Looks great. But I wonder if we will get a new Cromwell in 1/35.

I'm noticing a trend, here. Italeri seems to be going the route Airfix has. The obvious difference is scale. And, while on the topic of scale, why 1/56? Are they trying to enter the war gaming market? No gripes. I'm just curious as to this marketing development.

1/56 is the common translation of a wargaming scale, I think 28mm. If you look at the kit sprues, it's extremely simplified and certainly aimed at the wargaming market. Paul

Italeri has joined with Warlord Games to produce some 1/56 ( 28 mm heroic ) war game vehicles . So far they have a M4 Sherman , a Panther A and now the Cromwell ( got one ordered ). Next up is rumoured to be a Puma armoured car . Italeri also sells smaller sets of Warlord's plastic figures . I have both the Sherman and Panther , fun builds but they're for gaming so tools for the most part are molded on ,think 1970s era Aurora type kits , the road wheels are one large piece with two piece track . Most hatches are molded closed and the ones that aren't are sized for the smaller scale metal tank crews . As I said fun to build using bits and pieces from the parts box and 40 plus years of 1/35 model building skills.