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Posted: Saturday, February 08, 2014 - 02:34 AM UTC
It is looking like some old favorites and some new items are coming from Italeri this year.

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Thanks!
russamotto
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Posted: Saturday, February 08, 2014 - 03:44 AM UTC
LCVP with 30 figures. Could be very interesting depending on how the figures turn out, but I do appreciate the effort they are making. I remember the old airborne set. Built it many years ago.
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Posted: Saturday, February 08, 2014 - 03:47 AM UTC

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It is looking like some old favorites and some new items are coming from Italeri this year.

Link to Item

If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!


HI! Thanks for the heads up! Re: The 1/35 D-Day LCVP kit with U.S. Infantry and Crew- does anyone know if the figures will be plastic or resin, home grown or supplied by different manufacturer..
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Posted: Saturday, February 08, 2014 - 05:51 AM UTC
Disappointed that there is no sign of the X Craft and whilst I appreciate the troops on board the LCVP I would much have preferred a new LCA. The ambulance jeep is an old but useful kit.

Still some new USN and RN figures that might be useful.

Cheers

Al
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Posted: Saturday, February 08, 2014 - 05:59 AM UTC
Did anyone notice that the FT-17 has beeen deleted from the release list?
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Posted: Saturday, February 08, 2014 - 06:37 AM UTC

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Did anyone notice that the FT-17 has beeen deleted from the release list?


I forgot that they were supposed to release that (last year)! I guess with Meng and Takom's gorgeous kits they decided against it.
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Posted: Saturday, February 08, 2014 - 10:47 AM UTC
1/35 LMV Lince! Hope to see it soon!
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Posted: Saturday, February 08, 2014 - 11:21 AM UTC
Ambitious! Really hope that LCVP kit and especially the figures turn out well.
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Posted: Saturday, February 08, 2014 - 01:46 PM UTC
I'm waiting on the Lince too. In fact, if I remember correctly Italeri had announced it for a 2013 release. Better late than never though...
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Posted: Saturday, February 08, 2014 - 09:54 PM UTC
LCVP will be good but I'm still hoping for a 1/35 Brit. LCA for my Commandos and Rangers....!!!!!!!!!! Surely a manufacturer can do one for the D-Day anniversary..?
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Posted: Saturday, February 08, 2014 - 11:00 PM UTC

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Disappointed that there is no sign of the X Craft and whilst I appreciate the troops on board the LCVP I would much have preferred a new LCA. The ambulance jeep is an old but useful kit.

Still some new USN and RN figures that might be useful.

Cheers

Al


Hi, Alan,

Since you are a landing craft specialist, pls., comment this announcement.
Any idea if they will fit in both landing crafts, the small one and the big one?
The photo suggests that, since they announce 10 persons, there will be a possibilty to change them in such a way that one can make various poses from this set.
Why otherwise show a photo of a craft with more than 10 soldiers!

http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/newkitnews/italeri.html
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Posted: Saturday, February 08, 2014 - 11:37 PM UTC
One thing which Italeri ARE doing (or have done already) is to rebox models such as their Stug in bigger (more attractive) boxes.

The LCVP does sound interesting but a lot will depend on the figures. If they, as I suspect they have done, signed a deal with Mbox, ICM or MiniArt, then possibly it'll be a batch of useful figures, if they are going alone, i'm not quite so optimistic.

