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Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 11:11 AM UTC
Up next from Fine Molds are four kits depicting vehicles from both the Second World War and the modern era.
  • FM52 Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Light Truck (MAT-equipped)
  • FM53 Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Type 60 Armored Vehicle (MAT-equipped)
  • FM54 Imperial Army Self-propelled Gun (Ho-ro)
  • FM55 Imperial Army Type 3 Medium Tank (Chi-nu)
All the above are in 1/35 scale. Release dates are scheduled within June to July 2017.

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I guess the pictured Jeep is a Mitsubishi Model J24A "Type 73" (based on the CJ-3B) A few more pics here Here's the kit variant, fitted with two Type 64 anti-tank missile pods : H.P.
APR 11, 2017 - 03:40 PM
I see a Godzilla Diorama in the making with that JGSDF MAT vehicle.... yummy!
APR 11, 2017 - 03:41 PM
So using the old Dragon theory that the vehicles in the background would be released soon is that a half-track behind the Type-3?
APR 11, 2017 - 06:42 PM
The Type 3 is not new and was released around 8 years ago. This release probably has the new extra parts for the basic hull interior that they are adding to some of the other Type 97 based kits. So I doubt the halftrack is in the near future. But who knows?
APR 11, 2017 - 06:53 PM
A side note on the Type 3 kit is this: -- (再生産&履帯リニューアル)Running it through an online translator results into: "Reproduction & Crawlband Renewal". I'll take "crawlband" as reference to tracks, and looking at the most recent Fine Molds re-releases, the rubber band tracks were replaced with link-and-length ones. So this may be one (if not all) of the improvements to this upcoming kit.
APR 11, 2017 - 07:12 PM
"Reproduction" might refer to an upgrade in the tooling. Maybe new parts, but maybe just improved tooling on the original parts.
APR 11, 2017 - 07:42 PM
Hah! It's a Japanese version of the GAZ "baby carriage"! How cool! Godzilla, here we come! :-)
APR 11, 2017 - 09:41 PM
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