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Posted: Friday, December 09, 2016 - 04:29 PM UTC

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Holy crap they are doing a Early Production BT-2!


Wonderful news, I'm so excited!!! I knew it would be Hobby Boss that did them, the BT-4 can't be far off, they already have the twin turrets from the T-26. (and if they don't do it, I sure will!) Hopefully they continue all the way through the BT-5 series.

They also announced the Olifant MK-1B, which was not on my list, but I'll get one of those also. Maybe we will see some Centurion variants that AFV Club never did like the MK-13, and maybe even the A-41 (although I hope if they do, they get the tracks correct, I IIRC they were narrower than the later tracks)



The Twin Turret BT-4 is a "fake" and never existed.



Thanks for that Scott, I wasn't aware of that, but DARNIT that was my favorite version! there seems to be some talk about three prototypes built, but what I have been reading is a little confusing, I think maybe due to translation problems with the text. Do you or anyone else,have any information about the possibility of three twin turret prototypes?
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Posted: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 - 07:16 PM UTC

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Holy crap they are doing a Early Production BT-2!


Wonderful news, I'm so excited!!! I knew it would be Hobby Boss that did them, the BT-4 can't be far off, they already have the twin turrets from the T-26. (and if they don't do it, I sure will!) Hopefully they continue all the way through the BT-5 series.

They also announced the Olifant MK-1B, which was not on my list, but I'll get one of those also. Maybe we will see some Centurion variants that AFV Club never did like the MK-13, and maybe even the A-41 (although I hope if they do, they get the tracks correct, I IIRC they were narrower than the later tracks)



The Twin Turret BT-4 is a "fake" and never existed.



Thanks for that Scott, I wasn't aware of that, but DARNIT that was my favorite version! there seems to be some talk about three prototypes built, but what I have been reading is a little confusing, I think maybe due to translation problems with the text. Do you or anyone else,have any information about the possibility of three twin turret prototypes?



No...in the Steve Zaloga's new BT book from Osprey he pretty much says no twin turret BTs ever existed.

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