Maybe they can put a stop to all the crime running rampant in SF. 
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OOOpppsss, my snide little comment about crime in SF was in reference to the PLA ZTZ99A box art.
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Not likely to happen given Pelosi’s history:
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/28/pelosi-china-taiwan-00048352
One wonders if she’d even give a rat’s azz if San Francisco’s population wasn’t 23% Chinese.
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Yep, Andy has said that was by design between the two companies to have that Easter egg.
A foreground destroyed vehicle is not new but having the main subject is sorta new.
It’s like the Dragon Black Box folks found a new home.
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Yesterday was talking with my boss (BM owner), and he told me “when was doing the test shots, we note the hull was incorrect, so nos we are working in a new hull”, in that momment cant understand, what he talking about
, because usually I worked in airplanes research or Germán stuff… but today finnaly understand.
The picture from “eternity” how refference was my work… but when send pictures forget see the “details”. Anyway will tel him about the tracks. If anyone note another mistake, please feel free to show your opinion and if is posible add pictures. Thanks.
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Great video on War Daddy.,
I drew some inspiration from Lafayette Pool - riding high in the turret gives you great situational awareness, even if it does leave you somewhat more exposed.
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Finally someone shows war as what is is.
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Oh for joy . . . another Sherman . . . (I LIKE Shermans, I do!) but about as exciting as announcing another Tiger 1 on the way.
Now if it were a Duplex Sherman I would be reaching for my wallet!
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I seem to recall Pool paid for that awareness with his leg…
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In the link I posted about War Daddy around 34:40 mark, they were in the rear when they took an ambushed Panther hit that killed the loader with a head shot. If Pool was in the hull down position, his body would have taken the shrapnel vs his leg. One could say being further up saved his life as it killed his loader.
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IDF tank comanders adopted this in 1973, with great success on the battlefield. Many paid with their lives. Their attrition rate was quite high.
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Back on the topic of Border’s “never manufactured combination” of the Sherman 76, I have to say that I’m more than just a little skeptical of their public explanation that the photo of the pre-production test shot was a simple mistake of the builder just putting the wrong turret on the wrong hull for the photo shoot.
The box art of the kit also shows this “unnatural” hull-turret combination. It was also clearly based on (copied from?) the scene in the movie “Fury.” However, the tank in the movie was the correct large-hatch 76mm Sherman version. So, the box art was deliberately changed from the correct large-hatch to the incorrect kit design.
This all seems like a bit more than just a simple error during the publicity photo shoot.
Doesn’t mean that Border can’t (or won’t) reset and correct the kit design error, but I do question their explanation of how the thing they photographed actually came about.
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On the bright side Border does deliver entertainment like no other 1/35 kit manufacturer!
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Awww man. And here I thought, finally. After all these years, I can buy that model and cross kit it with my Italeri M32 and end up with two decent tanks. The tracks can be swapped with a third kit and fix another problem, too. But noooooooo. You guys had to all complain and screw it up for me. Thanks.
(I’m kidding. I’m already cross kitting the Italeir M32 with an Dragon M4A2 Tarawa. Some day. Maybe.)
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He’s in the house!
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Better than the “Black Label”?
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I haven’t seen it for a while but from what I recall, a great reference for uniforms and the vehicles of the time; in other words, if you’re a Cold War modeller, then worth watching - even if with the sound turned down(!)
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I wouldn’t be surprised if the upper hull error was a case of the guy building the test shot putting the wrong turret on the wrong hull. It appears Border is aware of their mistake which is hopeful.
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What is that contraption on top of the cupola’s periscopic sight, though?
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