WOOHOO!!!!! A 1/16 Leopard 2A7V tank announced at Nuernberg Spielwarenmesse. Edit: 1/16 Hummel and Nashorn, also.

[LDO]

I’ve been hoping for a 1/16 Leopard 2 for a while. I was an M1A1 tanker stationed in Germany. I got to climb around a Leo 2 (don’t remember which variant) in the late 1990s. Such a cool tank. Up until now, the other options in 1/16 were a cheap rc tank that lacked detail and a Tamiya rc that was also sold as a display only model. The Tamiya kit has better detail, but rare as hen’s teeth, and expensive when it could be found. This new kit has an MSRP of US $199.99, with a pre-order price of US $179.99. The Tamiya kit can easily cost three times as much, so I’m pretty excited about this.

Check out Andy’s video. This model is HUGE. 

Being a tanker was such a cool job. I always worked at getting better, and I was good. Having said that, I am glad that I never fired a shot in anger. 

 

Fast forward to 18:48 for the 1/16 Nashorn and Hummel. 

 

Edited 15 hours ago by LDO

[Ace-Garageguy]

Cool kit. Seems cheap for what you get.

Great to see new large-scale contemporary armor.

Pretty cool background info too.

And the M1A1 is a thing of great beauty IMHO.   

Edited 17 hours ago by Ace-Garageguy