My third 1/35 T-72 from Trumpeter going up.
This is not a good kit.. the next T-72M1 or Ural I build will be Amusing Hobby. But some scratchbuilding, a 3D-printed Chinese ATGM jammer, and the exquisite NSVT machine gun from E.T. Model really help it out.
That is one detailed turret Matt- very fine work!
Its the bee’s knees!
Would you recommend staying away from all of Trumpeters T-72 kits ? Looks good but that looks like the type of 12.7 ammo can used on the T-80, not T-72.
I’ve built one of 72s. You get alot of parts in the kit.
I don’t recommend staying away from them, exactly. They have fit problems, gaps, missing some details, some things in the wrong places. But it’s still a generally accurate kit, and it certainly looks like a T-72.
Too many parts for my liking.
I’ll go for the Tamiya one. That’ll suit me just fine.
Interesting. This is the second I’ve built from Trumpeter, and it didn’t occur to me that the parts count was exorbitant.
Tamiya’s kit is horribly inaccurate, but I’ll be interested to see what you’ll do with it!
I enjoyed the AM kit myself.
Technically, Tamiya’s kit is simplified and represents one of a very limited production of a East German tank. T-72M with a T-72 M1 turret? It’s been a while since I looked at the info. Regardless, the Tamiya kit can be built without issue and looks like a T-72. If you want more detail/accuracy, then you gotta start looking at the high-part-count kits…
It is?
I just want to do an East German one in their 3-tone camo and have no need for any interior. That would just be wasted on me.
I believe the Tamiya turret shape is inaccurate for any version of T-72. Amusing Hobby / Das Werk offer more accurate kits, depending which version you want.
Again, not specifically incorrect, just over simplified. I prefer more accurate models myself (quiet the understatement) but it does not ruin the kit. Its not like they put a T-55 turret in the kit or something…just a kinda soft detail, soft contour version of the turret…
‘Incorrect’ depends on individual modelers’ thesholds, I guess, so we’ll have to agree to disagree. It’s wrong in plan to be a T-72A/T-72M1: the turret cheeks don’t extend anywhere near as far forward as they should; and it’s wrong in profile to be a T-72M: for that, the turret faces should be sloped, wheras the Tamiya kit’s are vertical like the T-72A/M1. So it’s a kind of hybrid of two different models of turret without being either one.
But yeah, it does still look like a T-72 overall and personally I like the kit - it was way ahead of the ESCI and Dragon kits when it came out, and still builds up nicely.
Interesting info on the Trumpeter kit as I have two in the stash along with some from Das Werk and Amusing Hobby and two more from Tamiya, to be built as Finnish and Indian.
This is my Tamiya kit finished this year, with Aber gun, Eduard small set for the engine/transmission mesh, Trumpeter tracks and Eureka tow rope. First 1/35 kit finished in a long time after building ships and aircraft.
So basically the Tamiya needs a new turret then?
Is there any A.M.-turret available, except from Kirin’s`?
There are several turrets and hull conversions available from SBS Models. Page 3 has the T-72 turrets.
I found this comparisson between 3 turrets on M-L. Tamiya’s really is off!
I also found a review by Cookie Sowell of the Trumpeter T-72…. not a positive one… Take it for what it’s worth.
Cookie wrote that review in 2001.
Trumpeter’s new-tool T-72 series were released beginning in 2013, and the T-72M1 I’m building was released last year.
