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Armor/AFV: 48th Scale
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Bandai redux
Marlowe
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Ontario, Canada
Joined: June 12, 2005
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Posted: Friday, August 26, 2005 - 09:56 AM UTC
Looks like Bandai, venerable king of 1/48, is back in the game. Their jeep and BMWR with sidecar are said to be released in the autumn.
So now we have Tamiya, SkyBow, Trumpeter and Bandai.
Glenn
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Posted: Friday, August 26, 2005 - 10:17 AM UTC
Yum!
Biggles2
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Posted: Saturday, August 27, 2005 - 02:20 PM UTC
I hope their re-releases are re-tooled. Some of their kits, like the Pz lV D, were very nice, and some had glaring inaccuracies.
generalzod
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Posted: Sunday, August 28, 2005 - 07:12 AM UTC

Quoted Text

I hope their re-releases are re-tooled. Some of their kits, like the Pz lV D, were very nice, and some had glaring inaccuracies.


What was wrong with the Panzer IV ausf D?
Larry_dunn
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Posted: Monday, August 29, 2005 - 02:11 AM UTC

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Quoted Text

I hope their re-releases are re-tooled. Some of their kits, like the Pz lV D, were very nice, and some had glaring inaccuracies.


What was wrong with the Panzer IV ausf D?


He said that some of the kits, like the Pz IVD, were very nice.
28juni14
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Joined: May 21, 2005
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Posted: Monday, August 29, 2005 - 03:00 AM UTC
The Bandai kits were fine for their time; now, some 30 years later, we've learned so much more about vehicle detail that Bandai's inaccuracies are acute. To follow a discussion regarding their PzIV see:

http://www.network54.com/Forum/message?forumid=433829&messageid=1125246354
Byrden
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Wien, Austria
Joined: July 12, 2005
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Posted: Monday, August 29, 2005 - 06:53 AM UTC
Some of the Bandai were terrible - mostly the earlier ones, which tended to be German. The Pz 4 was a particular disaster. I can show photos of most of them (unbuilt) if needed.
KellyZak
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Joined: August 19, 2003
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Posted: Monday, August 29, 2005 - 07:32 AM UTC
I hear rumblings that Dragon are gonna venture into this scale too? imagine a 3n1 vehicle in that scale? pretty cool.
blaster76
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Posted: Monday, August 29, 2005 - 06:50 PM UTC
I built (and still have) most of their kits. Still have a few unbuilt ones. Don't know if I'll get back into 48th, got too much invested in 35th scale....besides at this point there is just so much more variety and I don't just build WW2
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