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W-Model: Braille MDK-2 Rapid Digger and More
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Posted: Saturday, April 11, 2020 - 05:43 PM UTC


New kits this April from W-Model as well as re-releases.

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Posted: Sunday, April 12, 2020 - 09:23 AM UTC
Fascinating stuff that I've never seen before -and would greatly appreciate if someone offered them in 1/35 styrene! Hint! Hint! Trumpeter!
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Posted: Sunday, April 12, 2020 - 11:06 AM UTC

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Fascinating stuff that I've never seen before -and would greatly appreciate if someone offered them in 1/35 styrene! Hint! Hint! Trumpeter!


There is hope. Trumpeter already have a similar trench digger / engineering vehicle: the BTM-3

This one digs a slit trench and the BAT-M digs a ditch to the full width of the vehicle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLIcuWUUv5Q

Both of these dig behind them when moving forward.
Nowadays there is also the MDK-3 which digs a full width trench going backwards
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Posted: Monday, April 13, 2020 - 09:30 AM UTC
These are fascinating subjects in 1/72! Any sense of the quality of the kits themselves?
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Posted: Monday, April 13, 2020 - 09:50 AM UTC
From what I remember of the only W-Model kit I own I would say that the resin casting is up there among the best. I think he uses computers to design the parts and 3D-printing for the masters.
Some photos of parts produced by W-Model back in 2014 can be seen in this News-post:
https://armorama.kitmaker.net/news/14168

I would call the casting excellent but that is only my opinion

/ Robin
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