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Hi Paul.

Please see this review from PMMS on the two Challenger II (Iraq 2003 & KFOR Kosovo) from Trumpeter.

http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/reviews/vehicles/trumpeter/tr00323-45.htm

Paul

No. this one, NO.01522

Hi GAOYUE

You are always the lucky one. When will this new Challenger II Enhanced Armour version be released? I am holding back from the Sd.Kfz.7, Bergepanzer IV & Flakpanzer IV hoping that the T-62 and this Challenger II could come early.

Paul

Hehe,This one will release at the end of this year. the Mould is finished.
T-62 late to 2009 August

More amazing kits from Trumpeter. I wait for the new challenger

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Is this a new toolled kit
Is it diferent from the old models

Thanks,

José César

New tool

PLASTIC SLAT ARMOR! Why can't they do that on the stryker models? I'm sure an extra $20 for the plastic slat in a stryker kit would shy knowone away.
Evan

Wonderful
Several kits will come to my stash

Cheers,

José César

In Challenger II We try to made slat armour in plastic, if it succeed, we will do that on the stryker and Leopard 2A6M

GAOYUE while not trying to high jack this thread, has any consideration been given to releasing Trumpeter's earlier challenger kits as an all in one box offer such as was done with the Abrams offerings?

MUM, maybe it's a good idea

If this to be true it will be hard to keep them on the shelves, with reasonable pricing of course


cheers

If you would do this, that would be great!!!

But two whishes: Reworked roaedwheels and reworked turret please. The roadwheels on the KFOR and Iraq Challenger II were still a little off and the turret had a bad fit.

But again: Yes do a Challenger II all in one box kit as you did with the Abrams!

Well, there have been two, and now apparently soon to be three, 1/35th scale Challenger 2 molds from Trumpeter. Most of the rather scathing online reviews are of the first release, which was, quite frankly, a mess. The tooling was not fully completed when they went into production, and there were swirl marks on the right turret side, the scalloped joint reinforcements were missing on the right turret front, the engine deck grills were misproportioned, the hubcap detail was off center, and the inner and outer road wheels were not even the same thickness.
To their credit, Trumpeter went back to the drawing board and drastically revised the kit, fixing the engine deck, turret, and wheels, and added a lot of small detail skipped on the first release. This version was the basis for the Airfix and Hobbycraft boxings, and featured the scalloped side skirts.
Trumpeter themselves added the ROMOR armor package for their "Operation Telic" version of the kit, and added a bulldozer kit for the Kosovo version (along with the side panels for the ROMOR array). When building, be especially careful when mounting the trunnions for the main gun, as they are not very positive in their location, so it's easy to end up with a gun in not quite the right place. These kits can also be built as a "vanilla" Chally with the scalloped side skirts, if you prefer. The kit is not quite as nice as the Tamiya version, but at half the price, it is a very good value for money.
The news here that Trumpeter is going back to redo the vehicle for a late Iraq War Challenger 2 is very welcome, indeed, as Trumpeter has been growing by leaps and bounds in the quality of their toolings, and plastic slat armor would be very impressive, indeed!

I want one - at the very earliest what is the best we can hope for?

Hi GAOYUE on the subject of modern soviet/russian armour when can we expect to see trumpeter release more russian armour in 1/72 scale ie t-62, t-72 series t-80 series and the t-90 along with bmps and bmds, artillery as well as a US Paladin kit

and modern chinese armour would be cool as well

Looking forward to this one.

However, I have not seen any photos of a Challenger 2 with the Enhanced Protection Bar Armour and a dozer blade. Pehaps the the kit could include the ROMAR-A type front armour, and/or the later Chobham add-on armour to allow the latest versions to be modelled.

Interesting photograph Gaoyue. I suppose there were not too many of those in Iraq.

As others have said, perhaps the kit could include extra parts for the front armour.

Yes， the kit could include the front armour and dozer blade

Gaoyue.....as always thank you for keeping us posted with items in the works!

Nice one Gaoyue

About the dozer blade i was lead to believe that one tank per squadron is fitted with a dozer blade but i could be wrong on that??