AFV Club has a announced a nice offering due in the winter of this year, a Dodge M37B1 CARGO TRUCK 3/4 TON 4X4
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AFV Club: Dodge M37B1
CMOT
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Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 05:14 PM UTC
AFV Club has a announced a nice offering due in the winter of this year, a Dodge M37B1 CARGO TRUCK 3/4 TON 4X4
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If you have comments or questions please post them here.
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C_JACQUEMONT
Joined: October 09, 2004
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Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 05:25 PM UTC
Glad I haven't jumped on the Roden kit...
SgtRam
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Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 05:30 PM UTC
Nice, another hit to the wallet. Thanks for the update.
hazzardm
Joined: May 13, 2010
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Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 05:36 PM UTC
Interestingly about 10 years ago I was shown a SKYBOW sprue for the M37....
Cantstopbuyingkits
Joined: January 28, 2015
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Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 06:02 PM UTC
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Interestingly about 10 years ago I was shown a SKYBOW sprue for the M37....
I believe this is to be a new tooling by AFV Club not based on Skybow parts.
alewar
Joined: December 27, 2006
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Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 06:17 PM UTC
Why not a new WC54 instead?
ericadeane
Joined: October 28, 2002
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Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 06:22 PM UTC
@Timothy: When AFV Club bought out Skybow, I'm sure they got their molds too. Why retool when you can use whatever Skybow had already done?
@Alvaro: why not a WC54? Who knows. But start a new thread. It seems like every single product announcement comes with 50 posts about why X and why not Y.
It doesn't add anything to the discussion. A WC-54 would be definitely welcome. But it requires capital outlay by AFV Club. Could they do it? Sure. Maybe they already are -- certainly they've investigated it since they own the excellent ex-Skybow Dodge molds. But that should be the subject of its own thread, in my opinion. Not veer off any discussion of the M37B1.
@Alvaro: why not a WC54? Who knows. But start a new thread. It seems like every single product announcement comes with 50 posts about why X and why not Y.
It doesn't add anything to the discussion. A WC-54 would be definitely welcome. But it requires capital outlay by AFV Club. Could they do it? Sure. Maybe they already are -- certainly they've investigated it since they own the excellent ex-Skybow Dodge molds. But that should be the subject of its own thread, in my opinion. Not veer off any discussion of the M37B1.
pstansell
Joined: November 10, 2005
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Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 06:37 PM UTC
I swear I saw the Skybow box art for this when I was in the UK several years ago. I was visiting a mutual friend of one of the owners. I guess I wasn't that drunk after all!
BTW, VERY little commonality between the M37 and the wartime Dodges.
Pat
MMiR
BTW, VERY little commonality between the M37 and the wartime Dodges.
Pat
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C_JACQUEMONT
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Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 07:21 PM UTC
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MMiR
Is that magazine still around?
gatorbait
Joined: August 25, 2002
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Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 08:13 PM UTC
I jumped ,no regrets . I will also get one of these too.
Cantstopbuyingkits
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Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 08:21 PM UTC
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MMiR
Is that magazine still around?
That's a very good question, the last issue Ampersand published was in February 2015
JavierDeLuelmo
Joined: February 29, 2016
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Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 08:29 PM UTC
Here is the boxart for the original Skybow offering. It was going to be ref. TP3507 and was even printed/advertised on the sides of other boxes in their range as usually done by some model companies.
rogerjo1
Joined: November 12, 2010
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Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 11:49 PM UTC
coming soon.. Winter... the summer has not even begin yet here.. So lets hope they mean from another part of winter of the world otherwise it's not soon...
jasegreene
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Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 11:56 PM UTC
I agree,I hope it is soon.Also,I remember see the boxart for the original Skybow offering.
armyguy
Joined: December 07, 2012
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Posted: Saturday, April 23, 2016 - 08:03 PM UTC
The next question is who's will be the better kit. Roden's or AFV's. With Rodens you won't have to wait for winter. The after market items for the M-37 should be interesting. Hard top, soft top for the cab, canvas cover for the cargo box.
trickymissfit
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Posted: Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 02:02 AM UTC
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@Timothy: When AFV Club bought out Skybow, I'm sure they got their molds too. Why retool when you can use whatever Skybow had already done?
@Alvaro: why not a WC54? Who knows. But start a new thread. It seems like every single product announcement comes with 50 posts about why X and why not Y.
It doesn't add anything to the discussion. A WC-54 would be definitely welcome. But it requires capital outlay by AFV Club. Could they do it? Sure. Maybe they already are -- certainly they've investigated it since they own the excellent ex-Skybow Dodge molds. But that should be the subject of its own thread, in my opinion. Not veer off any discussion of the M37B1.
One needs to remember that the M37 truck was actually the most common truck in the U.S. military from the very early 1950's till the Humvee. Virtually every company in Vietnam had several, and probably similar in Korea.
The kit was twenty years over due! Not sure which model Roden is doing, and also where AFV's fits in there. Lets hope that one is an early model for Korea, and the other fits the Vietnam era.
Now if we can get AFV to model the M54 truck!!!
gary
armyguy
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Posted: Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 07:16 AM UTC
A couple of post may have gotten off the subject of the release of the M-37.But it's great to see AFV pick up where Skybow left off on the Dodge truck's.
When Skybow started releasing the WC trucks I was also waiting for the release of the WC-54. ( I just had to put that in )
When Skybow started releasing the WC trucks I was also waiting for the release of the WC-54. ( I just had to put that in )
Vodnik
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Posted: Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 11:01 AM UTC
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Lets hope that one is an early model for Korea, and the other fits the Vietnam era.
Both are later B1 version.
dukw
Joined: March 18, 2003
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Posted: Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 01:14 PM UTC
I feel fooled by AFV Club. AFV Club had the chance to release this kit for years. But they didn't. Now, shortly after the release of Roden's kit comes this announcement. What a surprise. This behavior seems to me known from another kit manufacturer. They had to learn their lessons and it looks to me that it is now AFV Club's turn.
That's not the way i like to be treated as costumer. So my money went to Roden. After a quick comparison of some parts like engine or susspension of the M37 from Roden with the WC51/52 from AFV Club i think the dimensions are nearly equal. But to my opinion the parts of the roden M37 are more detailed and "crisper". The tires of the Roden kit seem to by too small in diameter compared to the AFV kit but this need to be checked by measurement. I think i've got a good value for my money.
Happy modelling
Harald
That's not the way i like to be treated as costumer. So my money went to Roden. After a quick comparison of some parts like engine or susspension of the M37 from Roden with the WC51/52 from AFV Club i think the dimensions are nearly equal. But to my opinion the parts of the roden M37 are more detailed and "crisper". The tires of the Roden kit seem to by too small in diameter compared to the AFV kit but this need to be checked by measurement. I think i've got a good value for my money.
Happy modelling
Harald
microjeep
Joined: June 20, 2013
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Posted: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 - 05:04 PM UTC
any new news?
grunt26
Joined: July 23, 2005
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Posted: Saturday, April 08, 2017 - 08:10 AM UTC
April 2017......and no new news on this....nor the other AFV Club Vietnam kits I'm waiting for....
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