NEWS: Magic Factory M2A4 with CVTESS coming soon

Not necessarily. In many ways, the Magic Factory kits are a step backwards, ommiting improvements that had already been make. I outline many shortfalls in this thread:

All comments apply even though I was building a different version.And of course there are more, including something I only discovered months after the fact - the tracks are not correct.
Some of the inaccuracies may seem trivial tov some, but as a whole, that many shortcomings is unforgivable given the amount of reference material available. And as for fixing them, folks are still ignoring inaccuracies in the old Tamiya/Academy kits, even though they’re glaring and easily fixable.
Shout out to Jacques Duquette for his 3D printed parts, but even so, you gotta put in more work than that to get any of these kits right.

Then of course there are the things that aren’t quite inaccurate, but can certainly be improved upon, like the overly thick turret basket, which can easily be replaced with brass shim. I’ve posted those fixes on other threads, with photos.

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