the box art also ?


COOL COOL
I was having the same idea seb
Hisham
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Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008 - 09:37 AM UTC
Let's pray this news is true and these kits become a reality within the foreseeable future!
DeskJockey
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Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008 - 04:53 PM UTC
Yes!!! I'd love to see both of these come out soon, even though I paid about $45 for a vacu-formed Steyr truck to convert into an LMTV when my skills improve. Woohoo!!!
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