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Accurate Armour M26 Pershing conversios
generalzod
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Posted: Friday, February 07, 2003 - 09:55 AM UTC
Accurate Armour has released 3 resin conversion sets fot Tamiy's M26 Pershing CO75 is the Super Pershing used bye the 3rd Armored Division in late WW2 You get the turret,the longer 90mm barrel and the hull armor
CO79 is the M26A1 Korean war version CO76 is the M45 105mm howitzer version The last 2 also come with the T80E1? Post WW2 tracks They can be seen at
http://www.accurate-armour.com As far as I know the only U.S. importers are rollmodels.com and rjproducts.com
m1garand
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Posted: Friday, February 07, 2003 - 10:05 AM UTC
Thanks for the heads up Chad. That C075 is very tempting.
M4A1-M4A3
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Posted: Saturday, February 08, 2003 - 12:43 AM UTC
I am working on the AA conversion, plus a scratch built one, having all hatches open and adding an engine, boy you can sure tell they did not give much thought about the people who would be working on the engine.............traverse left, need to check a spark plug, oopps to far.
Good thing about the Velinden engine set is that you do not need to do any cutting, as for the AA conversion, super .
stugiiif
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Posted: Saturday, February 08, 2003 - 01:04 AM UTC
I did a reveiw of the super pershing kit for the DSB newletter, needless to say i was impressed with the kit, i'm waiting on a base to weather it buti'll post a pic so y'all can see the monster.... stug

generalzod
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Posted: Saturday, February 08, 2003 - 04:15 AM UTC
Over at www.missionmodels.com they are taking pre-orders for the Super Pershing conversion It's selling for $65 U.S. A little pricey IMO All your really getting is the turret,gun barrel,and hull armor The Tamiya kit costs roughly $40+$65 for conversion=$105 total I've seen the full resin kit go for $125 I guess 20 bucks is 20 bucks Plus you won't have to deal with those resin tracks
M4A1-M4A3
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Posted: Saturday, February 08, 2003 - 05:23 AM UTC
How SWEEEEEET it is. You got to love that U.S stuff
M4A1-M4A3
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Posted: Monday, February 10, 2003 - 06:12 AM UTC
Just a heads up on the engine for this monster, (if you are planning on adding one) I added all the hoses and wiring to the engine and added flexable hose to the air cleaners. BUT DO NOT GLUE the front of the compartment on, tape or tack it for now, with all the hoses on the engine the air cleaners do not fit proper I had to add a spacer to the floor to get the right fit, also hold off in putting the tanks in until you get the proper alignment.
Just though I would pass this on.
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