My thought wasn't articulated clearly, that's all. The Tamiya version was a good kit for its time. So, the RFM version can't be any worse than that. That statement isn't a self-cotradiction, just a fact.

"made of metal" means that the cable is seperate to the clamps which means vice versa more detailed clamps and the choice to model the cables a different way (hanging somewhere, leaving them off etc.)

Really David come on.. don't play dumb on me. I know you are working with/for Dragon but you are a modeller, too (i guess) and you should know what the important parts/details on these kits are!
Do you want all your kits/tigers 100% new and with all tools, cables etc. in place? I don't and many other modellers i know don't want that either.
The way Dragon is moulding their kits right now it's not possible without surgery/aftermarket. With RFM Tigers you can do it OoB.

Several months back I asked a couple questions about a certain era of Tigers, and was pretty much ignored by the experts. Then outta the blue comes one David Byrden. His two or three replies were very helpful, and very respectful. The answers actually were not exactly what I wanted to read, but also very useful.

Now I've pretty much quit buying Tigers except for Dragon, RFM, Takom & Meng (latter two are Tiger II's). A lot of it is because that no matter which one you buy, you later feel like a fool for buying it. I probably will buy the Sturmtiger. Then read where you all have found 15 fatal flaws in the kit!!
gary

Look guys, if we could get back on topic which is who's releasing the next Sturmtiger-- not which Tiger is best, it would be good. I have three Sturmtigers on my shelf of doom-- an Italeri, a Tamiya, and an AFV club. None of which are 100% accurate, but if I had to go with the best Sturmtiger in the bunch, I'd say it was the Tamiya version-- the caveat is I've had to buy Eduard interior/exterior PE, Fruil tracks, Eduard Zimmerit PE, Lion Roar PE and LR Zimmerit rollers, etc. etc., to get it semi-accurate. Now even DN is making Sturmtiger "ambush scheme" masks too, which I suppose I'll have to buy. If the RFM offering can keep me from having to use the "add on stuff" I'll be happy. Dragon doesn't count in this discussion since they don't have one. But I think we should wait and see what the RFM offering looks like and compare it to the other three offerings before throwing stones at it--or we're just comparing apples to oranges.
VR, Russ