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Armor/AFV: Braille Scale
1/72 and 1/76 Scale Armor and AFVs.
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jimbrae
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Posted: Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 11:00 PM UTC
1/72nd scale that is... :-)

I'm preparing images for a review, and some people just may be surprised at how far 1/72nd has come in the last year or two....Jim









majorme
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Posted: Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 11:07 PM UTC
looks like some very nice, sharp details. I also like the texture on the turret. I think 1/72 has improved a lot in the last years. I believe the numbers on the sprue( ''locating'' parts ) have sharper detail than some of the old 1/72 kits :-) :-) :-) :-) hey, only the real old ones


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Posted: Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 11:30 PM UTC
My interest is peaked, now we need some good Gen 2 figures to go with it. I will need to get some magnifing glasses though to put it together. The old MK 1 eyeballs are not what they used to be.

Tom
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Posted: Monday, September 25, 2006 - 03:46 AM UTC

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My interest is peaked, now we need some good Gen 2 figures to go with it. I will need to get some magnifing glasses though to put it together. The old MK 1 eyeballs are not what they used to be.

Tom



Gen 2 figures in 1/72 scale would be nice but, I'm not holding my breath as Dragon seems to ignore us braille scalers when it comes to figures
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Posted: Monday, September 25, 2006 - 06:22 PM UTC
Arrghhh! And I thought it was the 35th! :-) :-) :-)

Just looking at the details, this could be easily mistaken as a 1/35 when taken digitally. Fantastic!
RedwingNev
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Posted: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 11:36 PM UTC
Looking forward to that review, and looking forward to the kit even more!
INDIA11A
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Posted: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 - 12:24 AM UTC
Wow, has it ever come a long way from when I did 72/76 scale armour. Beautifully done. If the eyes were not so bad or the fingers so big....
TankSGT
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Posted: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 - 12:45 AM UTC
Oh well it means Higher magnification on the specs and more tweezers but I'm willing to give it a go. Just finished the Leopard2A6 and got the M4A1. The nice thing is you can get 3 or 4 kits for the price of 1.

Tom
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Posted: Sunday, October 01, 2006 - 12:06 AM UTC
It would be nice if DML scaled there figures down to 1/72 scale for us small scale modellers, but it guess this will never happen. Although the figures in the LCM 3 look nice they are in that horrible vinyl!
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