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Premium Edition M4a3 from DML
jimbrae
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Provincia de Lugo, Spain / España
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Posted: Monday, June 23, 2008 - 05:51 AM UTC
Dragon Models have just announced the re-working of their 1/35th scale M4a3 76 (W) within their Premium Edition series. The image-report can be seen:

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!

stoney
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British Columbia, Canada
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Posted: Monday, June 23, 2008 - 08:43 AM UTC
Nice to see the T48 with duckbills in DS. Wonder if they will include the figs from the "battle of the bulge" kit? to much to hope for?
whittman181
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Posted: Monday, June 23, 2008 - 09:17 AM UTC
The DS tracks really make it for me. I'll have to get one maybe two
GeraldOwens
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Posted: Monday, June 23, 2008 - 04:08 PM UTC

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Dragon Models have just announced the re-working of their 1/35th scale M4a3 76 (W) within their Premium Edition series. The image-report can be seen:

Link to Item

If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!



Great! A welcome replacement for the Battle of the Bulge kit, as it will benefit from the revised turret shell parts only found on the "Thunderbolt VII" HVSS Sherman kit.
jimbrae
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Posted: Monday, June 23, 2008 - 10:37 PM UTC
Updated with details of the upgrades and the images of the PE and Decal sheet.
210cav
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Posted: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 12:17 AM UTC
Nice, must have kit for us Sherman nuts.
DJ
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Posted: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 04:38 AM UTC

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Wonder if they will include the figs from the "battle of the bulge" kit? to much to hope for?


I hope so. It would be even better if they were upgraded to Gen 2 standards. Given the box art and description, it doesn't seem likely, though.

Overall, however, it looks like it is going to be a welcome addition to my stash!
exer
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Posted: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 05:00 AM UTC
No figures included. What is annoying is because this kit shares an upper hull mould with the Late M4A2s the upper hull still has the grouser covers moulded in place.

However since I haven't yet built my first BOB Sherman I may pass on this and wait til an even better DML M4A3 arrives
russamotto
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Posted: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 08:08 PM UTC
It wouldn't take much now to make a late model M4A3 75 Marine/Pacific version. They have the sprues for the turret in the M4A2 kit they just released. Of course, then I would want gen 2 Marine tank crews and Marine tank riders and the list goes on and on. I should be happy with what we have been getting lately and this does look like a very nice kit.
210cav
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Posted: Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 06:07 AM UTC
Any ideas on how much she will cost?
PantherF
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Posted: Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 02:33 PM UTC
That is a sweet looking kit.
jphillips
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Posted: Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 02:45 PM UTC
What's a DS track?
sweaver
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Posted: Friday, June 27, 2008 - 06:01 AM UTC
Any idea when it will be released?

Samuel
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Posted: Friday, June 27, 2008 - 06:11 AM UTC
DS is flexible "Dragon Styrene" tracks that you can glue together with regular model cement. One piece, not the indy links.
sweaver
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Posted: Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 03:59 AM UTC

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Any ideas on how much she will cost?


You can get it from Great Models for $39.95.

Samuel
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Posted: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 02:17 PM UTC
I would just like the tracks. Then maybe I will build the Bulge kit i already have.

Jeff
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Posted: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 02:53 PM UTC

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I would just like the tracks. Then maybe I will build the Bulge kit i already have.

Jeff

If you get the new Dragon late Pacific M4A2 Sherman kit, you'll find two sets of DS steel chevron tracks--one with extended end connectors and one without.
210cav
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Posted: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 06:18 AM UTC

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Any ideas on how much she will cost?


You can get it from Great Models for $39.95.

Samuel


Reasonable price
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