It is on sale this month for 145.95 on their website: http://ironshipwrights.com/armor/armor_monthspecials.html Very cool to see WW I subjects, too bad it is out of my price range Nate

Nice find Nathan! ~ Jeff

If this were in styrene I would be in heaven! Very tempting even at the price of a resin kit...

I like the sponsons & the axle casing! The tracks are useful too - any hope they'd offer bits as detail sets? (The whole resin kit is too pricy, and I'm not sure about the huge rivets...) By the way, what's with the big box where the engine should be? Tom

very nice, but way out of my price range and many others probably to. I´ll wait a couple of years for something from usual suspects: DMC, Tamiya, Trumpeter etc. Paul

Nice looking kit. Time we had a new one in plastic 1/35 scale though c/w interior. Al

The box where the engine is is the cover for the engine. The photos that were provided to me by the researcher who developed the plans we used show that the cover was in place during operations. Also, we couldn't find really good references for the engine itself (dimensions and drive train mostly), so the cover provided, well, cover... As for the rivets. The diameter of the rivets are as close to dimensionally accurate (.05" dia. used as compared to a scale .047" dia. measured on the Mk I at Bovington), but all of the commercially available rivets are too domed (Tichy, Grandt Line). Archer was not an option since the correct spacing for the rivets were on the .035" dia. rivets, and the .05" dia rivet strip would have made each vertical run two rivets short. Attaching 2000+ rivets (26 packs at 96 rivets a pack) was a "pleasure" in and of itself, but I'm sure that re-spacing 2000+ decal based rivets would have been even more fun. But, I do agree with the comments that these "look" too big. Jon

Another placed on the 'to do' list even though it's priced very high, much more attractive than fighting with the other kits 4 piece tracks. It's like 2 or 2 1/2 kits as far as pricing goes but will end up with a better finished project in the end... to my collection. ~ Jeff

Thanks for the reply Jon! I hear ya on the rivets - the only thing worse for rivets than a WWI Heavy is the Shackleton bomber... But are the ones on the real thing really 1-1/2" diameter? Oh, well... As for that box, I guess we're all so used to seeing the exposed lump in preserved examples. (The Mk IV certainly did have frames for a two-part cover, but the cover panels are long gone... Check these out: Mk IV ) I still think there's a decent market for the resin tracks, if sold separately. Plenty of folks want to improve their old Emhar kits... Tom