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Armor/AFV: IDF [Israeli Defense Forces]
Armor and AFVs of the IDF army from 1947-today.
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Hobbyboss Merkava IV on company website
Orangebarrelman
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Joined: October 31, 2009
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Posted: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - 05:44 AM UTC
http://www.hobbyboss.com/82429.htm

Here is finally proof the kit exists!
spetsnazgru
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Lebanon
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Posted: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - 10:50 AM UTC
wow, finaly, thanks for posting.
Tojo72
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Posted: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - 01:26 PM UTC
Wait till Matan See's this !!
junglejim
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Posted: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - 05:31 PM UTC
Oo, Oo! Can I start the nit-picking?
(based on the CAD pic), it looks like they are making the same mistake as Legend (coincidence or not...) and making the mount for the .50 cal wrong. It looks like they tried to combine a Mk.III and IV mount. It should look like this:





Gotta get rid of that disk thingy and make a simple bar mount. The disk can be seen mounted by itself - a thread protector on some kind perhaps?

Jim
vonHengest
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Posted: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - 07:06 PM UTC
I'm not worried about minor things that are relatively easy to fix. I will be happy with this kit as long as it is overall highly accurate. Will be interesting to see how it compares to the Academy and Legend kits.
Red4
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Posted: Friday, October 01, 2010 - 02:53 AM UTC
oooo, Daddy likes! Projected release date? "Q"
Orangebarrelman
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Posted: Friday, October 01, 2010 - 05:53 AM UTC
By the end of the year. When Hobbyboss updates thier site the releases are about 3 months out for the newest releases (Merk, EF-111 etc). The Trumpy site lists releases by month and as of now they have the November releases listed, and they were posted within days of the latest HB update. Remember two sides of the same coin there.

December/January could be an expensive month if both this and the Academy LIC variant both show at the same time (going by the amount of time it'll take to get across the Pacific to distributors)
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