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  • Dogsbody
    • Jan 2022
    • 8
    #1

    AFV Club Magach 6B

    Anyone know the difference between the AFV club Magach 6B and the Magach 6B Gal kits?
    Apart from the £30 price difference that is.
    Also I see Meng do a 6B kit too.
    I've only ever built Tamiya, how do these 3 manufacturers compare?
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    • Mark1
      • Apr 2021
      • 4156
      #2
      Probably best to check out some online reviews, afv and meng will be a lot more detailed than a tamiya kit more small fiddly parts,

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        • Tim Marlow
          SMF Supporters
          • Apr 2018
          • 18884
          • Tim
          • Somerset UK
          #3
          Hi Martin.
          Reviews here,
          Magach 6B GAL - Armor - Reviews - IPMS Seattle
          https://www.ipms-seattle.org/reviews/armor/2020-EC-AFV-35S92/
          Calendar of Scale Modeling Events in the Puget Sound area

          IDF M60A1 Magach 6B
          https://reviews.ipmsusa.org/review/idf-m60a1-magach-6b
          History and this Kit The Magach tank was produced and based on both the M48, and with the Magach 6B on M60 tank hulls. I took this review assignment because of my interest in the M60 Patton tanks. Having built several over the last few years and AFV’s M60A1 kit #35060 and Takom’s M60A1 with the Explosive Reactive Armor, I was equally up for the challenge of the Magach 6B. This latest version of the Magach 6B has mostly aspects that we modelers can’t see: the British 105mm gun and 750hp diesel engine. As the M60 tanks were modified into the Magach 6 series the most noticeable difference is the explosive reactive armor panels surrounding the turret and the frontal hull area, and the addition of a M2 50 cal. and two 30 cal. machine guns on the turret.

          Magach 6B GAL
          https://archive.armorama.com/news/32865/index.htm
          Meng Model updates its Magach 6B offering with this new kit release.



          Info here (always worth a look on this site. It’s a great resource)
          Magach 6B GAL, AFV Club AF35S92 (2020)
          https://www.scalemates.com/kits/afv-club-af35s92-magach-6b-gal--1237813
          AFV Club model kit in scale 1:35, AF35S92 is a rebox released in 2020 | Contents, Previews, Reviews, History + Marketplace | M60 Tank | EAN: 4716965359928


          Hope this is of some help :thumb2:

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            • Guest
              #4
              Originally posted by Dogsbody
              Anyone know the difference between the AFV club Magach 6B and the Magach 6B Gal kits?
              Going by the box art on Scalemates, the 6B Gal kit includes resin parts for a number of additional items, which would drive the price up by rather more than if those same parts had been in plastic. (The reason they’ve added them in resin is probably because they don’t expect to make their money back if they had included them as a plastic sprue, by the way: resin is cheaper to make for small runs, plastic is only economical if you expect to sell a lot.)

              Originally posted by Dogsbody
              I've only ever built Tamiya, how do these 3 manufacturers compare?
              AFV Club is rather more intricate to build than Tamiya. Fit is generally good but not at Tamiya levels (to be fair, hardly anybody’s kits are that level), but parts are much finer and more numerous, resulting in a model with better detail than the same model from Tamiya would be.

              Meng is somewhere between the two, I think.

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                • Dogsbody
                  • Jan 2022
                  • 8
                  #5
                  Thanks guys, very useful

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