Well, I've read the thread again, and I've seen complaints about this and that, but I can't find anybody complaining that they were "forced to build a model". So, I have no idea why you're telling us this.

So far all Dragon has produced is a couple of small CAD (?) drawings of the tank, while Amusing Hobbies has the the kit ready to go. Maybe Dragon is just trying to hurt AH's sales with announcements. They've done it before.

looks like amusing is making one as well

Perhaps DML's announcement is to drop cold water on AH's announcement -- that's a good guess. But like others have said, AH makes a very good product at a very good price. If AH hits the shelves first, I doubt there would be many people who would hold of buying it in order to wait for a DML release.

I wonder what the price difference will be... If the AH product is less than Dragon's then there's no shadow of a doubt that the AH will out sell.

Unfortunately, the design team that Dragon has assigned to their Black Label project line has proven to be terrible at research. These kits are well into into Academy territory when it comes to unnecessary and nearly unfixable errors. So, regardless of how attractive the subject appears, I'll wait to see the reviews before I open my wallet.

Only because DML invented the Black Label series after the T28 release. The T28 kit has all the features of the Black Label kits: including the subject choice and a crappy research... Really?... Not a bad model? Where you cannot even put the turret on the hull without extra effort? And it is not a bad model of what? Certainly not of M103A1... A review sample from DML perhaps?... The Black Label kits are simplified, poorly researched and WAY overpriced, while Amusing kits are much more reasonably priced and their quality so far exceeds that of Black Label kits. Yet you blindly declare that you will get the Dragon kit... I would understand it if the Black Label kit was the only choice in plastic, as in case of M103, Kpz70 or M6A1, but in this case?... It is even more surprising than our negativity towards it. A review sample seems to be the only reasonable explanation.

So far all the AH kits are significantly cheaper than the Black Label kits.

I would like to stick to the topic, being Dragon's release, but I think AH is the way to go.