Magic Factory reports that their new M7A3 is now on stock!
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/m7a3-bfist-bradley-ready
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/m7a3-bfist-bradley-ready
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Awesome. I’ll be getting one.
Yep, me as well, definitely.
One more for my Bradley stash
I’ll build it as an A4, but what the heck.
Am I seeing the clear sprue parts pre-masked? 
Very helpful if so. Is that new or has this company been doing that for some time? 
The masks are precut but you do still need to apply them yourself.
ok, that makes sense.
Showing up on eBay and at Asian sellers now.
1/35 M7a3 Bfist for sale | eBay
Looks like they could be pre-orders though as the delivery dates are not until mid-Nov at the earliest.
I’ve started my A4 version even though I don’t have the BFIST kit in hand yet. Waiting to see the upgraded targeting box from Steve at Model Monkey. It will be an improvement over his old one. Perhaps for those who have extra Bradley kits lying about it’s another option.
I’ll just have the rear compartment in mine, These interiors are like 3 in 1 kits themselves - turret, rerar compartment, driver’s compartment. You can sort of use them as you like, In fact, if you cast the rubber floor mat as I have, you don’t even need Meng interiors.
I received my M7A3 BFIST in the mail today. It looks great. The M3A3 and BFIST parts are on two new sprues (R and S). The parts are all injection molded, not 3D printed as earlier reported. They look vary nice and are cleanly molded.
R Sprue (M3A3 parts)
The R sprue also has a new rear wall for the turret basket that has mounting points for a fifth ammo can holder, and a fifth ammo can holder on the sprue.
S Sprue (BFIST parts)
The kit is actually a 3 - in - 1 as well. It has all the parts from the M2A3 kit (minus sprue B for the A4 parts and the M-SHORAD parts), plus the M3A3 hull parts (hull-top rear armor plates and hatch), and BFIST targeting head parts for the M7A3 BFIST. With what is in the box, you can build either an M2A3 IFV, M3A3 CFV, or M7A3 BFIST. If you were to add the B sprue from the M2A3 / M2A4 / M-SHORAD kit, you could build any of the above in their A4 configurations as well.
M2A3 / M2A4 / M-SHORAD instructions to build an M2A3 or M3A3. You need these to build the TOW box parts.
My guess is that Magic Hobby will release either an M3A2 ODS SA CFV, M3A3 CFV, or M3A4 CFV kit soon with what is has in the box and available from earlier kits.
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I myself came home to some happy news tonight as well. A delivery from our own Jaques Duquette. Among other things (much more on that later) is his BFIST conversion. I may have to HTFU (Chopper term) and ignore my detached bicep to get some modeling done tomorrow, At any rate, some simple measurements on your part would be splendiferous.
Five simple measurements, in millimeters, of the part:
Front face - height x width
Rear face - height x width
Overall length - from front face to rear face.
I can compare them with actual measurements for the good of the community.
I have already discovered one part that Jaques got right, and Magic Factory did not.
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Measurements of the Magic Factory parts.
Front face - height x width = 17.4 mm x 17.0 mm
Rear face - height x width = 15.5 mm x 13.0 mm
Overall length - from front face to rear face = 31.9 mm
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That was fast. Thank you.
Pretty close on front and rear faces - nothing to get excited about. But too long to the point it might be noticeable. A tad over 10%. Like the difference between 1/35 and 1/32 scale.
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I can live with that difference. Both the Model Monkey and Jacque’s version are longer than the kit one (larger face and rear as well).
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