THE ELM CITY HOBBIES SPRUE VIEW

Posted Jul 05, 2010

Enough T-62s to build your own army!!!

This is the new release of the 2nd version (of a rumored 12) of the new T-62 kit by Trumpeter. Finally we can say goodbye to the woefully bad Tamiya T-62!!!!

For anyone that has seen the first release a few months back of the knows just how beautiful this kit really is.

This kit represents the improvements the Soviets made over the first version of this tank, with new drive sprocket, RMSh tracks, and the addition of a 12.7mm Machine Gun

The kit consists of 516 pieces, in grey, black and clear styrene, as well as a metal barrel, photo-etch parts and brass wire for a tow cable. Markings for one Soviet version, as well as one Syrian version as this was the main tank in Syrian service when they attacked Israel in 1973.

Here are photos of the sprues and instruction sheets. The gallery will open in a popup and you can click through to the next and read descriptions.

As I said before, this is a very beautiful kit, and while I haven’t built it yet, from the articles I am reading from people that are building it, the kit goes together very well. There are some naysayers out there that argue that the kit isn’t accurate because the loaders hatch is 1mm too far one way or another, and while I respect those that want to build their kits as accurately as possible, no kit is going to be perfect, and 99.9% of anyone that looks at it built are not going to notice that the hatch is off by so little.

This kit shares alot of parts with the previous release (mod. 1962), but this one has a new set of tracks (which no doubt makes up a good portion on the parts count), as well as the MG which was new for this version. Rumors are that Trumpeter is planning as many as 12 different versions of the T-62, the next 2 coming down the pipe are the T-64A and T-64B, sometime later this fall, or early 2011

If you are a fan of modern Soviet armor, you owe it to yourself to put this kit in your stash, it is generations ahead of the old Tamiya kit (trust me I know, I built that one not too many years ago, and this one is light years ahead). It definitely looks the part of the big mean Soviet War Machine of the Cold War, and will look very nice sitting opposite an Israeli Shot ’73 Centurion tank, it’s main adversary during the Yom Kippur War.

If you have any questions or comments about this kit, you can post them here:

http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/forum/index.php/topic,1093.0.html

This kit retails for $49.50CDN and can be ordered from Elm City Hobbies

I would give it 4.5 out of 5 Sprues!

Scott Millican lives in Elm City, New Brunswick.
No one is exactly sure where that is.
He owns an awesome hobby shop
and has a really cool website too.