Model kits aren’t their primary income stream; they sell more RC stuff and other hobby products. Part of the reason they don’t maximize their molds, as they don’t feel an urgency to do so. They’ve had the FAMO kit for decades but it took Trumpeter to give us more versions.
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Oh whoa! Great news for me! One of my favorite tanks. Will definitely build a few of these.
The AFV Club, Bronco, and Italeri M24s just dropped off my Want List.
Zooming in, it looks like the idler wheels have mud relief holes. Big yay for that.
To me, those look like link and length tracks. Happy with that, too. Faster build means more time painting! Oh, wait. NooOOOoOOOOoooO!
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Well a no from me as I have 2 of the AFV Club kits a British boxing and a French Indo-China boxing.
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Still no lip on the main wheels though. Almost everyone is doing it these days.
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Wonderful news. I built the Bronco offering, which was a nightmare. I still have the Italeri repackaged Tamiya offering. This new mold will make me exultant since M24 is such an iconic tank.
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Based on a quick survey of M24s, there are variations in the road wheels. Some tanks have the kind chosen by the people at Tamiya. Are they correct for World War II M24s, specifically the decal options that will appear in the model? Dunno.
If I recall correctly, there are also variations in the sprockets.
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Oh, really? Thanks 
I didn’t think it was that one — the main thing I remember from that is the grey M47s (Though as I recall, those are also in The Bridge at Remagen, again as German tanks firing on the Americans approaching the Rhine bridge?)
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Bridge at Remagen has M24’s standing in for M26 Pershings 
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Yes, the Spanish M47 painted as German Tigers in the Battle of the Bulge with Henry Fonda. You can possibly stream it for free on Tubi with ads. The tank battle was M24’s trying to slow down and waste Tiger gas before they make the fuel depot.
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No “German” tanks in “Remagen”. They had 88s on a hilltop firing on the Americans.
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That too
ISTR “German” M47s on high ground firing down at the Americans. Or am I again confusing two movies that I both last saw 30+ years ago?
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You’re mixing them up. “Remagen” is worth seeing again. As for “Battle of the Bulge” fast forward to this:Panzerlied Full Song - Search Videos
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I should probably rewatch them someday when I have absolutely nothing better to do 
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I agree with your assessment, I probably could not sit thru “Battle of the Bulge” today if I tried without falling asleep. “Remagen” has a couple of dead spots too but I think overall it’s a much more entertaining movie…
My go to WW2 stuff is the stuff that Spielberg and Hanks did for HBO, both of those shows are fantastic and head and shoulders above “Saving Private Ryan”
Surprisingly, the comedy “Kelly’s Heroes” has some scenes in it that lead me to believe that they had a solid WW2 advisor on set when they filmed that movie. Some of those scenes feel authentic even with the silliness.
One of my favorite scenes is when they set up an ambush outside the German barracks with the one guy set up with a BAR inside of a house overlooking the exit to the building that the Germans are in, there are a couple of scenes like that in that movie that look really well choreographed and have a realistic feel to them.
Another favorite is that scene with the Yugoslavian (?) M4A3E4s 76mm tanks rolling towards them in a giant column. The only way something like that could be filmed today would be with CGI.
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I have to agree about Kelly’s Heroes. There are some really good scenes that just scream ‘real’ to me - the minefield and the assault with the church bell tower especially. On the other hand, watching Oddball and his crew kinda pulls me out of the movie a bit; I think they are better suited for a Viet Nam war movie than WWII.
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The anachronistic nature of oddball’s character doesn’t detract from the film for me. It’s the engine behind the comedy in the film. I about piss my pants every time I see him have the silly stare down with the SS tanker. The movie was slightly irreverent of WW2 and war in general. It was made for young audiences who’d grown up with WW2 veterans as parents and were opposed to the Vietnam war. By some miracle it managed to pull the comedy off without being disrespectful. It’s a strange cocktail that has some of the best WW2 action sequences.
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I agree. Odball is what lifts the film from “just another heist movie”, to the level it sits at.
Took me many years before I realised that Moriarty, Odball’s bow gunner, is Captain Stubing.
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Don Rickles was absolutely funny as hell. The scene where they have the face to face meeting with Fishface ,the Tiger commander, is funny as a it parodies Clint’s spaghetti Westerns. Can’t remember where I saw this, but Clint wanted stuff as accurate as possible. He maybe one of us. Great movie in many ways.
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“Maybe we can make a deal.”
“What kind of a deal?”
“A deal deal. Maybe the guy’s a republican.”
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