An announcement by Dragon Models has a late T-34 in German service, even mounting an 85mm gun.

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What! Did they run out of panzers to release? So now we can expect to see 20 different production runs of T-34's?

Boring DML !!

Even with the German AFVs there are still a number of subjects that can be had -- ie early panzers. Or maybe even AFVs from Italy, France, either under its flag or having them into as beutes expand the choices. In the end it's still very much a business and I guess what they think will sell counts. Cheers, Tat

The T-34/85 soldiered on into the 1980s. Does this variant have a post-war history, like Korea, Syria, Angola, etc? There were some interesting modifications and paint schemes in those conflicts.

It's a T-34/85. These soldiered on for decades after WWII. As this looks like a straight Russian T-34/85 (and probably should - I doubt that the Germans did a lot of modifications on any of the few they captured late in the war - sooner to get into service if less time spent doing stuff like changing cupolas ...) just painted up, it would surely go on to some post WWII owner and livery had it survived. And the kit surely could stand in for some post-war army.

I would suppose, however, that a post-war T-34/85 would most likely NOT have the all-steel wheels, so maybe those would be skipped for such usage of this kit?

Bob

20 different production runs o the T-34. That would be awesome! I might sound a little like Bubba naming off all the different ways to make/eat shrimp...T-34/100, T-34/122, T-34/57...and the other variants like an Updated SU-122. More more!

Thanks for the update/news. Now regarding the subject: Zzzzzz boo Dragon, Boo... What happened to Dragon's amazing figures? Are they just not focusing on figs anymore at all? Few ad far between at best.. styrene figure market possibilities feel endless to me (WWII,I,cold war,modern, whatever) Here's to hoping for a great Fall 2014 full of new and interesting releases!

So when will they release the Bruckenleger IV ?

Why not just issue decals for N. Korean/Syrian/Egyptian/Polish etc etc. That would give the modelers more options.

Bah, this can hardly be true... What's the point with this, Dragon...? Your ever-the-same vehicle releases seem to be more and more bad jokes during the last years and so are your static ever-the-same-pointing figure releases. It wouldn't hurt if you could take your time in order to look what amazing things all these many other good manufacturers in the world do while you release the 553667883676364788th rendition of the same tanks again and again... Perhaps this might be the ultimate German late T34/85 but I will pass this too cause an incredible amout of amazing and REALLY new kits out there are waiting to join my stash!

this kit is using Panther wheels, yes? The middle wheel seems to be a T-34 wheel..the rest are Panther?

No.

Cheers,

Christophe

Thx