Trumpy T-72B turret (left)

I don't understand all this furor over the kit being mild upgrade of T-72B but not K-5 equipped T-72B itself. You want to build 1989 T-72B out of this kit when it comes out? Then all you need is OMSH pattern T-72 tracks, get rid of kit's wind sensor mast and T-90 style exhaust, that's all there is to it. Taking things off and filling the gaps is a lot easier than scratch building missing stuff.

I think all you have to do to back date the Trumpeter kit to an T-72B 1989 (also referred to as the T-72BM) is remove the wind sensor mast on the turret, replace the kits radiator exhaust flaps with rounded corners with ones having squared corners and maybe replace the road wheels.

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I think all you have to do to back date the Trumpeter kit to an T-72B 1989 (also referred to as the T-72BM) is remove the wind sensor mast on the turret, replace the kits radiator exhaust flaps with rounded corners with ones having squared corners and maybe replace the road wheels.

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IIRC, the wheels are the same. What I'm aiming at are the tracks because T-72B and T-72B Mod 1989 have RmSH tracks while the kit has newer UmSH tracks which replaced the older ones in the 90s. Now, Trumpeter offers sets of RmSH tracks (workable and non-workable), but I don't see any mention of drive sprockets being included and I suppose these tracks won't fir on sprockets which came with the kit?

I wonder why did Trumpeter release these sets before having any kits which use them..