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Saturday, July 09, 2016 - 06:46 PM UTC
Next up from Hobby Boss is an early Nagmachon APC. This is the version with the three gun shields before the "doghouse" was added to the vehicle.
Nagmashot and Nagmachon is a heavily armoured infantry fighting vehicle fielded by the Israel Defence Forces. The Nagmachon evolved from the NagmaShot APC, which in turn was based on Centurion Sho't hulls from the 1970s and 1980s. The vehicle carries thick belly armour designed to withstand mine-blasts and mountings on the front hull for various engineering devices such as mine plows, mine rollers and dozer blades.
Early Nagmachons were equipped with three armoured shields to give soldiers firing the mounted FN general-purpose machine guns some degree of protection from small arms fire. Later Nagmachons were fitted a distinctive raised superstructure, sometimes referred to as a 'doghouse'. The raised superstructure and increased mine protection have made the Nagmachon an ideal platform for counter-insurgency and urban operations, seeing much use in the al-Aqsa Intifada within the occupied territories and southern Lebanon in 2006. It is often used as an engineering vehicle and a carrier for sappers, although its main role has been to carry infantry.
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Interesting. Is this their first Centurion chassis? If so, I assume we'll be seeing some other tanks / APC's coming out in the future?
JUL 09, 2016 - 09:10 PM
You keep posting "Hobby Boss." Are you a spammer of have something to contribute?
JUL 09, 2016 - 09:23 PM
You keep posting "Hobby Boss." Are you a spammer of have something to contribute?[/quote] The kit is actually Hobby Boss. All the pictures clearly show a Hobby Boss box, Hobby Boss instructions etc. So he is pointing out the kit is actually Hobby Boss and not Trumpeter as the news item indicates.
JUL 09, 2016 - 09:30 PM
@ bill_c I'm actually pointing out the misinformation given out by this site. Not much help to people if you give the wrong manufacturers name is it? I mean, it does actually show the Hobby Boss logo on the box and instruction sheet...so I don't understand the confusion. I don't 'keep' saying Hobby Boss, I just said it in reply to the three posts with the wrong heading.....of course, if you prefer to get crappy incorrect information that's your choice. Maybe if you contributed something a little more positive instead of making snide comments, we would all benefit.
JUL 10, 2016 - 12:14 AM
JUL 10, 2016 - 12:51 AM
No, this is the second. HB already did a Nagmachon with doghouse
JUL 10, 2016 - 01:05 AM
And the Puma. On the Centurion base too, but with Merkava parts. Michael
JUL 10, 2016 - 01:23 AM
No, this is the second. HB already did a Nagmachon with doghouse[/quote] Sorry, I thought this was a Trumpeter kit. Didn't know HB was putting it out. Kidding guys....
JUL 10, 2016 - 02:34 AM
HOBBY BOSS!! That felt Good!
JUL 10, 2016 - 02:47 AM
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