I have never seen this kit before, but ran across it at the local hobby shop. How good is it? I have the Academy M48A5 kit and have built an M48A5K out of it and liked it fine...

Also, Dragon has a new ZIS-5 WW II Truck w/ Troops on Great Models... anyone seen this one?

Are you sure it was Tamiya? i just looked at their site and found nothing about it there. They have an A3 but I found nothing on an A5.

To echo what Al says, I know Tamiya's M48A3 is a real decent kit, but other than that, I didn't know they did another M48 variant. I do know that Ironside reboxes the Tamiya kit with resin parts, PE and single link tracks as an M67 Flamethrower tank.

If I have time today I will go and look at it again... like I said, I was surprised, as I had no idea one existed, either. I will get the kit number off of it.

As i know an "m48a5" never existed of Tamiya, 2-2Dragoon.

It's probably Academy's.

The 48A5 was basically an M-60. They took old A1's pulled out the gas burners put in diesel, upgraded sights etc and put a 105mm on it. The tamiya kit is most assuredly the A3 version. I was at VMI in the early 70's and we had the A1's they took those and upgraded them to A5's because the 60's we were promised went to Iseral after Yom Kippur

OK, it was an Academy... I must have been on drugs that day...