QUOTE: Originally posted by nmayhew
academy's turret is totally the wrong shape i believe, on that it is symmetrical; the real thing wasn't on account of the 88mm gun housing and the like.
that said, you can only really spot it if looking directly from above.
the interior is pretty cool i muct admit!
regds,
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Unless I am mistaken, all the current Tiger I kits, no matter the manufacturer, have symmetrical turrets. If you want to have a correct, non-symmetrical turret, you have to go after market. This is a rivet counter type problem, IMO.
I built (actually, it's still on the back of the bench pending the finish of a couple of other kits) the Tamiya Mid Tiger, and found it to be a great build.
The Academy Tigers (comparing the exterior only version to the Tamiya) have a lot more parts to them than the Tamiya kits do. They also come with both rubber band tracks as well as indipendent links, so you can make your mind up which way to go. For the life of me, I can't remember which the Tamiya Mid kit comes with. I'll try and remember to look at lunch.
The author of the new Tiger book by Ampersand used nothing but Tamiya (with the exception of the Tiger (P)) kits for the models he made for the book. This may have been more for continuity than anything else, or because of personal preference. There have been several of the forum members that have built the Academy kit and they've all been pretty happy with it.
You might want to look back through the old thread about the Tiger Mid Production group build. There is a LOT of information there. (Most of us, if not all, built the Tamiya kit.) Here's the link for that topic, and I "popped" it so it would come back up to the list of recent posts.
http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6369
Good luck.
Bill
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