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Tamiya's Old 1/35 Pershing
kinmanb
Joined: March 19, 2013
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Posted: Friday, June 21, 2019 - 02:18 AM UTC
Does anyone have a status on GTG Resin? The website has not been updated in a while. I am if the T81 tracks if they make them. Also want to go AM for the tracks on my Pershing. The AFV set is awful.
Tank1812
Joined: April 29, 2014
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Posted: Friday, June 21, 2019 - 02:22 AM UTC
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Speaking of ATLANTIS- They recently re-released the old AURORA 1/48 H-25 "Army Mule"/US NAVY-US MARINES HUP-2 kit. Talk about CRUDE!!!
The mold is even older as Aurora was the second owner.
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/helicopters-industry-piasecki-hup--936964
Still might be better then the Mach 2 kit when built, the only two at that scale.
http://hsfeatures.com/hup2mw_1.htm
http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/atl/kit_atl_a502.shtml
M4A1Sherman
Joined: May 02, 2013
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Posted: Friday, June 21, 2019 - 02:28 AM UTC
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Does anyone have a status on GTG Resin? The website has not been updated in a while. I am if the T81 tracks if they make them. Also want to go AM for the tracks on my Pershing. The AFV set is awful.
I wish that I had NEVER bought ANY of the AFV CLUB Track sets, built and/or un-built...
Bravo1102
Joined: December 08, 2003
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Posted: Friday, June 21, 2019 - 05:34 AM UTC
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Hi, Steve!
Impossible kits- have you ever tried the old 1/32(?) RENWALL US Army Anti-Aircraft Gun? 76mm,
Speaking of ATLANTIS- They recently re-released the old AURORA 1/48 H-25 "Army Mule"/US NAVY-US MARINES HUP-2 kit. Talk about CRUDE!!!
1952. They could mold plastic on 1952?
The Renwal kit was the "Skysweeper" I saw a recent build of it on Twitter and it looked very good. It was considered among the best of the Renwal 1/32 kits. The 5 tonwrecker is almost buildable for a 1950s kit.
I picked up the nostalgia reissues of the M34 Eager Beaver and Halftracks and will be building them. Just get them into the ballpark with the build I missed doing when I was a teenager. (It was my Esci 1/72 phase. Built every single braille scale armor kit using the just published Panzer Colors book)
I actually did all the research to accurize the Aurora Panther and even built a prototype in HO. I also completely rebuilt the Revell 1/40 T-34 even correcting all the proportions-- just to see if I could.
long_tom
Joined: March 18, 2006
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Posted: Friday, June 21, 2019 - 08:03 AM UTC
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Quoted TextDoes anyone have a status on GTG Resin? The website has not been updated in a while. I am if the T81 tracks if they make them. Also want to go AM for the tracks on my Pershing. The AFV set is awful.
I wish that I had NEVER bought ANY of the AFV CLUB Track sets, built and/or un-built...
Bronco makes some tracks, but I don't know how good they are.
M4A1Sherman
Joined: May 02, 2013
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Posted: Friday, June 21, 2019 - 09:23 AM UTC
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Hi, Steve!
Impossible kits- have you ever tried the old 1/32(?) RENWALL US Army Anti-Aircraft Gun? 76mm,
Speaking of ATLANTIS- They recently re-released the old AURORA 1/48 H-25 "Army Mule"/US NAVY-US MARINES HUP-2 kit. Talk about CRUDE!!!
1952. They could mold plastic on 1952?
The Renwal kit was the "Skysweeper" I saw a recent build of it on Twitter and it looked very good. It was considered among the best of the Renwal 1/32 kits. The 5 tonwrecker is almost buildable for a 1950s kit.
I picked up the nostalgia reissues of the M34 Eager Beaver and Halftracks and will be building them. Just get them into the ballpark with the build I missed doing when I was a teenager. (It was my Esci 1/72 phase. Built every single braille scale armor kit using the just published Panzer Colors book)
I actually did all the research to accurize the Aurora Panther and even built a prototype in HO. I also completely rebuilt the Revell 1/40 T-34 even correcting all the proportions-- just to see if I could.
1952, what? Which 1952 kit are you talking about? And yes, they were molding all kinds of stuff in plastic back in the 1920s. SOME of the different plastics were pretty fragile in some cases; all you had to do was look at it in a certain way, and it shattered!
:O :O :O !!!
I never bothered to accurate-ize my 1/40 REVELL T-34. I was too busy trying to get the Tracks to fit some of my AURORA 1/48 Tanks-
And then came MONOGRAM!!! Oh, HAPPY DAYS!!!
1/48 Aircraft of all different kinds, PLUS their 1/32 US Army vehicles!!!
Ahhh, the SQUADRON/SIGNAL "PANZER COLORS" books, I, II, & III PLUS the SS Armor book- I bought all four of them... 1970s-vintage stuff. The young "whipper-snapper guys" today would turn their noses up at them, but those four books were the "Panzer-Bibles" back in the '70s and '80s...
Uh-OH!!! We're HIJACKING this thread! Better get back on subject...
kinmanb
Joined: March 19, 2013
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Posted: Friday, June 21, 2019 - 10:44 AM UTC
I am building a set of Bronco T97E2s for an M60 I am building. Not bad- but they are multi part affairs and take some time to get into the groove with construction.
M4A1Sherman
Joined: May 02, 2013
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Posted: Saturday, June 22, 2019 - 09:38 AM UTC
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2002, not recent, that's for sure
So what's "recent"..? Anything that comes out 6 months from now..?
Just kidding, of course... Bravo1102
Joined: December 08, 2003
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Posted: Sunday, June 23, 2019 - 12:45 AM UTC
I just did a set of Afv-club T97E2 for a M48A5 and they worked fine. And look much better than the DS track just installed on a M4A3 HVSS. It sort of hangs and looks soft all over.
But then I realized that's what slack "live" track looks like. A sitting tank has no tension on the track, so it can sort of float.
Whereas the link to link bunches up and doesn't sag like live track without a lot of gluing. And the track is so factory fresh. Took a mototool to it to give it some wear. I found that if you follow the directions exactly the Afv-club club track is fine.
But then I realized that's what slack "live" track looks like. A sitting tank has no tension on the track, so it can sort of float.
Whereas the link to link bunches up and doesn't sag like live track without a lot of gluing. And the track is so factory fresh. Took a mototool to it to give it some wear. I found that if you follow the directions exactly the Afv-club club track is fine.
long_tom
Joined: March 18, 2006
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Posted: Thursday, July 04, 2019 - 06:22 AM UTC
I found out Bronco makes a kit of the later M26 tracks-and the kit comes with a replacement drive sprocket so you can add it to the Tamiya kit if desired.
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