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Trumpeter: Here Comes Another Bear
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 07:39 PM UTC


What-if armor seems to be on the rise again, and it has been a long while since we have seen one from Trumpeter.

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HeavyArty
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 07:45 PM UTC
Great, more paper panzers.
tigerproductions
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 07:46 PM UTC
Why????? have they run out of things to do? These things did not even exist but in paper only. How about some between the wars US Armor, etc.
Tank1812
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 07:49 PM UTC
Harder for modelers to make accuracy issue claims and more importantly to them, it must be making them money.
MLD
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 08:37 PM UTC
Also this release builds on a hull/tracks/running gear they already have tooled, big namey modelers have built/product placement painted them recently, and '46 seems to sell more than between the wars stuff..

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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 10:47 PM UTC
at least it's not ANOTHER Tiger I, II, or....
bige69
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Posted: Thursday, February 09, 2017 - 05:38 AM UTC
If you have to pick one will you pick trumpeter or amusing hobby
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Posted: Thursday, February 09, 2017 - 06:28 AM UTC
Are we at the bottom of the barrel now? Some of the what-if stuff looks decent and seems like natural progression, but this thing looks kind of stupid IMO.
basco
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Posted: Thursday, February 09, 2017 - 04:33 PM UTC
easy to see why this hadn't seen the light of day.
Taeuss
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Posted: Friday, February 10, 2017 - 03:42 AM UTC
0h gee, not another meaningless exercise in goofy overkill projects! How about an armoured V-2 launcher based on a Maus chassis? See what I mean?
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Posted: Friday, February 10, 2017 - 05:01 AM UTC

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easy to see why this hadn't seen the light of day.


It never got beyond the design stage. The Sturmmorser was said to have competed with it, and eventually got built and deployed.
DaGreatQueeg
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Posted: Friday, February 10, 2017 - 01:59 PM UTC
I love watching you guys get wound up too tight about 46 and paper panzers. Chill, it's not your thing so why bother to come in and vent on these news threads? Maybe start an anti paper panzer thread of your own? gather like minds into one place? maybe the Companies will drop in, read and take take notice ....

And it shouldn't be that surprising as both these companies (although particularly Amusing Hobby) release both paper and whiff panzers regularly. At least Trumpeter mixes them in with lots of other "much more wanted" things.
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Posted: Friday, February 10, 2017 - 07:25 PM UTC

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I love watching you guys get wound up too tight about 46 and paper panzers. Chill, it's not your thing so why bother to come in and vent on these news threads? Maybe start an anti paper panzer thread of your own? gather like minds into one place? maybe the Companies will drop in, read and take take notice ....

And it shouldn't be that surprising as both these companies (although particularly Amusing Hobby) release both paper and whiff panzers regularly. At least Trumpeter mixes them in with lots of other "much more wanted" things.


Well said.
Taeuss
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Posted: Friday, February 10, 2017 - 11:54 PM UTC
Probably right, I'll try to contain myself.
SDavies
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Posted: Saturday, February 11, 2017 - 02:16 AM UTC
Interesting kit but i am not into paper panzers.

Taeuss
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Posted: Saturday, February 11, 2017 - 08:09 AM UTC
Don't go there. I agree but they have every right to build whatever they want regardless if it saw the light of day or not.
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