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Italeri: Leopard Revisited
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Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain / España
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Posted: Monday, April 09, 2018 - 03:34 AM UTC


Italeri has updated the Leopard 2A4 with new decals and gluable rubber tracks

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pod3105
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Waterford, Ireland
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Posted: Monday, April 09, 2018 - 05:09 AM UTC
Still with those Gawd-awful skirts combined with hatch and vent details.No thanks I'll pass on this one I think.
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Posted: Monday, April 09, 2018 - 07:17 AM UTC
If this is essentially #243 with new decals then it has the early style TC ring.
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Bayern, Germany
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Posted: Monday, April 09, 2018 - 08:56 AM UTC
All you get is a very expensive decal sheet.
tanknick22
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Posted: Monday, April 09, 2018 - 02:44 PM UTC

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All you get is a very expensive decal sheet.


Leave it up to italeri to re release a old kit thats been around since the late 90s and all they do is put the same track but made from a new matrial and new decals
I bet they forgot to add that little wire or cable fixture that is on the side of Turkish Leopard2s

Bravo1102
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Posted: Monday, April 09, 2018 - 03:33 PM UTC
This kit was really lackluster when it was first released in the late 1980s. Some of the first Photoetch I ever bought was the On-the-Mark set for this because this kit was so bare.

I ended up cutting it up for parts to dress up a what-if Panther 2A2.
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Bayern, Germany
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Posted: Monday, April 09, 2018 - 08:49 PM UTC

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Quoted Text

All you get is a very expensive decal sheet.


Leave it up to italeri to re release a old kit thats been around since the late 90s and all they do is put the same track but made from a new matrial and new decals
I bet they forgot to add that little wire or cable fixture that is on the side of Turkish Leopard2s



Turkish Army has different antenna bases. And the mods to build a good Panzer 87 are even more extemsive.
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England - East Anglia, United Kingdom
Joined: November 24, 2008
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Posted: Monday, April 09, 2018 - 10:35 PM UTC
Italeri even tooled some of the missing details like the later commander's hatch ring for this Revell issue of the kit https://www.scalemates.com/kits/106920-revell-03053-leopard-2-a4
but they forgot to include them in this release.
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 02:31 AM UTC
Goes to figure that Italeri wouldn't even use the better version of the kit...it truly was a mediocre kit even back then and time hasn't proven any kinder. I'd skip it as well, though I would at least look at the Revell Germany rebox.
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