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Dragon News 1/35 IJN Type 4 Ka-Tsu
ninjrk
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Posted: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 03:20 PM UTC
OK, I confess to being fairly jazzed about this release. Here is hoping that they do a decent job with it. . .

Cantstopbuyingkits
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Posted: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 10:53 PM UTC
This was posted as a news story here, like 2 whole months ago
Bodeen
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Posted: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 11:59 PM UTC

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This was posted as a news story here, like 2 whole months ago


Well It's posted again....to be fair I didn't catch the first one....this looks like it's going to be a huge kit!
hetzer44
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Posted: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 12:23 AM UTC
I'm jazzed about this too! And to think there was a torpedo version, so perhaps Dragon will do us a solid and make that version as well.

Cheers1

chuck
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Posted: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 01:04 AM UTC
Considering that the DS tracks on my type 95 broke in several places after a little over 2 months (and they were painted with acrylics), I shudder to think what a set of white metal tracks for this thing would cost.....
SSGToms
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Posted: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 01:54 AM UTC
I was going to scratchbuild this - it's all flat panels - but now I have one ordered. It's big and ugly but I like it.
j76lr
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Posted: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 02:42 AM UTC

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Considering that the DS tracks on my type 95 broke in several places after a little over 2 months (and they were painted with acrylics), I shudder to think what a set of white metal tracks for this thing would cost.....

Ive never had a problem with these tracks !
JSSVIII
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Posted: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 03:07 AM UTC
Not my thing really (no turret), but nice to see something different, what a monster for a Japanese AFV.
TankManNick
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Posted: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 04:30 AM UTC
DS tracks have me 'worried' but Tamiya are worse! Centaur tracks broke on me twice, and one of the tracks on my half-built LeClerc just came apart sitting there unpainted on the chassis...

The couple of DS tracks I have used are OK, and I've checked the ones I have still in the boxes and they are OK. (I've also seen some awfully molded ones in a Panzer III or IV box that I did NOT buy!) The thing that bothers me is having put in the time to make a nice model that one of THE most important parts of a tank might just fall off! Ok I am rambling here.

Hey! Nice to see Dragon doing more Japanese armor! I can get behind THAT at least
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