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What is Horse Glider? Oh maybe i dont wanna know

Guys, this is the modern armor section...

Cheers,

Christophe

Yes, a Sisu XA 180 6x6 would be really nice, but i don't think we will ever see this as a model
Rg-32 Galten
Bgbv 90 arv cv90
A new MT-LB
Leopard 2 A4
Hägglunds Bvs 10 Viking
Hägglunds BV 206 ( that is possible to build)
Newest version of Buffalo mpcv 6x6
All american MRAPS
More modern civilian cars

But it's only a wish list, nothing we will probably never see...

M777A2 155mm howitzer

M119A3 105mm howitzer

(I won't mention the Mk VIII Liberty tank or the Mk V since this is the modern Armor Section)



Chris

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A better Hellcat

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I second that!!! A TOTALLY new M18 would be just the thing!

Apologies to the modern armor fans, but I'm going to open my big yap again!!!

A new M18, and more WWII GI's: A rifle Squad on patrol, a Rifle Squad at rest- Eating, drinking, dozing, smoking and blabbing, and/or cleaning their weapons. A chow line, with GI's in line, the same goes for the Marines. DITTO for WWI Doughboys and Marines! MORE WWII Sailors! I'm NOT including PT-Boat crew or Landing Craft crew, either.

Let's have some WWII Sailors and Marines on Liberty, GI's on Pass or Leave with some of them enjoying themselves with girlfriends, or other "ladies". This subject matter has been IGNORED FOR AGES. Only MASTER BOX has seen fit to do a single set of figures in this genre. Absolutely all of the above goes for US Officers, be they Army, Army Air Forces, Navy, and Marines, for both WWI and WWII.

We could also use a platoon of GI's and/or Marines crouching, squatting or on their knees to go with the 1/35 ITALERI LCVP. The crew that ITALERI supplies are all standing as if on parade. For Christmas SAKE!!! There was all kinds of ordnance flying around, just lusting to kill Americans!!! Don't you think that these invading GI's and/or Marines had the sense to duck?

An entirely new 1/35 WWII US Dodge WC-54 Ambulance- It's definitely time to retire that old PEERLESS MAX/ITALERI/TESTORS/BILEK kit. We could AT THE VERY LEAST, use an up-to-date conversion set, to be used with the excellent SKYBOW/AFV CLUB WC-series kits, but an entirely newly-tooled plastic kit would be much better.

The AFV Club M18 kit could use some re-tooling: Open engine gratings with a complete engine bay, a better interior, especially in the turret, and an entirely new main gun barrel. If no one has the guts to mold an entirely new M18 kit, we could at least use an update set for what I mentioned above. VERLINDEN and LEGEND make resin and PE updates for the ACADEMY M18, and I believe ROYAL MODELS does the same for either of the M18 kits. HOBBY FAN makes a few bits and pieces for the AFV CLUB kit.

STILL, we are lacking a properly CAD designed slide-molded M18. A 1/35 M18 would be a great subject for MENG, or some other progressive thinking model company.

AGAIN, I'm going to bring up the subject of an entirely new M8 75mm Howitzer Motor Carriage. (HMC) WHY are all the model companies IGNORING THIS IMPORTANT VEHICLE?!? AFV CLUB announced that they were going to release a new 1/35 M8 HMC based on their EXCELLENT M5A1some years ago- They NEVER FOLLOWED THROUGH, disappointing many US WWII AFV fans. We could use a new 1/35 M8 HMC, period!

DRAGON keeps re-popping older kits, and their "new" BLACK PLAGUE line of kits have left a lot of modelers cold. It would be nice for DRAGON to pay just as much attention to detail in their US 1/35 subjects, as they do for their endless German Panthers, Tigers, and Sd.Kfz.10's. A glaring example is their line of M3-series Half Tracks. DRAGON seems to be in no way interested in correcting the riveting found all over the body panels of these kits. These rivets should be represented as counter-sunk single-slotted screws, flush to all of the body surfaces. The flattened front tires are also somewhat over-stated. Instead of coming out with "new" oddball vehicles, they should spend some time and money on correcting their older kits...

No one has ever done a line of 1/35 US Army or Marine recruits being "dressed down" by the Drill Instructor, either...

A new MT-LB

LAV UP (new LAV for Canada, bigger than LAV-III)

Jim

This is fun ...and nowadays maybe not so much a pipe dream!

US post WWII:

M-65 Atomic Cannon and Transporters
M-53 spg
M-50 Scorpion plastic
US Army Missile series Honest John, Lacrosse, Pershing, Redstone, Nikes etc
T-29 Series of heavy US tanks
US Air Force series of early missiles like the Mace on Terracruiser...awesome piece
More of the upcoming Russian tracked missile launchers like Frog
( Trumpeter is releasing one I see... they are quickly becoming my favorite company for 1/35 stuff )