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the doog Wouldn't be surprised if they re released the old Italeri-Testors kit. Academy has a history of buying old molds and re-poppin' them.
Wouldn't be surprised if they re released the old Italeri-Testors kit. Academy has a history of buying old molds and re-poppin' them.
But why would they in this case? Academy has a very nice M36 Jackson that is basically their own original turret on their pretty nice M10 series hull (kits #1392, 1393, 1395, 1397). They've been doing the swap out with the turrets on this hull, so now they're just swapping out hulls instead.
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They also have their own M4A3 from their decent Sherman line.
Slap a decent 76 mm turret on the kit and you could have 'FURY' movie tank.
The "other forum" has a link to a quickie look-see, it's supposed to be a collection of different Academy sprues from the M4A3 "Easy Eight" and M36 kits. Given the known warts with those kits, it's actually not a bad deal if reasonably priced. All in all, if my desired result was the -B1 and one came my way cheap, I'd jump on it. Academy's VVSS suspension is actually pretty good, and with a little love, you could turn out a pretty fair model.
Apprentice rivet counter.
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