To test out my new iPad, I’ve taken some pictures of what I’ll be building for this GB 
First up, the kits:
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An Asuka Sherman III plus the Resicast BARV conversion, and two of the idler wheels my brother 3D-printed for me recently.
In the Asuka kit, you get this:
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Plus instructions, of course, but those are on Scalemates so I’m not going to post them here. You also get several of some of these sprues, like those with the wheels and a few others, the track, etc.
If you look at these sprues, you can see there are a lot of alternative parts: no less than three complete sets of wheels (spoked, pressed-spoke and disc), for example, two different styles of bogie body, two noses, two guns and two gun mantlets, two stowage boxes for the turret rear, etc. There are also parts not actually for this variant, because the kit includes some sprues for a different one that you need a few parts of. But at least it’s not like Dragon where you get a ton more than this.
And most of this will go straight into the spares box … I only really need the lower hull, upper hull, suspension, and some detail parts. I wanted to save money by ordering only the sprues I really need straight from Asuka in Japan, but adding up the costs for them, plus the expected import duties, VAT, handling fees, etc. it would probably have been only slightly cheaper than buying this complete kit, plus it would likely have been a month or more before I would get it.
So, on to the conversion kit. I’m not going to take the parts from their bags, but this is what you get:
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Lots of small bits, with only a few larger ones, and the kit even includes decals.
First up, the kits:
[ATTACH]509249[/ATTACH]
An Asuka Sherman III plus the Resicast BARV conversion, and two of the idler wheels my brother 3D-printed for me recently.
In the Asuka kit, you get this:
[ATTACH]509250[/ATTACH][ATTACH]509251[/ATTACH][ATTACH]509252[/ATTACH][ATTACH]509253[/ATTACH]
Plus instructions, of course, but those are on Scalemates so I’m not going to post them here. You also get several of some of these sprues, like those with the wheels and a few others, the track, etc.
If you look at these sprues, you can see there are a lot of alternative parts: no less than three complete sets of wheels (spoked, pressed-spoke and disc), for example, two different styles of bogie body, two noses, two guns and two gun mantlets, two stowage boxes for the turret rear, etc. There are also parts not actually for this variant, because the kit includes some sprues for a different one that you need a few parts of. But at least it’s not like Dragon where you get a ton more than this.
And most of this will go straight into the spares box … I only really need the lower hull, upper hull, suspension, and some detail parts. I wanted to save money by ordering only the sprues I really need straight from Asuka in Japan, but adding up the costs for them, plus the expected import duties, VAT, handling fees, etc. it would probably have been only slightly cheaper than buying this complete kit, plus it would likely have been a month or more before I would get it.
So, on to the conversion kit. I’m not going to take the parts from their bags, but this is what you get:
[ATTACH]509254[/ATTACH][ATTACH]509255[/ATTACH]
Lots of small bits, with only a few larger ones, and the kit even includes decals.
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