They are Russian companies competing for the same market, even I am not sure how an Interior KT is supposed to be a play for the market fir Miniart Russian tanks.[/quote] Got to think marketing and target audiences and not so literally. Miniart is creating a market for tanks with interiors so ICM is going for that Russian market for model tanks with interiors, not necessarily Russian tanks. Or ICM could be going back to its roots because the first tank kits they did had partial interiors and were Russian and are still available in Eastern Europe.

MiniArt is a Ukrainian company, not a Russian

They are Russian companies competing for the same market, even I am not sure how an Interior KT is supposed to be a play for the market fir Miniart Russian tanks.[/quote] Both from Ukraine. Big difference these days.

That depends on if you consider the Crimean peninsula a dejure part of Russia

Way too political for these discussions. Will it be offered with a transparent hull, I wonder. Detail looks okay.

Looks like CAD to me

AFV offered a T34 a few years back that had a transparent upper and turret so it is possible and solves that whole "now how do I display the interior"? thing.

Forgive me. I was referring more to market base than specific ethnic background. Being descended from Russians forcibly resettled in Poland by the tsars to "russianize" it, I understand. The political borders over the years have been ambiguous in regard to the actual people living there so I used "Russian " as a general term for the various groups of the area.

Considering the price-point with their other kits this one should be an easay addition to the stash.