SSGToms Campaigns Guru

This is really awesome! As long as it can be modified to fit the Asuka M32. Should be a piece of cake. I can’t imagine why they made it for the Italeri kit. The Italeri kit has the wrong hull, bad molding, inaccurate details, and unusable tracks.

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barkingdigger Associate Editor

The built pic looks like it’s on an Asuka kit, so maybe just a typo?

Uncle-Heavy

Availability? Easier to find the Italeri kit?
To differentiate themselves from E.T. Model?

jfeenstra

Plus Model has released two different, separate kits of the T1E1 - 598 is for the Asuka M32 and 599 is for the Italeri kit.

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SSGToms Campaigns Guru

Excellent, thanks!

Jakko

I don’t see how this would fit only the Italeri kit and not the Asuka one. The whole roller sits on the front of the vehicle, attached to the final drive housing only. At worst, you may have to file the mounting points a little to get them to fit an Asuka kit.

(I really need to finish mine, which started out as the BoldDivision conversion kit but, well …

… let’s just say that my advice is that you spend your money elsewhere. I would definitely be interested in reading about how this one by Plus Model compares. My guess is favourably )

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Uncle-Heavy

Judging by this image I would say that the final drive housing is included:

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Jakko

I guess that answers why there are two sets: one with a housing to fit the Asuka parts, another for the Italeri hull. And I suspect their reason for doing it like this, is because it’s very hard to work out from available evidence where on the housing the supports attach (this is a main reason why mine stalled). Sure, they can provide a diagram, but plenty of modellers will be put off by having to measure out where the bits go without any locating tabs or anything.