Trumpeter has just informed about their new HEMTT model, carrying a M901 Launching Station of MIM-104 Patriot SAM System. Coming soon but without date, we can see some interesting photos meanwhile.

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Awesome looking kit. I'm afraid I might have to sell my car to afford one though.

...AND yer house...!!!

No big deal, you'll probably be able to live in the box it comes in.

Which will be all you are able to afford once you pay alimony and child support because the wife left you...

Jay

Very very impressive.
Anyone have an idea of how long this model is?

I don't mean to be rude but google is your friend - trailer: Lenght, 10,24 m; Width, 2,78 m; Height, 1,57 m; tractor - 8,90m.

Trumpeteer said they were going to make a KV-5 to compete with Takom a while back, Where did that go?

You can ask them on their FB page. Seems to be a responsive team behind that one.

I'm a little confused.
Nuremberg Toy Fair 2015 - Prime Portal


And now Trumpeter....

It's called competition. If you notice, Dragon's shelf is empty, it's just an idea so far. Trumpeter looks to be beating them to market with actual plastic. Bring it on Trumpeter!!

Dragon can take their Patriot off the drawing board now and try to mess something else up. I don't think it would be as good as the Trumpeter kit.

I expect Trumpeter's kit will do a lot better job of reproducing the vehicle. Dragon seems to only care about people who watch Marvel's movies with just a skeleton guard for 1/35 scale nowadays.

It's kinda sad that they were once the creme de la creme of 1/35 and slowly they have faded in light of new competition which seems to actually listen to the market. On the other hand its great for us because we get new high quality kits that we want.

Honestly, I expected the Dragon kit to be the Italeri kit with some new parts to make it a tractor and a trailer mad to match the same quality of the kit, so it would have been mediocre at best. I've seen Italeri boxings of Dragon kits, so this isn't much of a stretch.
Trumpeter started for the ground up an looks like they got things right from the start.

Mmmmmmmmmm...Patriot, goooooooood1

How much for this beauty?

I want this and a trumpeter SCUD and display them on different sides of the room with the Patriot aimed at the SCUD!

Come on it wasnt that good the SCUD took out two Patriot for every one launched yes i was there

I hope the release date is soon



Hisham

On FB it says "INBOUND!" And did you see the title? Both the radar and launcher is included.

From FB page:
"Trumpeter&HobbyBoss Fan Club
One box with everything! Trumpeter model is proud to announce our 01022 1/35 M983 HEMTT/M901 Launching Station & AN/MPQ-53 Radar set of MIM-104 Patriot SAM System (PAC-2) is finally ready! Inbound!"

Going tomorrow to my local hobby shop and pre-ordering one!

Seeing Dragon's offering in the range of 110 Euro, this might give us a pointer on the price. What do you think?

Cheers,
Cristian

I think it's going to be pricey!