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CMK: ARL-44 Resin Kit
Merlin
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Posted: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 - 05:59 AM UTC


Special Hobby have sent details of a new full resin kit in 1:72 of the French ARL-44 heavy tank coming soon in their CMK range.

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Posted: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 - 09:03 AM UTC
This looks great and appealing and everything, but truly, a plastic kit for just 10-15 quid would be better.
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Posted: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 - 06:17 PM UTC
Yeah, it would be nice if the recent trend in 1/35 scale (issuing more obscure vehicles as plastic kits) would carry over to 1/72. There are some real cool tanks in 1/35 I would love to see in 1/72. And as we have seen this could work as a business decision; people do buy other models than Tigers, Shermans and T-34s. We now do have obscure, Hungarian tanks in plastic, and I would love to have experimental heavy tanks (M6, T29, T34, etc), tank destroyers (T92) and all sorts of interwar light tanks in this scale. I guess we have much to thank to World of Tanks...



There is a Cromwell Model kit of it already, but it is quite difficult to get. I guess CMK's added value will be accessibility...

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Posted: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 - 02:54 PM UTC
THis kit only needs two things as far as I am concerned: offer it in 1/35 and make it in styrene. Interesting beastie.
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