Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 08:41 AM UTC
Part three of our news release on Voyager covers the Bradley infantry fighting vehicle. Voyager has released two new Photo etched sets for this vehicle aimed specifically at the Tamiya offering in 1/35th scale.
Firstly I will mention that one complaint levelled at Voyager with every new release is the fact that they always show all of the available sets they make for the model in question in the supplied pictures, in order to overcome this I have included pictures of the other sets mentioned at the end of this news release. I hope this will keep everyone happy.

The first of these sets is PE35442 which can best be described as a good all round upgrade offering. The set consists of;
• Ten photo etched frets.
• Five different sizes of rods and wires.
• Eleven resin components.
• A sheet of metallic transfers (I believe).

The second set PE35443 replaces the skirt on the Bradley and consists of four identical photo etched frets.
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No, the A/c units are not linked to Duke or Chemeloen systems. I have seen very few with the A/C unit installed. None here at Ft Steart have them and we just got fielded new M2A3s last summer. Yes, the ERA was installed on most Bradleys in Iraq. Verlinden, Blast, and Legend all make ERA Sets for them. I have the Blast set and it is very nice. The legend set looks good too. Verlinden's set is pretty bad and missing the rear parts and some others. It is less detailed than Blast's and Legend's sets too. I agree with Rob that there have been a few good Bradley sets already available. I personally prefer the Legend sets. The last piece we need is a good resin interior for them. Hopefully there will be one on the way soon.
DEC 01, 2011 - 09:00 AM
Thanks Gino, that's what I was hoping for.
DEC 01, 2011 - 09:07 AM
Here's a 4th ID M2A3 training at Camp Buehring in Kuwait back in October 2010. : Here are some other pics I had already posted here (in 2009 ! ) : I agree with Gino about A/C units. I've got a lot of Duke-fitted Bradleys pics (and only two with Chameleon, BTW) and 99 % of them don't show A/C units... Frenchy
DEC 01, 2011 - 09:07 AM
Frenchy- great pics. The top one has the additional armor over the skirts I mentioned. Are all the M2A3s with Duke and ERA sand colored? Any pics of the ERA/Duke without the A/Cs? Or are those boxes on either side of the rear door something else?
DEC 01, 2011 - 09:19 AM
No, the color depends on what unit they belong to and where that unit is regionally aligned. For example, 3ID, 1 CAV, and 4ID are all aligned with SE Asia and have sand vehicles. 1AR, 1ID, 2ID, 101ABN, 82d ABN, 10 MTN, and 25ID are all aligned for Europe and/or Korea and their vehicles are 3 color NATO camo. Vehicles are not usually repainted sand when they deploy to Iraq or A'stan either. With that said, I have only seen the ERA and Duke parts in sand, but I'm sure if we were fighting in Europe, you would see dark green for these parts too. Here is a NATO camo Brad with sand ERA and no A/C units.
DEC 01, 2011 - 09:30 AM
Nice, thanks- I really appreciate it. I will grab that pic when I get home tonight. So it wouldn't be unrealistic to build one like that and add the Duke antennas then as long as I made sure any markings were from the units you mentioned?
DEC 01, 2011 - 09:32 AM
You've got it. I have plans to do one the same as well...along with all the other projects I have planned....someday.....
DEC 01, 2011 - 09:40 AM
I know the feeling! Thanks for all the help
DEC 01, 2011 - 09:40 AM
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