This really made my day. I'm sooooo looking forward to these!!!

John

Just the bare blog posts so far that I can see...

More wishes- E-100 Flakzwilling (good one for Trumpeter)

Just read on Missing Lynx that at the Tokyo Show they may have announced plastic E-50 and E-75.

No pictures yet that I can find. But the blogger on the DML forums seems to have said the same thing as well.

Rivet counting on models of hypothetical vehicles seems somehow ridiculous.

Rivet counting on models of hypothetical vehicles seems somehow ridiculous.

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Rivet counting on models of hypothetical vehicles seems somehow ridiculous.

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I agree too. Why people get excited about tanks that would have killed more allies is beyond me.

It surely is welcome news to have the E50/E75 available in plastic, definitely much cheaper than their resin counteparts. It would open opportunities as a plaftorm for other what-if projects. Am curious as to how Trumpeter will come up with the hull arrangement as all the pics available (what I have seen so far) are H.L. Doyle's side-view drawings

On that note the E50/E75 drawings referred by the link above would be off from what''s been on available literature. IIRC the designs (as drawn by H.L. Doyle) had both front and rear drives. Panzer Tracts though states that the choice was a rear drive.

Anyways the good news is that it will be available soon. Hope they come up with the Lowe as well.

Cheers

Just read on Missing Lynx that at the Tokyo Show they may have announced plastic E-50 and E-75.

No pictures yet that I can find. But the blogger on the DML forums seems to have said the same thing as well.

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Just read on Missing Lynx that at the Tokyo Show they may have announced plastic E-50 and E-75.

No pictures yet that I can find. But the blogger on the DML forums seems to have said the same thing as well.

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Here is the on paper shot of there releases. March 2010 so far,

http://2nd.geocities.jp/massgtgun/_gl_images_/PA091016.JPG

From what I see, they have the turret wrong on the E-50 and I thought the turret for the E-75 was the same as the E-50, not an Tiger B one with the longer 88mm L/100.

The turret from the E-75 could make for an interesting upgrade to a Tiger B, now only if they get the turret right, it could also make for an excellent July 45 Tiger B Upgrade basis as well.

The turret for the E-50 I believe should have the 88mm as shown in book "Germany's Panther Tank", so I guess I continue with my resin / plastic edition of it.

I agree too. Why people get excited about tanks that would have killed more allies is beyond me.

Why people get excited about tanks that would have killed more allies is beyond me.

Here is the on paper shot of there releases. March 2010 so far,

http://2nd.geocities.jp/massgtgun/_gl_images_/PA091016.JPG

From what I see, they have the turret wrong on the E-50 and I thought the turret for the E-75 was the same as the E-50, not an Tiger B one with the longer 88mm L/100.

The turret from the E-75 could make for an interesting upgrade to a Tiger B, now only if they get the turret right, it could also make for an excellent July 45 Tiger B Upgrade basis as well.

The turret for the E-50 I believe should have the 88mm as shown in book "Germany's Panther Tank", so I guess I continue with my resin / plastic edition of it.

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Here is the on paper shot of there releases. March 2010 so far,

http://2nd.geocities.jp/massgtgun/_gl_images_/PA091016.JPG

From what I see, they have the turret wrong on the E-50 and I thought the turret for the E-75 was the same as the E-50, not an Tiger B one with the longer 88mm L/100.

The turret from the E-75 could make for an interesting upgrade to a Tiger B, now only if they get the turret right, it could also make for an excellent July 45 Tiger B Upgrade basis as well.

The turret for the E-50 I believe should have the 88mm as shown in book "Germany's Panther Tank", so I guess I continue with my resin / plastic edition of it.

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Awesome- thanks for the link!

Also, I haven't seen that Tiger B turret concept, either... looks like Trumpeter is taking the 'muscular' route!

ps... that E-75 was inspired by the Popy Panzer Projekts gashpon.

http://www.mikes-tanks.com/images/RProjPanther01a.jpg

I think the 2 different turrets are purely a marketing thing. If you announce the E-50 and E-75 as seperate kits, you kind of need to make them different, but from the research the E-50 and E-75 are of the same design, just different armor thickness is all, so how do you model that? The next best thing is to use the same hull for both and use different turrets.

I kind of like the E-75 turret as it does have some other useful uses outside of the E-75.

Their E-100 is quite laughable and copying a turret design directly from someone else without crediting, that's quite bad behaviour, worse than anyone can acuse DML of doing

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Their E-100 is quite laughable and copying a turret design directly from someone else without crediting, that's quite bad behaviour, worse than anyone can acuse DML of doing

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Mike Rinaldi and Trumpeter came to an amicable agreement over that issue within a couple weeks of the initial announcement:

http://www.network54.com/Forum/47211/thread/1195330528/Trumpeter%27s+E100+Ausf.+B+issue+resolved%21

-Doug

The 88mm KwK 43 L/71 Schmalturm had been mocked up in wood at Daimler Benz, proving that handling the long ammo was cumbersome.

Purely my own idea, but adding a rear turret extension like on the Tiger-B turret would provide some extra stowage space.

As to the hulls, well, those seem to match the HL-Doyle drawings. One could even get some variations on the E-75 as the running gear layout could differ depending on which company was involded, Weserhütte or Adler and the latter also had different approaches. An E-75 with 6 roadwheels was an option.

The E-75 turret shown on the Trumpeter board does match the July '45 Tiger-B drawings in the VK-4502 book by Jentz, so that would be a nice addition to the Tiger-B variations collection

But having not yet read Jentz' Paper-Panzers PT-volumes, I don't know exactly what new info he has, I do have the Spezial Panzer book by Spielberger.

I do get the idea that Trumpeter just took the E-series into plastic for that, to have them in plastic and cut off the expensive resin offerings. Their E-100 is quite laughable and copying a turret design directly from someone else without crediting, that's quite bad behaviour, worse than anyone can acuse DML of doing