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Saturday, May 14, 2016 - 12:44 PM UTC
Here are the news from Takom, announced at Shizuoka 2016 show. Two new AMX-13 variants and something for the serious collector in 1/1 scale as well.
2062 - AMX-13/105

2063 - AMX-13 w Chaffee Turret

Takom also announced their Type-59 and Type-69 kits announced earlier will be available globally, not just on the Chinese market.

A bit of a surprise is another announcement, marketed as "The first plastic kit of a real tank part"... a Panther track in 1/1 scale! Interesting.



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Are there any reviews concerning the variant with Chaffee turret? I cannot see anymore the kit in TAKOM'S webpage and in several eshops it seems discontinued? Are there any issues of fitting or accuracy concerning the kit?
SEP 04, 2017 - 12:11 PM
LINK click on the correct picture to get this: LINK Is this the kit you are looking for? For sale at my favourite plastic dealer: LINK I haven't seen any reviews though, haven't searched either. Don't know where they got the Chaffee turret from but there should be reviews of the chassis (AMX-13) somewhere. / Robin
SEP 04, 2017 - 12:57 PM
Thanks for the reply! That is the exact kit and the dealer i am also going to buy from. But i remember that i have read somewhere about accuracy issues with the chaffee turret! that is why i was trying to find reviews or discussions about the kit but i cannot find anything!
SEP 04, 2017 - 02:27 PM
I found an ibox look of the AMX-13 Chaffee Turret. The turret seems to be a completely new tool, just for that kit. http://heller-forever.forumdefan.com/t7317-takom-amx-13-chaffee-turret I think there is another boxing with a spare AMX-13/90 turret In France.
SEP 04, 2017 - 02:28 PM
Thanks for the reply! That is the exact kit and the dealer i am also going to buy from. But i remember that i have read somewhere about accuracy issues with the chaffee turret! that is why i was trying to find reviews or discussions about the kit but i cannot find anything! [/quote] Issues with Chaffee turret: Yes. The first releases from Bronco had problems. These were fixed and Bronco then sold the upper half of the turret shell as a separate replacement part. Newer deliveries of Broncos Chaffee variants have the corrected turret. LINK You could read through all of this: LINK but the important part about the turret is in the first post showing the original turret top by Bronco and a 1:1 turret. The sloping front plate on the original Bronco turret met the horizontal top in a weld seam. On the real turret the sloping front plate has a bend near the top (not a simple flat plate) so that it meets the horizontal top plate a few cm in from the edge. In other words, the horizontal top plate does NOT provide ALL of the horizontal surface on top of the turret, a narrow strip at the front is provided by the sloping front plate. Don't know why it was done this way in 1:1 scale, maybe to get the potential weakness of the weld seam away from the frontal area of the turret. / Robin Edit: and it is not a simple straight line where the two plates meet either. In front of the commanders hatch there is a narrow strip (as I wrote above) but in front of the loaders hatch the front plate goes all the way back to support the hinges for the loaders hatch.
SEP 04, 2017 - 03:46 PM
The above topics concern Bronco offering. Does the same issue occurs also with the TAKOM offering of the AMX with CHAFFEE turret kit?
SEP 04, 2017 - 06:53 PM
Don't think so. You would need to take a close look at the front half of the turret roof to be certain though. / Robin
SEP 04, 2017 - 07:05 PM
In this illustration the red line is the weld, the blue line is the bend. I can only guess as to why the weld joint was not at the bend. It was probably to avoid a difficulty in bending a plate that was not the full width or to simplify the plate cutting schedule or the weld joints. KL
SEP 04, 2017 - 07:45 PM
It is not very clear on this image of Takoms Chaffee turret but I get the impression that the weld and the bend are not together: It does seem as if a short section of the weld is missing, compare with the red line in the image that Kurt posted. / Robin
SEP 04, 2017 - 08:16 PM
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