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Border: Panzer III Familyvaranusk
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Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain / Espaņa
Joined: July 04, 2013
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Posted: Thursday, July 09, 2020 - 07:30 PM UTC
Border joins the party announcing also a family of Panzer III
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m4sherman
Arizona, United States
Joined: January 18, 2006
KitMaker: 1,866 posts
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Joined: January 18, 2006
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Posted: Friday, July 10, 2020 - 12:09 AM UTC
Sigh, I like the idea of more PZ III. Hopefully the tip of an iceberg and more will be coming.
obg153
Texas, United States
Joined: April 07, 2009
KitMaker: 1,063 posts
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Joined: April 07, 2009
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Posted: Friday, July 10, 2020 - 05:59 AM UTC
Crikey!! RFM and now Border!?!?! Hopefully the competition will result in some fine, updated kits, though my wallet may never recover.
azadro
Joined: September 24, 2007
KitMaker: 47 posts
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Posted: Friday, July 10, 2020 - 06:06 AM UTC
I would like to see a bergepanzer III...
petbat
Queensland, Australia
Joined: August 06, 2005
KitMaker: 3,353 posts
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Joined: August 06, 2005
KitMaker: 3,353 posts
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Posted: Friday, July 10, 2020 - 10:00 AM UTC
At least it is not another 'one of a kind' but I would like to see something really exiting other than the Panzer 3 of which there are already several.... and more coming.
Don't get me wrong, I love a panzer as much as the next builder, but there are so many other vehicles not done or that we could do with more up to date kits, which if built would not put the manufacturers in competition for the same $.
If you really want to impress in WW2, how about an Australian Sentinel! Okay personal preference there, but what about vehicles due for updates like the Panzerwerfer 42, Hellcat, Crusader, M39, early LVT's, M29 Weasel, etc. Or vehicles long over due in 1/35th styrene form like the Daimler Armoured car, M5 Half tracks, Terrapin, Sherman Crab and Duplex Drive, etc... or the long promised never delivered M8 GMC.
Takom's FV 432, M47's, US T30 and Chieftains and AFV Club Centurions and M60's as well as Miniarts T54 nd T55's all show a strong market for Cold War vehicles. Why not start looking at options there
Abbott
Saracen & Stalwart (and a better Saladin)
Ferret (how many versions?)
Lynx
CVR(t) (later versions of Scorpion and Scimitar)
New M107, M110, etc.
M37. M41, M43 and M44 HMC
M56 Scorpion
Early Leopard 1 - it is due for an update
Then the Warsaw pact vehicles
...okay you get my drift.... no need to go on..
Don't get me wrong, I love a panzer as much as the next builder, but there are so many other vehicles not done or that we could do with more up to date kits, which if built would not put the manufacturers in competition for the same $.
If you really want to impress in WW2, how about an Australian Sentinel! Okay personal preference there, but what about vehicles due for updates like the Panzerwerfer 42, Hellcat, Crusader, M39, early LVT's, M29 Weasel, etc. Or vehicles long over due in 1/35th styrene form like the Daimler Armoured car, M5 Half tracks, Terrapin, Sherman Crab and Duplex Drive, etc... or the long promised never delivered M8 GMC.
Takom's FV 432, M47's, US T30 and Chieftains and AFV Club Centurions and M60's as well as Miniarts T54 nd T55's all show a strong market for Cold War vehicles. Why not start looking at options there
Abbott
Saracen & Stalwart (and a better Saladin)
Ferret (how many versions?)
Lynx
CVR(t) (later versions of Scorpion and Scimitar)
New M107, M110, etc.
M37. M41, M43 and M44 HMC
M56 Scorpion
Early Leopard 1 - it is due for an update
Then the Warsaw pact vehicles
...okay you get my drift.... no need to go on..
Posted: Friday, July 10, 2020 - 04:42 PM UTC
Quoted Text
At least it is not another 'one of a kind' but I would like to see something really exiting other than the Panzer 3 of which there are already several.... and more coming.
Don't get me wrong, I love a panzer as much as the next builder, but there are so many other vehicles not done or that we could do with more up to date kits, which if built would not put the manufacturers in competition for the same $.
If you really want to impress in WW2, how about an Australian Sentinel! Okay personal preference there, but what about vehicles due for updates like the Panzerwerfer 42, Hellcat, Crusader, M39, early LVT's, M29 Weasel, etc. Or vehicles long over due in 1/35th styrene form like the Daimler Armoured car, M5 Half tracks, Terrapin, Sherman Crab and Duplex Drive, etc... or the long promised never delivered M8 GMC.
Takom's FV 432, M47's, US T30 and Chieftains and AFV Club Centurions and M60's as well as Miniarts T54 nd T55's all show a strong market for Cold War vehicles. Why not start looking at options there
Abbott
Saracen & Stalwart (and a better Saladin)
Ferret (how many versions?)
Lynx
CVR(t) (later versions of Scorpion and Scimitar)
New M107, M110, etc.
M37. M41, M43 and M44 HMC
M56 Scorpion
Early Leopard 1 - it is due for an update
Then the Warsaw pact vehicles
...okay you get my drift.... no need to go on..
petbat
Queensland, Australia
Joined: August 06, 2005
KitMaker: 3,353 posts
Armorama: 3,121 posts
Joined: August 06, 2005
KitMaker: 3,353 posts
Armorama: 3,121 posts
Posted: Friday, July 10, 2020 - 07:19 PM UTC
Go slap your S flag and Afrika Corp figures on your Leo 2 Gaz...
I'll worry when the violin you play looks like this:
I'll worry when the violin you play looks like this:
Taeuss
Manitoba, Canada
Joined: January 03, 2016
KitMaker: 3,791 posts
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Joined: January 03, 2016
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Posted: Sunday, July 12, 2020 - 03:13 PM UTC
I'm with the guy on the Bergepanzer III, especially if it comes with that huge recovery hook. I've built a Bergepanzer III already but that hook is something that I never got around to making so I'm in for a kit that offers it.