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| Subject: | Italeri's is somewhat better |  |
| Date: | Jun 13, 2008 |
| From: | David Nickels | |
I built both kits myself. Tamiya's builds easily and fits nicely, but has less detail and more simplification. Especially the wheels and engine deck area. The worst part of the Tamiya kit is the way they dealt with the large brakcets and wing nuts on the engine access covers. They are molded in place, and overhang the sides of the tank. To get the hull part out of the mold, there are huge channels behind the details, running vertically up the hull side. This is a huge issue if you want to cut the track guards off to make the more common vehicle, as the upper hull is wiser than the lower hull, and the channels are deep. Tamiya's kit has a sparse interior, although it does have an ammo locker missing from Italeri's kit.
Italeri's kit has more and finer detail. It builds pretty well, it just has a lot of smallish parts. The roadhweels are wayyyyyy better than Tamiya's, as is the engine deck. The interior is a bit more detailed, but oddly lacks the ammo box. Neither kit has a super interior but Italeri gives the basic gun controls that aren't in Tamiyas kit. Italeris tracks are fairly well detailed but stiff.
Zvezda has also reboxed the Italeri kits. |
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