Maybe it does, but it can't be converted from a Cromwell as the hull was longer and wider. A quick look on a local online hobby shop showed 6 different kits of the Tiger1, 5 of the Tiger2, 8 Panthers, and numerous Panzer III & IV variants. Against this we have a number of Shermans ( I didn't count these) which can be made as British vehicles but only 1 Cromwell ( and 1 Centaur which is closely related), 1 Churchill, a couple of old and pretty dire Valentines, and two Crusaders (both from the same company).
Not everybody wants to build X number of the same vehicle and we can't all afford resin kits which are the only way at present. The number of other threads which have expressed similar sentiments show that the hobby is being driven by the manufacturer and not by the consumer.

I agree that it seems as if tamiya is only reboxing/retooling old kits. Seems like they dont care about looking into new kits and investigation it takes to make a brand NEW DIFFERENT kit.

Bet all of you if TAMIYA were to make a CHAR-B, it would go off like a wildfire. Guarantee you they would make a statement to the rest of the industry that they are at the top still. But from what I understand, the president of Tamiya, his son is basically running things now and he is steering more towards R/C items. He does not really spend that much time paying attention to plastic as much as his father did. Which is sad, because everyone else is running to the top to be the "KING OF THE HILL".

Almost forgot, I HAVE TO AGREE with everything that JACKHAMMER mentioned. How many times are they going to produce the same vehicle???? Im pretty sure mostly every vehicle the germans built is now in plastic or resin !!!!!!!!!! How about allied vehicles that still are waiting for someone to even come up with the blueprints so it can be made into a model?????? Just look at ACCURATE, they came out with a GMC Wrecker from WW2. Unfortunately its in resin, so the majority of will think 2,3,4 times if not more before even deciding to buy it. Heres an idea, a gold mine that has yet to be even touched. Look at the vehicles that South Africa has in its military. Talk about vehicles that are different and look odd. But they do the job, that would be interesting to see in plastic.

This hobby is like trying to find more types of living animals on this planet that have yet to be discovered. Except we know where to look, yet they dont care, which is also sad.

Well, Trumpeter or Dragon will be the next KING OF THE HILL then, just give them a couple of years. What difference does it make to modellers? Personaly, I don't care much about the name on the box as long as quality of the kit is good enough for me. So, I guess there is nothing sad about it.

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I aagree with you on that but by the looks of it trumpeter isnt pigeon holeing it's self into one genre of kit so far we've seen a nice diverstiy of unusal subjects and when they get it wrong they change the tooling ie chally 2 not just a re-hash or re-issue of and older kit when another company anounces a new release funny when AFV club/skybow mentioned the bulldog sure enough out pops tamiyas old dog I've only been modelling a few years and I've noticed that they have done this on
a few occations so they really have to pull their socks up