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Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 12:09 AM UTC
The latest news from Minor is radios and radio cabinets in 1/35 scale, all in photo-etched.
Minor has sent in news for more vehicle accessories in photo-etched, this time radios and cabinets. The SCR-508 radio set is full photo-etched and is available to two choices of cabinet mounts. The cabinets, with mounts, can also be had in separate kits.

AVM35058 – SCR-508 Radio Set
AVM35059 – CH-47 Cabinet with FT-284 Mount
AVM35061 – CH-47 Cabinet with FT-285 Mount
GM35018 – SCR-508, Cabinet with FT-284 Mount
GM35019 – SCR-508, Cabinet with FT-285 Mount
GM35017 – SCR-508 Radio Set for WWII Jeep

Armorama would like to thank Minor for providing this update.
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Having worked on these radios at the Patton Museum (including one transmitter that a mouse had made a condo out of,) this new offering from Minor looks to be dead on! Fantastic! The first photo would be a perfect set up for either the Sherman or the Stuart. (Use only the FT shelf inside the tank, not the big box enclosure.) Most tankers however, would forego the center storage box and instead put in two receivers so they could monitor their squad channel as well as the command channel at the same time. One tiny criticism: The circle with the four screws around it on the far left side of the big transmitter box should actually be a clear glass viewing window. I would recommend carefully drilling this circle out and adding some clear plastic to the inside of the box. (I can't help but mention this - the mouse lead such a happy and long life he died of natural causes, in his bed, inside the transmitter!) TAPS Please!
MAY 16, 2013 - 12:40 AM
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MAY 16, 2013 - 02:22 AM
Wonderful stuff, even if I don't have the right vehicle, it'll be fun to display next to 1/1 examples on my shelf! Will be fun to make all the channel buttons out of stretch sprue
MAY 16, 2013 - 08:19 AM
Small stainless steel rod might be a better choice since all the buttons were chrome plated.
MAY 16, 2013 - 10:30 AM
These are really nice, but the photos illistrate a problem with PE items such as this., Even the manufactuer has not been able to build the radios with tight corners adn closed seams. I love PE for many things, but large blocky items seldom go together as well as they need to be really look the part. In an idea world such things would be a mix of resin box with PE details. To my eye, all-resin radios tend to look better when build than all-PE radios, but perhaps that's just me. I'm sure someone out there can build these things perfectly, but I have eto say that the larger & more intricate box structures seldom come out as nice as they could be. Paul
MAY 16, 2013 - 04:43 PM
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