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Armor/AFV: Braille Scale
1/72 and 1/76 Scale Armor and AFVs.
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Posted: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 - 01:55 AM UTC
I received "a few" 1/72 kits for review today, which included this remarkable contrast...
Type 94 on the left, E-100 on the right:

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Posted: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 - 04:02 AM UTC
Molded-on spare track?? OUCH!! (Maybe that's Dragon's latest release!)
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Posted: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 - 04:22 AM UTC

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Molded-on spare track?? OUCH!! (Maybe that's Dragon's latest release!)


Trumpeter... Fake tracks.
Just wait until you see the latest "next generation" Dragon release - still no spare track links at all, but one piece moulded wheel and track units.
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Posted: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 - 07:27 PM UTC
Shame on them! (Dragon and Trumpeter) Looks like they don't give a flying **** anymore.
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Posted: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 - 08:15 PM UTC

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Shame on them! (Dragon and Trumpeter) Looks like they don't give a flying **** anymore.


And you just figured that out? Woe be them that ignore how Flyhawk, ModelCollect and a few others are nipping at their ankles of what were these "main stream" manufacturers. Note my using the past tense!

Cheers,
Jan
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Posted: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 - 08:18 PM UTC
The larger the scale, the more detail.
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Posted: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 - 08:52 PM UTC
That may be Matt, but I for one am definitely not making room in my display cabinet for a 1/35 scale E-100. Still trying to figure out where my 1/35 Morser Karl with railway transporter is going to go if /when I ever finish it.

On the plus side, that tiny Type 94 by IBG comes with a sheet of photo etch.
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Posted: Thursday, July 27, 2017 - 04:06 AM UTC

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And you just figured that out? Woe be them that ignore how Flyhawk, ModelCollect and a few others are nipping at their ankles of what were these "main stream" manufacturers. Note my using the past tense!

Cheers,
Jan


Flyhawk is no longer nipping at anyone's ankles - they already chewed them (Dragon, et al.) up and spit them out! Flyhawk is at the top of the game for both 1/72 armor and 1/700 ships. KUDOS!!
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