Saw today the 2004 Italeri catalogue and they announced an Abrams with full interior

Italeri is going to be doing the Interior in resin(unlikely to me) or
are they simply packaging AM resin parts with the Kit?

Funny, I looked at the same listings in the latest FSM and 'saw' Italeri projecting to release this summer a 'horse drawn convoy'. Whatever that means. But add a horse team pulling a PlusModel 'field kitchen' and one would have the makings of an intersting diorama? Never know what'll interest ya, huh?

Glenn

sounds cool

its just a reboxed Dragon kit with a Kirin engine set
its going to sell over here for £34

anything similar for our trusty challenger caveman?

i just hope J-Hulks Tamiya Challenger 2 is true and soon
i havnt seen any engine packs for the Chally, if there was im sure it would have been done by Accurate Armour

Great news about the Abrams -- so it's just coming with an engine? Hardly seems like an interior to me.

Tamiya is doing the C2 after all? Well, of cource, Trumpeter is now doing a Telic upgrade for its C2, and the upgrade has also corrected many of the kit's wheel deficiencies -- ironic, as you can hardly see the wheels on a Telic C2 in the first place.

If I wanted to do a C2 badly, I would bite the bullet and do the Accurate one. Those are the kits the Vickers and MoD guys have on their desks. Though Tamiy will no doubt give the expensive resin kit from AA a run for its money. Thank you, Tamiya-san!

Hmm, I don't know much about Dragon kits, except the one that I built completely sucked! It was the Scud missle launcher.
But maybe that was just that kit. So if this is a reboxed Dragon, I heard that they're actually fairly good, so maybe this isn't a bad thing

That may have been an older Dragon kit. I just finished a Dragon Panther early A and I was quite pleased with the kit. I too tried building one of their earlier kits -- the M1A1 with mine plow -- and found it to be much too fiddly, pieces breaking as I was trying to get them off the sprue.

I have never had a problem with Dragon. They have all come out fine when I build them. There M1A1 with interior is a great kit, if it is what Italeri is using, it should be even better with an engine.