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Italeri SPG Trackset
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Posted: Monday, April 08, 2013 - 10:41 AM UTC
A new track set is coming from Italeri, and these should help get your American SPG moving.

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Posted: Monday, April 08, 2013 - 12:19 PM UTC
Very interesting. They look the same as the Riich model T136 tracks. Maybe a rebox?
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 04:33 AM UTC
Nope, they are not the same as the Riich ones. I examined the Italeri set at my LHS yesterday. The Riich tracks have nice slide molded details on end connector faces and are 100% indi links. Italeri tracks have smooth and featureless end connectors and are link and length type! I wonder what was the point of making workable connections for individual links and then provide most of the track as solid "length" pieces?...
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 11:46 AM UTC
Hmm, that is weird. Another set of tracks not to get. I'll stick with either teh Riich Model or AFV Club T136 tracks.
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 01:50 PM UTC
Pawel, sounds like the Kinetic ones. Given Italeri's history of reboxing Kinetic kits I bet that's what they are. The boxtop would then seem misleading...

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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 02:40 PM UTC
Could italeri be making a M992 Hopefully someone is coming out with one soon.
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 02:51 PM UTC

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Could italeri be making a M992?


I doubt it. I would put my money on Kinetic, if anyone.
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Posted: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 08:27 PM UTC

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Pawel, sounds like the Kinetic ones.

Nope. The Kinetic ones have more conventional construction: solid track links with separate individual end connectors. The only common feature with these Italeri tracks are "length" sections, otherwise they are different. So this is completely new, Italeri's own tooling. And now we have T136 tracks available from Riich, AFV Club (ex-Skybow), Kinetic and Italeri...

Italeri (image from http://www.model-making.eu):



Kinetic (image from http://www.missing-lynx.com):



Riich (Armorama's own image):
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