khurasanminiatures | 21 Oct 2014 2:59 p.m. PST |
At long last some of our out-of-stock tank kits have been added back to the store and are once again available. We've got a tank for everybody here!
M34 Taylor American Superheavy Tank (late 1940s United States (this is the actual T-34 development, speculatively fielded as a superheavy tank)) Available here: link
T-90A "Valdimir" Russian MBT (1990s-present day Russian Federation) Available here: link
Red Banner Medium Tank (26th Century Nova Respublik) Available here: link Thanks to all of you who so patiently waited for these to return! |
artbraune | 21 Oct 2014 3:42 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the update Jon! |
Micropanzer | 21 Oct 2014 4:00 p.m. PST |
you better go ahead and place your next restock order these are going to fly out the door. |
khurasanminiatures | 22 Oct 2014 5:35 a.m. PST |
Actually the Taylors are flying out the door! |
Umpapa | 22 Oct 2014 7:46 a.m. PST |
Very nice! "Vladimir" Putin not "Valdimir". Like Vlad Dracula, You know. |
khurasanminiatures | 22 Oct 2014 7:51 a.m. PST |
I know how to spell it, as I think the product page indicates. It was a typo -- we can't all be perfect. By the way, it's not named after Putin, it's named after Vladimir Potkin, the designer of the T-90, who had just died. |
Heinz Good Aryan | 22 Oct 2014 8:00 a.m. PST |
i have five taylors and i love to game them against king tigers. you're not the big boy on the block anymore kingy. lol!!! |
BlackWidowPilot | 23 Oct 2014 12:22 p.m. PST |
Every time I look at that M34 I think what an abso fab basis for a sci fi conversion it will make… must work a couple into the budget…. EDIT: Jon, on the M34 kit, is the main gun barrel separate from the mantlet, or are they cast as one piece? I ask because if it's separate, I can slide plastic beads down the barrel and glue them in place as magnetic driver rings, converting the main gun into a gauss rifle….
Leland R. Erickson Metal Express metal-express.net |
artbraune | 23 Oct 2014 2:02 p.m. PST |
@Leland – the barrel is separate and while the barrel tapers – you should still be able to fit your beads onto it. |
Lion in the Stars | 23 Oct 2014 5:34 p.m. PST |
Been meaning to ask: I know the M34 was further developed into the M103 heavy tank, but how different is Khurasan's model from the M103? As in, how much work would it take to turn Khurasan's M34 into an M103? |
panzersaurkrautwerfer | 23 Oct 2014 6:27 p.m. PST |
Re: M103 They're dramatically different tanks. The M103 could best be described as a very heavy M-48 (sharing the same basic hull profile) while the T-29/T-34 (same project, but the T-29 mounted a 155 MM gun, while the T-24 mounted a smaller, but still crazy by WW2 standards 120 MM gun) was distinctly a World War Two creation. Question: So how's the M34 look besides Battlefront products in terms of proportion? They're both 15 MM obviously, but like if the hatches and machine guns are widely different it'll detract from my plan to have a M34 as part of a hypothetical 1947 campaign with the rest of my BF stuff. |
BlackWidowPilot | 23 Oct 2014 11:06 p.m. PST |
artbraune, thank you for that bit of intel. I clocked the barrel taper, but as you said, it's not going to be a problem… Mwahahahahaaa!! Leland R. Erickson Metal Express metal-express.net |
Lion in the Stars | 24 Oct 2014 11:50 a.m. PST |
@panzersauerkrautwerfer: OK, thanks for that. Still means I'm likely to get the M34 eventually (I've got a LOT of Weird War 2 stuff), but I think I want an M103 first… |