Trumpeter M1A1 Kit

It was OK for its time, but has been bypassed by more recent offerings. What they did was to rebox all their previous Abrams variants into one mass boxing. Previously, each kit contained a sprue or two that was different. Now all those different sprues are boxed together.

Not bad kit, but it is not unbuildable.

i agree with rob. i have all the individual kits in the stash and...they're not bad.

As the others have said, its not a bad kit, just not the latest and greatest.  Here is a side by side review by Pawel on it and other older Abrams kits.  Currently, the best Abrams kits are the Dragon M1A1 AIM and M1A2 SEP.

Thanks for the info. Considering the kit for all the extras that come with it.

Gino,

Thank you for the info on the Dragon kits. Was considering one of them to do as one of the tanks from our armor units here in PA.

If you're trying to match tanks, the two best Dragon tanks are very late, post OIF invasion tanks. The Trumpeter kits represent tanks that came into service just prior to Desert Storm thru the 1990s (Balkans, Kosovo, etc.). Tamiya's original M1A1 is a good representative of some of the initial batches of M1A1s, most of which went to Desert Storm.

Best to find out what type of M1A1 they use.