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MiniArt: SU-85 SPG
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Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - 11:33 AM UTC


MiniArt has some great news for the Soviet armour fan about their SU-85 SPG with interior. This offering will be available from MiniArt in July this year.

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hanb7323
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Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - 11:49 AM UTC
Gorgeous
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Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - 11:56 AM UTC
This looks pretty nice. I really like that it has a full ammunition complement. For some reason, watching this video kept reminding me of Eduard Khil's version of "I Am Glad, 'Cause I'm Finally Returning Back Home." The Trololo song.
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Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - 12:06 PM UTC
wonder if the engine can be fit inside Dragon T-34 and SU-85M.
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Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - 05:28 PM UTC
MINIART has promised it as a separate set......
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Posted: Thursday, June 16, 2016 - 12:45 AM UTC
Must try one of the new kits w/ interior from MiniArt. They look realy good!
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Posted: Thursday, June 16, 2016 - 02:10 AM UTC
Can't wait!
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Posted: Thursday, June 16, 2016 - 02:19 AM UTC
again you clone tamiya 1/35 su-85.kit.no.tm35072.
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Posted: Thursday, June 16, 2016 - 02:34 AM UTC

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again you clone tamiya 1/35 su-85.kit.no.tm35072.



Well?! When did the Tamiya kit have an interior, and all those seperate suspension parts, etc?

It looks very good in the video, how does it built up?
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Posted: Thursday, June 16, 2016 - 02:56 AM UTC
The Christie suspension springs seem to be inflexible plastic mouldings , so the the kit couldn't have a workable suspension
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Posted: Thursday, June 16, 2016 - 05:12 AM UTC

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again you clone tamiya 1/35 su-85.kit.no.tm35072.


There's as much difference between this kit and the Tamiya as there is between a Saturn V moonrocket and that bottle rocket you shoot off for July 4
M4A1Sherman
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Posted: Friday, June 17, 2016 - 01:48 PM UTC

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again you clone tamiya 1/35 su-85.kit.no.tm35072.



Have you ever built, or even bought, the old TAMIYA SU-85? If you had, then you would see the obvious differences between the ANCIENT TAMIYA SU-85 and the brand-new MINIART kit...

The MINIART SU-85, and the preceding SU-122 are NOT clones of anything that has been manufactured previously...
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Posted: Friday, June 17, 2016 - 08:15 PM UTC

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again you clone tamiya 1/35 su-85.kit.no.tm35072.


There's as much difference between this kit and the Tamiya as there is between a Saturn V moonrocket and that bottle rocket you shoot off for July 4



Yes, that's do nicely.
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Posted: Friday, June 17, 2016 - 09:25 PM UTC
i want
easyco69
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Posted: Friday, June 17, 2016 - 09:27 PM UTC
ULIX-VM- These are true Miniart Molds- much better then Tamiya's 1970's mold. Tamiya had the only SU-122 on the market for years, not now, Miniart finally stepped up to the plate. Dragon has a really nice SU-85/100 kit...I doubt it would take much work to convert or add parts to it for a SU-122.
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Posted: Friday, June 17, 2016 - 11:46 PM UTC

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again you clone tamiya 1/35 su-85.kit.no.tm35072.



M4A1Sherman
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Posted: Saturday, June 18, 2016 - 07:34 PM UTC

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ULIX-VM- These are true Miniart Molds- much better then Tamiya's 1970's mold. Tamiya had the only SU-122 on the market for years, not now, Miniart finally stepped up to the plate. Dragon has a really nice SU-85/100 kit...I doubt it would take much work to convert or add parts to it for a SU-122.



Hi, David and everyone else!

I kit-bashed an SU-122 quite a few years ago by mating a TAMIYA SU-122 Upper Hull to a DRAGON T-34/85 Lower Hull and Suspension. (I had an extra T-34/85 on hand at the time).

There was a bit of fiddling around with it to make everything fit properly, but all-in-all, it was worth the extra effort...

I'm wondering if MINIART will go "the whole hog" by doing all of the major Russo/Soviet Tanks and AFVs, along with model kits of Tanks and AFVs representing other nations, produced in the same calibre (interiors, "indy links" and such) as their new SU-series kits..? I'm betting that if they would do so, they'd have a pretty wide segment of the modelling community at their beck and call...
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