I'm with Alan - where's the bloody X-Craft!!!! A gift for dioramas!!
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Posted: Sunday, February 09, 2014 - 09:59 AM UTC
Looking at Italeri's web site it sounds like they have two LCVP kits one with 30 fig's and one with 10.I have to agree with the comments about getting the figure from another source. The figures for the PT 109 and the British MTB look cool.
The return of the closed cab 2 1/2 ton is welcome news.Noticed it said return nothing about new tooling so I assume it will still have skinny tires.
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Posted: Sunday, February 09, 2014 - 10:26 AM UTC
I have to correct my self on the comment about the two LCVP kits. Kit 6524 is LCVP with 30 figures. Kit 6522 is 10 figures only. This is based on rereading the complete release article on Italeri web site.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 06:19 PM UTC
I am so curious about them US figures in the LCVP Hope some Pictures will be around soon AAND hopefully they have quality. Hope they will not be as the italian paratroopers they released. They were garbage
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Posted: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 03:23 AM UTC
Mostly just a lot of reboxed reboxes of 30+ yr old molds. I'm surprised the molds have lasted this long. Maybe Italeri popped out so many unsold kits they're still trying to get rid of them. A lot of these kits have since been replaced by much better examples by newer model companies. And for the prices they charge for the reboxes, for a few dollars more you can get a much better and accurate model. Their US paras were pretty bad, BTW, even with Hornet heads!
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Posted: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 05:34 AM UTC

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Ambitious! Really hope that LCVP kit and especially the figures turn out well.


Been waiting for YEARS to build an LCVP with dedicated GIs cast in hunkered-down poses before hitting the beach! Now I'm hoping that I won't have to convert a bunch of figures to achieve the same results. It's likely that the 30 ITALERI GI figures will require HORNET, ALPINE or even some of my old stock of WARRIORS US heads, but I wind up replacing the heads on the great majority of my MASTER BOX, ICM, MINIART, etc, figures anyway...
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Posted: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 05:49 AM UTC

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Mostly just a lot of reboxed reboxes of 30+ yr old molds. I'm surprised the molds have lasted this long. Maybe Italeri popped out so many unsold kits they're still trying to get rid of them. A lot of these kits have since been replaced by much better examples by newer model companies. And for the prices they charge for the reboxes, for a few dollars more you can get a much better and accurate model. Their US paras were pretty bad, BTW, even with Hornet heads!


Case in point, for a few Euros more, you can get Mirror's excellent CMPs. No more struggling with 30 year-old moulds for me...

Nor am I optimistic on the LCVP with figures - Italeri's track-record has been abysmal.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 05:53 AM UTC

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Mostly just a lot of reboxed reboxes of 30+ yr old molds. I'm surprised the molds have lasted this long. Maybe Italeri popped out so many unsold kits they're still trying to get rid of them. A lot of these kits have since been replaced by much better examples by newer model companies. And for the prices they charge for the reboxes, for a few dollars more you can get a much better and accurate model. Their US paras were pretty bad, BTW, even with Hornet heads!


Didn't ITALERI some time ago make some resin figure sets for their 1/35 80FT Elco PT Boats and their S-100 Boats? I never got any of them, but if memory serves, these resin figures were supposed to be pretty good... Yes, no, maybe? The older 1/35 ITALERI styrene figures were pretty awful...

The 30-year-old ITALERI/TESTORS GMC CCKW kits DID have tires that weren't very accurate, but at least the Frame Assemblies were cast in the correct "I-beam" configuration and ITALERI also included the highly visible separate Drag Link to be installed between the Pitman Arm on the Steering Box and the Left Steering Arm. These two features of the old ITALERI Jimmy kits were not included in the "superior" TAMIYA CCKW 353 kits, and TAMIYA has seen fit NOT to correct these flaws even after all these years... What's up with that?

I haven't bought the HOBBY BOSS GMC CCKW 353 w/40mm Bofors AA gun kit yet, so I don't know if they got it right. Am anticipating their new GMC CCKW 353 Tanker kit- I hope that HOBBY BOSS will follow suit with a regular Jimmy 6x6 Cargo Truck- Include a FULL Canvas Tarp, PLEASE...
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Posted: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 10:47 AM UTC
I don't know, and am doubtful, about resin figs from Italeri, but they have released a couple of so-so crew sets for their S-Boot and Elco's in styrene. There are, however, other companies who do make resin figs suitable for Pacific Theater crews, and U-, and S-Boots.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 12:26 PM UTC
Sherman, the S100 and Elco crews were styrene figures and pretty typical Italeri Figures. Not up to current standards but useful nonetheless.
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