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ICM: King Tiger with Interior
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Posted: Monday, November 27, 2017 - 05:22 PM UTC


ICM announces an upcoming Pz.Kpfw.VI Ausf.B King Tiger (late production) with full interior.

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Bravo1102
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Posted: Monday, November 27, 2017 - 06:06 PM UTC
This is probably a play for Miniart's interior kit market in Russia rather than an attempt to compete with Asian companies. That is if we go with the "home market " is the largest market concern for model companies theory.
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Posted: Monday, November 27, 2017 - 06:13 PM UTC
Looks okay, strange all the interiors that get closed up.
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Posted: Monday, November 27, 2017 - 10:48 PM UTC
ICM is not MiniArt.
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Posted: Monday, November 27, 2017 - 11:00 PM UTC

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ICM is not MiniArt.


They are Russian companies competing for the same market, even I am not sure how an Interior KT is supposed to be a play for the market fir Miniart Russian tanks.
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Posted: Monday, November 27, 2017 - 11:16 PM UTC

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ICM is not MiniArt.


They are Russian companies competing for the same market, even I am not sure how an Interior KT is supposed to be a play for the market fir Miniart Russian tanks.

Got to think marketing and target audiences and not so literally.

Miniart is creating a market for tanks with interiors so ICM is going for that Russian market for model tanks with interiors, not necessarily Russian tanks.

Or ICM could be going back to its roots because the first tank kits they did had partial interiors and were Russian and are still available in Eastern Europe.
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Kyyv, Ukraine / Україна
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Posted: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 - 01:16 AM UTC
MiniArt is a Ukrainian company, not a Russian
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Posted: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 - 01:17 AM UTC

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ICM is not MiniArt.


They are Russian companies competing for the same market, even I am not sure how an Interior KT is supposed to be a play for the market fir Miniart Russian tanks.


Both from Ukraine. Big difference these days.
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Posted: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 - 02:23 AM UTC

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MiniArt is a Ukrainian company, not a Russian


That depends on if you consider the Crimean peninsula a dejure part of Russia
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Posted: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 - 03:37 AM UTC
Way too political for these discussions. Will it be offered with a transparent hull, I wonder. Detail looks okay.
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Posted: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 - 04:09 AM UTC
Looks like CAD to me
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Posted: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 - 06:37 AM UTC
AFV offered a T34 a few years back that had a transparent upper and turret so it is possible and solves that whole "now how do I display the interior"? thing.
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Posted: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 - 01:58 PM UTC

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MiniArt is a Ukrainian company, not a Russian

Forgive me. I was referring more to market base than specific ethnic background. Being descended from Russians forcibly resettled in Poland by the tsars to "russianize" it, I understand. The political borders over the years have been ambiguous in regard to the actual people living there so I used "Russian " as a general term for the various groups of the area.
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Posted: Friday, December 01, 2017 - 04:17 AM UTC
Considering the price-point with their other kits this one should be an easay addition to the stash.
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