What should the next Armortek kit be?

Chang · Post by **Chang** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:46 pm

Hi fellows, I have a feeling that the Hetzer probably is the answer.............
, whether you like it or not.

Lerh Chang

Kent Wiik · Post by **Kent Wiik** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 3:27 pm

Oh no not a Hetzer!
Please give us something new there isnÂ´t on the market today.
The 38T would be a good one.
But I think an upgraded rerelease of the Panther is more likely.

/Kent

clive Lockwood · Post by **clive Lockwood** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:22 pm

Panther doesn't need upgrading, Fantastic kit as it is.

Richie Wignall · Post by **Richie Wignall** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:00 pm

Hi Guys

Hetzer ! a nice small tank, and i would say easy to make aswell, so a very quick kit

and proberly good for the bank in these very hard times

.

Richie

Jim Fowler · Post by **Jim Fowler** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:28 pm

I like the Panzer 38t, as it is a smaller tank. I would like it over the larger tank due to size and potential cost. And, it seems a lot of focus has been on the Tigers, Panther, etc., etc already. So, I am interested in something "less heavy" and fresh.....

While I would like a Panzer 4, that is about as heavy as I want to get in the forseeable future - in tanks. And, I am not even think about 2010. I mean, its not just about the Armortek kit and option packs. One has to consider the detail parts and getting them.

If you think about it, building one of these tanks is a complex, long-term project......a bit different from throwing together a 1/35th model....with aspects other hobbyists don't encounter or have to navigate.... Our segment of the hobby is a bit unusual and few think about when here; and most don't see from the sidelines...
(I told one of our 1/35th brothers on the Missing-Lynx forum that I have been waiting over a year for some of the parts for my Panzer 3 in passing and he flipped. SORRY - I think I bursted his bubble on getting into our corner of the hobby!)

Actually, it seems like more detail parts are available for Tigers and Panthers... But still, I would like something liter on my pocket book and my back (And, think of poor Gill -

)

PS - if Mark and Gill elect to go soft-side, I would like to submit the Krupp-Protze truck for consideration -

Jim Fowler · Post by **Jim Fowler** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:34 pm

And, may I also put forth this...

could Mark and Gill look into a way of just offering up just lowers (hulls, no turrets) for kits like P3s, P4s and the P38t (when you decide to offer it) - I think finding a way to cost effectively carter directly to those wanting to build variants is worth looking at.....

food for thought.

Adrian Harris · Post by **Adrian Harris** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:47 pm

> Krupp-Protze truck

That's just been announced by an Asian manufacturer. I don't know whether it is RC-able or not but it seems a waste to have two companies producing the same model. Same with the Hetzer, as the Spearhead one has recently been resurrected.

If people are interested in a smaller tank that's covered in rivets, how about the Italian medium tanks and their associated Semoventes ?

Adrian

Stewart Ashton · Post by **Stewart Ashton** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:14 pm

Italian mmmmmmmmmm

or a type 97

Regards Stewart

Nice size and plenty of rivits

Richie Wignall · Post by **Richie Wignall** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 8:48 pm

Hi Jim

Hulls

thats a great idea

sturmtiger

Richie

Paul Morris · Post by **Paul Morris** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:27 pm

Hi fellas.
I like the 38 t idea with quite a few variants to go for, and i suppose it has to be a new model not one done by anyone else as has been said so even though i would like one the Hetzer is probably no good

and i think {Richie} i am right in saying someone has already done the Sturmtiger as an add on top? to your Tiger its quite a while ago now but i do remember seeing it on the old forum....possibly Mike Stannard??? not sure, other than that i would like to see a re run of the panzer 4.
Cheers Paul

Larry Vejtasa · Post by **Larry Vejtasa** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:28 am

Like the Hetzer...relatively simple..the possibility for other models 38t, Marder series..spanning a wide time range. Or a Stug III based on an existing kit

Larry Vejtasa · Post by **Larry Vejtasa** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:29 am

Or a Lynx

David Makaras · Post by **David Makaras** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:49 am

Chang wrote:Hi fellows, I have a feeling that the Hetzer probably is the answer.............
Lerh Chang

I've always liked the Hetzer. It was a good simple design (no turret complexity) for mass production. It being a smaller target was a great advantage too.

It was would be an easy build/production and inexpensive model, I imagine.
It would be nice to have in my collection.

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Steve Stuart · Post by **Steve Stuart** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:51 pm

Hi All
I have an interest in a Universal carrier, but what I would go for is a DUKW that works!
If anybody knows of a 1/6 model out there already please let me know, otherwise a good alternative to a tank that could appeal to the model boat fraternity to make for economic production numbers.

Steve

Derek Attree · Post by **Derek Attree** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 11:18 am

Hi Guys
As a model boat man of many years 38 or more.
I don't see a metal DUKW working, eg floating and driving.
There is a fiber glass hull in a smaller size 1:10 and it is
very hard to get it to work as the conversion
from road wheels to prop drive is hard to do by radio control.
I would be interesting but the cost to do it properly would be astronomical.

Derek

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