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Tamiya T-55...it's here...pic
Kraftstoff
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Posted: Saturday, October 05, 2002 - 01:37 AM UTC
The long awaited kit by Tamiya has arrived:

cheers,
Dave
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Posted: Saturday, October 05, 2002 - 05:22 AM UTC
I'll have to look it over when it gets out to HobbyTown. Any hints about new Russian or Warsaw Pact infantry to go with it?
Kraftstoff
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Posted: Saturday, October 05, 2002 - 05:33 AM UTC
Hi Blue,
I'm pulling your leg...this is the Tamiya T-55 that was around in the 60's when I was a kid...the new ones supposed to be out in Dec.(:-)

Cheers,
Dave
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Posted: Saturday, October 05, 2002 - 05:35 AM UTC
AAACK!! #:-)
210cav
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Posted: Saturday, October 05, 2002 - 06:37 AM UTC

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Hi Blue,
I'm pulling your leg...this is the Tamiya T-55 that was around in the 60's when I was a kid...the new ones supposed to be out in Dec.(:-)

Cheers,
Dave


Dave--we have severly beaten people for doing less to our heart strings!
DJ
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Posted: Saturday, October 05, 2002 - 06:57 AM UTC
I thought : how strange, they've gone back to that old style drawing !

If we're lucky, maybe there will even be nice sovieet figures... or even soldiers from arab or african countries, cubans ? (:-)
YodaMan
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Posted: Saturday, October 05, 2002 - 11:40 AM UTC

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Dave--we have severly beaten people for doing less to our heart strings!
DJ

Heh heh... remember the time everyone started yelling at me because I said I knew a guy who got a Dragon Wagon for $30?? :-) That was 'Classic ArmoramA'!!! :-)

Sadly, that series of posts was lost when there was a site outage...

YodaMan
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Posted: Saturday, October 05, 2002 - 12:12 PM UTC
On Krypton we'd sentence people like him to 10 sun cycles in the Phantom Zone That's 10 of your earth years Allthough I didn't know Tamiya had a T 55 at one time
Chad
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Posted: Saturday, October 05, 2002 - 02:59 PM UTC

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On Krypton we'd sentence people like him to 10 sun cycles in the Phantom Zone That's 10 of your earth years Allthough I didn't know Tamiya had a T 55 at one time
Chad


Chad--quite an appealing sentence for one who treads so heavily upon the heart.
DJ
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Posted: Saturday, October 05, 2002 - 07:20 PM UTC

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Heh heh... remember the time everyone started yelling at me because I said I knew a guy who got a Dragon Wagon for $30?? :-) That was 'Classic ArmoramA'!!! :-)

Sadly, that series of posts was lost when there was a site outage...

YodaMan



Funny....I got one for $35. A guy in my modeling club sold one to me for half of what he paid for it. SWEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!

MLD
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Posted: Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 05:11 AM UTC
Sort of like me getting a Trumpeter 1/32 A10 for $5?
Raffle at the local club.
Now to spend $$$$ on aftermarket!

Mike
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Posted: Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 11:50 AM UTC

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Sort of like me getting a Trumpeter 1/32 A10 for $5?
Raffle at the local club.
Now to spend $$$$ on aftermarket!

Mike


ARRRGGGG....lucky #!@%$#............
Bravo-Comm
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Posted: Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 01:41 AM UTC
HOLD THE PRESS FOLKS, You mean to tell me that the Tamiya T-55 which I was lead to believe would be coming out in NOVEMBER, (Which Is when my Birthday is) Will not be out until CHRISTMAS ?? AWWWW, Now that's just Plain Wrong !!! Your Breaking my heart...I can only hope that you are mistaken..Because otherwise I will be crying VERY LOUDLY. And for a very long time....I WANT MY T-55...NOW !!!!. He-He-He.

DAGGER, He who cries the loudest get the most !!!
clovis899
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Posted: Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 04:27 PM UTC
Dagger,

You can try Hobby-Link Japan, they tend to get things out within days of release in Japan. Where did you see a timeframe for the T-55 from T.?

Coop
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Posted: Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 12:49 AM UTC

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Dagger,

You can try Hobby-Link Japan, they tend to get things out within days of release in Japan. Where did you see a timeframe for the T-55 from T.?

Coop


Coop--I am a big fan of Hobby Link Japan. I ordered the T-55 from them. They are quick and remarkably inexpensive.
Try them, you'll like them.
DJ
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Posted: Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 01:33 AM UTC
I never knew that they made a T-55 kit. I found a JSIII kit that they did in the sixties though
Sabot
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Posted: Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 04:19 AM UTC
I didn't know they did a JSIII that long ago. I like the new one they have out, it is a very nice kit, even though the experts say the back deck was taken off a different type of tank.
210cav
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Posted: Monday, October 14, 2002 - 01:45 AM UTC

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I didn't know they did a JSIII that long ago. I like the new one they have out, it is a very nice kit, even though the experts say the back deck was taken off a different type of tank.


Rob--HLJ usually carries all the Tamiya kits. However, I recently tried to order the Tamiya T-34/76 only to be told they were definitely out of production!
C'est la guerre.
DJ
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Posted: Monday, October 14, 2002 - 02:51 AM UTC
When The announcement was made last month or so about it coming out, I thought taht some one here had mentioned about it coming out in November. AND I...... " THINK" My local shop had told me that it would be available then...So I will call them and check on it later today. MEANWHILE... I have FINALLY completed the Tiger-1 and the STUG-IV project. Hope to post pictures of them sometime this week.. Starting on the Italeri M-60 kit. And will hopefully have it done in a week or two.. After that I will be working on the replacement model for the Challenger -1 kit. as the aging HMR Serb Slayer has been De-Mobilzed and will be replaced by the Challenger-1 Mk-3 kit. to be followed by the West German Leo-2A5.
And then the M-26 pershing kit. So I still have lots to do.


DAGGER-1
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Posted: Monday, October 14, 2002 - 05:18 AM UTC

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Rob--HLJ usually carries all the Tamiya kits. However, I recently tried to order the Tamiya T-34/76 only to be told they were definitely out of production!
C'est la guerre.
DJ
Looks like you got lucky then DJ. The Tamiya T-34 series (even the newest reissues) are among the worst T-34s on the market. Try the DML kit or the Italeri (reboxed Zvezda) T-34s. Much better overall shape. I already have their latest JSIII kit, I just didn't know they had made a JSIII way back in the 1960s. Of course, I don't think I ever saw a Tamiya kit until the late 70s (1978-79).
210cav
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Posted: Monday, October 14, 2002 - 06:19 AM UTC
Rob---thanks for the advice. I will shop around and grab one one of them. Have you now completed the course at Fort Lee?
DJ
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