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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 03:26 AM UTC
As the 'What's New' Function is M.I.A:, can I invite the users of the site to visit the latest (and Armorama first ) which consists of more than 20 new images of the box, the contents and the finished model...

KV1 News Story

I have also updated the KV2 News Story with another load of images:

KV2 Update Story...

Thanks, Jim
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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 03:41 AM UTC
Thanks Jim, they look really nice.
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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 03:43 AM UTC
Perhaps it is my imagination, but are Trumpeter's boxes taking on a DML look to them? The large artwork, lack of the traditional gray Trumpeter lines on the box top, the red colored box sides....
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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 03:45 AM UTC
OOooooH!!

I can see a nice flamethrower mantlet on the sprue with the turret ring.

jimbrae
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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 03:47 AM UTC

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Perhaps it is my imagination, but are Trumpeter's boxes taking on a DML look to them? The large artwork, lack of the traditional gray Trumpeter lines on the box top, the red colored box sides....


Not even slightly, the quality of their box-art has been considerably 'prettied' up around 6-7 kits ago... Thanks for mentioning that, I knew something was different...Jim
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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 03:52 AM UTC
Hmm they look good. When will armorama receive it's review sample? :-)

Thanks for posting.....armorama really keeps me up to date on modelling news (as I am too lazy to sweep the net on news myself )

Martin
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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 05:33 AM UTC
This does look interesting. I haven't gotten any Trumpeter kits, or Soviet for that matter, this might be a good kit to kill two birds with one stone.

I've a question. I don't know anything about length and link tracks. I can't tell from the picture, are those made out of hard plastic or what? It almost looks like sag is built into the long lengths, is that right?

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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 07:33 AM UTC
Hmmmm,

Looks like Trumpeter has some new winners on their hands! I like what i see, nice sharp details and some superb running gear, that is, as far as I can see from the pics offcourse!!

Thanks for sharing Jim!!

Cheers, John.
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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 07:48 AM UTC
Looks like it's time to dump my Tamiya KV-II kit!
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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 08:24 AM UTC

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Looks like it's time to dump my Tamiya KV-II kit!


Too late for me, all three are already built!!!!
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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 09:25 AM UTC
Hi

Between DML and Trumpeter .... WOW !! What a great time for modelers !!

Tom
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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 10:40 AM UTC

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This does look interesting. I haven't gotten any Trumpeter kits, or Soviet for that matter, this might be a good kit to kill two birds with one stone.

I've a question. I don't know anything about length and link tracks. I can't tell from the picture, are those made out of hard plastic or what? It almost looks like sag is built into the long lengths, is that right?



Rodger
Generally link and length or indy links are made of the same plastic as the kit I noticed that "sag" as well on the top run Hopefully it will look good on the kit
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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 12:03 PM UTC
Its nice to see both style of tracks offered in the box. That is one wild set of decals for the KV I. Interesting choice of markings.
jimbrae
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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 09:36 PM UTC
Don't forget that Trump is doing around 5 variants of the KV in total - Yum!!...Jim
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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 10:14 PM UTC
Trumpeter have picked 'Merciless' to model, same as Eastern Express

http://misc.kitreview.com/armourreviews/kv1model1941reviewcs_1.htm

Luckily the awful poem is in Cyrillic lettering so you won't be able to read it.

Guess the set of Tamiya KVs I have stashed will be staying under the bed permanently.
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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 10:53 PM UTC
I just saw that in our LHS. Goodie goodie... time to save...
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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 11:12 PM UTC

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I just saw that in our LHS. Goodie goodie... time to save...


That's amazing how Trumpeter kits are ALWAYS available in Philippines first. Any idea why? Even Hong Kong always gets them much later.

You lucky Filipinos! :-)

Pawel
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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 11:15 PM UTC

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That's amazing how Trumpeter kits are ALWAYS available in Philippines first. Any idea why? Even Hong Kong always gets them much later.

You lucky Filipinos! :-)

Pawel


I'm not sure, maybe it's the distance. :-) And the fact that it comes cheap here, 480 Phil Peso, roughly 10 USD.
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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 11:24 PM UTC

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And the fact that it comes cheap here, 480 Phil Peso, roughly 10 USD.


Owwwwww! O.K. that'll be 5 '1s' and a coupla '2s' then... Please don't put things like this in an open forum, it's just too, too painful...Jim
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Posted: Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 02:49 AM UTC
It's out here in Japan, too.
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Posted: Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 09:14 AM UTC
Looking forward to both of these and I am hoping that there is a KV-85 down the road also.

For some reason when I did 1/285 scale miniature wargaming I always had KV-85s and I like the tank.

Rob
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Posted: Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 07:45 PM UTC

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For some reason when I did 1/285 scale miniature wargaming I always had KV-85s and I like the tank.


- Rob, that is a coincidence. I always liked them in that scale as well. Not that they gave you any advantage (apart from the armor) as they were always so damned slow...

Curiously enough, even though I have just built two Tamiya KVs with Mig Conversion sets, I still haven't lost the illusion for the KV. A Kv85 conversion set will probably be on the drawing board as we speak...

Here are a couple of reasons why KVs are so attractive..Jim



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Posted: Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 09:14 PM UTC
This is a good news. I love the KV series... looking forward to get the KV-2 in LHS. Thanks for sharing the news Jim.
As for the filipinos members, we Malaysian too get trumpeters kit as fast as you all. The price is sometimes even cheaper then yours ... ops... sorry Jim.....
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