Nice kit! I’ve thought about adding one!
Any import fees from Aussie? I’ve been thinking of ordering from BNA
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Don’t know what the import fee situation is so can’t speak to it, but BNA is a really first rate outfit to buy from.
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Total shipping was $16.00+ change which seems reasonable to N.Carolina
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When AK interacive goes for support vehicles, why no ROBUR LO 2002?:
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The VBCI is probably Hellers best kit.
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The Soviet Cold War counter continues, postie delivered this today.
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Well the postie brought a couple of parcels today.
A very large box with this inside;
Not sure why AFV Club decided on such a large box with the spures floating around inside.
Then we have tracks for the M1IP and some Finnish tank crew for the Soviet ball tank.
Lastly some reference material, I don’t read German except what you pick up over the years building German models and doing research but the pictures are in universal and smart phones have a camera translator thing.
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Good choice on books Luciano, you can never go wrong with Motorbuch Verlag.
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Those are really good. Not too tricky to build and very easy to have fully workable. I’ve used a number of track sets from this series in those brown boxes, and would recommend all of them.
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@HermannB I thought I’d better get some reference material on the NVA as I now have a few builds in the pile. A quick skim through and I can see more of the builds that weren’t going to be NVA now going the NVA route!
@Jakko Yes they are good, I used the T-72 set on my Tamiya build and they were very good. I already have another set for another Tamiya T-72 even though I don’t yet have the tank! Shame Trumpeter don’t do a set for their BMP-1, as the tracks that come with the kit are not the best fitting.
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I have a similar Magach kit from AFV club and I agree the box is comically big. It’s probably in the top 3-4 biggest boxes and I have some 1/48 bombers and some 1/350 ships
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I have the impression that most of these track sets are actually by another company originally, and Trumpeter’s parent company just bought them/the moulds. I’m not sure I’m right in thinking that, but the quality of all of these sets I’ve used has been so far ahead of what I expect from Trumpeter/Hobby Boss/I 
Kit that it’s immediately noticeable …
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@Littorio, If your interested in more NVA literature, I can recommend FAHRZEUG Profile brochures.
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@HermannB Danke Hermann, I have my eye the the artillery book in the same series as the ones I received already but I’ll look into the ones you’ve pointed out.
In the mean time a parcel arrived from Italy and another from a few miles away.
Another BMP-1 for the BRM-1K NVA conversion
And something counter Soviet
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Well just looking through a Trumpeter 2025/26 catalog and found Trumpeter do a set of BMP-1 workable tracks and a set for the PT-76 as well. I’m going to have to search for these as I’ve never seen them for sale.
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That’s correct. Many of them were originally issued by Armour Track Models back in the 2000s.
But to be fair to Trumpeter, they continued the line and many of their own-tool sets are also very high quality.
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Ah, yes, I thought I remembered something like that but wasn’t sure.
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