Did anybody else catch this on Scale Mates? Revell just announced a New M1097A2 kit.
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My guess is it’s a rebox of the ICM kit. Revell and ICM already do this as the ICM Leopard 2 with crew kit uses the Revell Leopard 2 kit.
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Yup, I’m 99% certain that it’s an ICM-rebox. Scalemates is even using the same photo from the ICM box:
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Well now that’s disappointing.
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Don´t count to much on Revell of Germany. I spoke with the representantive for military kits a few yaers ago at the Nuremberg Fair. They customers are modeller buying in department stores and Bundeswehr soldiers. They don´t care for “professional” modellers like here. The moulds are made in China and the injection is done in Poland.
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I was hoping for some diversity and competition.
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Competion only happens when Tigers or Panthers are in the game. 
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The Revell guy told that they pay average 500.000€ for a mold. Image how many kits they have to sell for this costs?
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Yeah, us modern builders are kind of forgotten, but it’s getting better. We just need some people to scratch build a couple more vehicles and they will get kits.
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Very true I’m an avid modeling podcast listener and have a new respect for the development process. At least they didn’t just repop the old kit.
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No argument there. That why I build “exotic” models from scratch in the hope that somebody releases an injection kit.
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People like me who cannot scratch build due to skill issues, thank you for your efforts sir.
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You´re always welcome.
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I ordered one of them. Hoping to see something that’s not armored, like Academy’s M1151 but newly minted, unlike the Tamiya M1025/M1046. i wanted to build a standard cargo M1097A
and hope that ICM will bring an M1097, but with the 4-man soft top, like a non-armored troop command vehicle.
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Maybe some amazing CAD person will do this I also want the full truck hard top that we had on our truck in my maintenance platoon.
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Also, someone should come up with the troop seats for the kit.
Ooh! maybe 3D print the S-250 commo shelter too. Those are hard to find in 1/35.
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The ICM M1097A2 kit is quite nice. By the way, the Italeri Command HMMWV top parts fit it perfectly to make a soft top version. I plan on doing one to represent my Command HMMWV in OIF 1…eventually.
Also, ICM already does one w/the rear troop seats.
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Yeah! That’s the one i bought. “D’oh!”
They have the earlier version without the soft top or troop seats as well.
I’m still serious about getting an S-250 Commo Shelter done for it.
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Perfect Scale Modellbau has one as well that’s what I bought.
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