Thanks for the clarification Rob, I know you like the 1/72 scales.
M1garand, I'm glad your excited, this is what it's all about. In my first GB I met alot of members and had a great time. That has been the case in all of them. It's neat sharing problems and solutions with one another. It's also an incentive to finish a build, though I failed on the other GB I started (Elefant). I intend to finish it up before this one though. I'm pretty excited to be back building again, much happened in the last year.
I checked the AM for my build and wasn't too intrigued, so I'm going out of box with Tamiya vinyl tracks instead of Italeri's and maybe a few other pieces from my Marder III M if they will work. It will be a cheap build, especially since I got it off of ebay. Of course I'm cringing a bit since Dragon may release one down the road after their upcoming Pz 38(t).
Some recommendations from my previous Italeri builds:
- Sturmtiger-great kit with some interior and engine details. Comes with zimmerit. Supposed to be more accurate than Tamiya.
- Chaffee
- Crusader III-really nice kit
- M4A1-pretty good kit except tracks
- Opel Maultier halftrack-something different and you could add a 20mm flak to it.
- RSO tractor w/pak 40- neat little combo kit. The 75mm lacks a bit of detail.
- Duece and a half- if you can find one
I'd love to see someone build one of those LVT's.