The Italeri kit had plates on the front of the lower hull for the dozer attachment. I would be surprised if Italeri reissued the kit without them. Looking at the Tamiya boxart I do not see the plates and cannot tell from the pics.
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Great writing and still hilarious even today. Another thing I want to mention about oddball is that they were kind of poking fun at the older WW2 generation but they were definitely poking fun at the hippies too, every single thing was done in good taste and respectfully but no one got off Scott free either. I still watch it 2-3 every single year.
Another scene where I laugh out loud every time is the one where they shoot the tiger with pink paint, itâs so ridiculous but hilarious at the same time 
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Fully agree!
Itâs this movie that got me into armor modelling. My parents gave me the (original issue) M4A3 for my 12th birthday and I was hooked from there on. Before that I had been doing mostly 1/72 scale planes.
The movie has great writing. And some super quotable lines.
âItâs Babra!â
âTo a New Yorker like you a hero is some kind of weird sandwich.â
âIn the Bocage (which Moriarty pronounces Bow-cass) we were assaulted by them Tigers. And when I say assaulted, I MEAN ASSAULTED!â
âI only ride them, I donât know what makes them work.â
â Iâm drinking wine and eating cheese, and catching some rays, you know.â
âGet the ionosphere the hell off the air!â
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Hippies were around a long time, just under different names. Great film though.
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The beatniks had to come from somewhere⌠
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There were two types of road wheels produced during WW2. Very glad Tamiya went for the reinforced type.
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In some thread in some forum, Kurt McLaughlin recently explained this in reference to the Pershing road wheels. As I remember(Ha Ha). the wheels had a covering over them to prevent mud from building up in the road wheels. If this covering is present, the lip in the road wheel will not be visible. I will corrected if I am wrong on this matter.
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Our own Gary 'the Tool" posted this sometime back on this forum. Similar posting style though:
Bundeswehr M48 - Armor/AFV / Cold War - KitMaker Network
Is it any wonder this guy held the distinction for almost fifteen years as the only to be booted off this model building forum?
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Youâre mixing them up. âRemagenâ is worth seeing again. As for âBattle of the BulgeââŚ
I forgot to mention this when the movie stuff first came up but I believe that âBridge at Remagenâ features some M24 tanks in one of the opening sequences. Iâd have to go back and confirm this but If memory serves me correctly there is a sequence that shows a column of M24s moving at high speed and firing their guns and machine guns across the river as they advance towards the bridge. Iâm assuming that if they are in fact M24s that they were probably some sort of post war version. According to what Iâve read about the making of this film, the producers borrowed equipment from the Austrian government to make the movie.
Here is a still from the film. I donât know enough about the M24 to identify any particular version of the tank that this could be, but since it was Austrian military equipment there is a possibility that it was supplied to them shortly after the war.
Also an idea just popped into my head, Arnold Schwarzenegger was an Austrian tank driver right around the time that this film was made. What are the odds that he was a movie extra driving one of these tanks on loan from the Austrian government?
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Talking about M24s in movies, thereâs even one featured in the 1952 comedy movie The Little World of Don Camillo
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IIRC, apparently he was a crewman on an M47. As, incidentally, was François Verlinden â though in a different army, of course 
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Kellyâs Heroes was filmed in Yugoslavia. A father of my friend (also scale modeller) was a doctor engaged in a scene where a bridge was blown off. A Tiger was T34 modified for Neretva movie, and used in this one too. In Neretva there were further t34 modified as Panthers, along with M3 half-tracks modified to resemble sdkfz 251. In actual battle on Neretva Germans used Hotchkiss H39âŚ
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I think itâs fantastic that so many people still love and enjoy âKellyâs Heroesâ itâs a testament to the genius and talent of that star studded cast, the fantastic writing, and just how beautifully crafted the film was.
I watched a documentary once about the making of the movie and the cast members raved about Yugoslavia, they had so much fun partying there that itâs a miracle that they actually finished filming the movie, I mean they had delays because guys were out partying so much. They all said it was the most fun theyâd ever had shooting a movie 
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Getting back on topic, do we have a release date for this new Tamiya M24?
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The Bridge at Remagen was filmed in Czechoslovakia in 1968. IIRC, production of the film was almost shut down due to the Soviet invasion to crush Prague Spring.
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Yes, the invasion threatened to kill the movie, they were forced to recreate parts of the bridge in West Germany and Italy. So while it should have been filmed exclusively in Czechoslovakia, the movie ended up being filmed in three different locations.
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The bad news: not that Iâm aware of.
The good news: Tamiya usually doesnât do these presentations and have us waiting long until release. Unlike some companies that announce product while still in development and sometimes ends up not getting released at all.
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