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Posted: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 11:26 AM UTC
From Star Decals (not related to them, just giving a heads-up)

Star-Decals 35-920_01 by johanlexell, on Flickr
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Posted: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 04:04 PM UTC
Hmm, is the Trumpeter JS-3M any good? Ever since I saw the pictures of the real one I was hoping someone would put out decals for it.

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Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 01:12 AM UTC
Yes, the Trumpy IS-3m is very decent. It's an older kit, but on par with the Tamiya IS-3. Pretty much a copy of the Tamiya kit, with all the changes to make it a IS-3m. You will need to upgrade the tracks from the rubber band style included in the kit.

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Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 01:35 AM UTC
I concur, the old TRumpeter kit is quite good.

Very tempted to do that one too, I gather the fuel drums are not standard at least different from kit ones?

Cheers,

Christophe
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Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 04:25 AM UTC

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Very tempted to do that one too, I gather the fuel drums are not standard at least different from kit ones?



They are, they look like single piece units.

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Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 07:17 AM UTC
I think you can safely say they are after market...lol
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Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 08:46 AM UTC
Here's a couple more of the JS-3M. Note the interesting MG shield. I would have expected to find tons of Trump JS-3M's on eBay, but there's only 1 or 2...






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Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 09:44 AM UTC
What I don't recall now is if the Trumpeter kit comes with the reinforced/wider wheel's hubs -accurate for a M model- or if it brings the "Tamiya-ish" ones, right only for the earlier versions of the JS3...
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Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 10:03 AM UTC

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What I don't recall now is if the Trumpeter kit comes with the reinforced/wider wheel's hubs -accurate for a M model- or if it brings the "Tamiya-ish" ones, right only for the earlier versions of the JS3...


It's got a different wheel type for sure, I was going to use them for a modernized JS-2.

Cheers,

Christophe
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