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Post by El Caracho on Jan 15, 2019 16:52:52 GMT
The company Gudi is also entering the game of releasing highly detailed modern warfare models: Set 6102 "M1A2 Abrams U.S. Main Battle Tank" 2155 pcs
Set 6103 "ZTZ-99A MBT" 1283 pcs
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Post by Deinonychus on Jan 16, 2019 0:05:54 GMT
That Abrams looks great, but those rubber treads are almost a deal-breaker.
And without individual track links, where are they hiding 2155 pieces? Hopefully not in an over-designed interrior.
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Post by shinypants on Jan 16, 2019 3:04:33 GMT
The abrams is 48cm? It's gonna be huge! Bigger than Panlos sets. And no minifigs?
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Post by El Caracho on Jan 16, 2019 5:53:53 GMT
That Abrams looks great, but those rubber treads are almost a deal-breaker. And without individual track links, where are they hiding 2155 pieces? Hopefully not in an over-designed interrior. It does look like individual track links to me though (Running on the same gears as the big Lego ones)
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Post by Deinonychus on Jan 16, 2019 15:42:05 GMT
Ah...unless I put my face on the computer screen the top picture looks like rubber tracks, but those are definitely the big track links. Gives a better idea of the scale as well. Looks like it could rival the old Mega Bloks ProBuilder Abrams as far as size goes! Now the 2155 pieces aren't so much of a mystery.
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Post by El Caracho on Jan 17, 2019 10:26:45 GMT
Yep, big individual track pieces (slightly different than the Lego ones, though): And here's the detailed interior, which explains the high piece count even more:
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Post by shinypants on Jan 29, 2019 2:15:26 GMT
The T-99 is now on aliexpress.
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Post by El Caracho on Aug 5, 2019 13:07:35 GMT
Gudi has added more sets to their "Model Collection": Set 6108 "Challenger II Main Battle Tank" (1:28), 1467 pcs.Set 6101 "M1A2 Abrams U.S. Main Battle Tank" (1:28), 1361 pcs
This is a smaller edition (1:28) of the 1:18 scale "M1A2 Abrams" (6102), which now fits perfectly to Gudis other 1:28 tanks "Challenger II" (6108) and "ZTZ-99A MBT" (6103) At first I thought it was a copy of the Kazi KY10000 "M1A2 Abrams" set, but after a closer look, the sets seems to be slightly different.
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Post by shinypants on Aug 5, 2019 15:31:31 GMT
Sweet!
Since Xingbao is not going to make any more tanks, I may just get this one!
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Post by Deinonychus on Aug 5, 2019 16:50:56 GMT
Interesting. I haven't put the ZTZ-99 together yet, but I'm hoping that it holds together better than the big Abrams.
That Challenger has a unique look. That should add a little more variety to my line-up of modern MBTs.
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Post by gillum on Aug 5, 2019 18:53:43 GMT
have you some links?
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Post by El Caracho on Aug 6, 2019 9:06:03 GMT
No Challenger II on AliExpress yet, though ...
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Post by aushen on Aug 8, 2019 17:50:33 GMT
The chally 2 looks good Wonder when it will be sold
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Post by gillum on Aug 10, 2019 5:01:39 GMT
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Post by El Caracho on Oct 7, 2019 12:37:20 GMT
Last weekend I assembled the Gudi set 6108 "Challenger II main Battle Tank" (34 Euros incl. postage from AliExpress), and I encountered some problems:
The biggest problem is: The turret cannot be fixed to the body of the tank, it constantly keeps falling off again :-( The 4x4 turntable plate with the 6x6 round plate attached on top of it do not hold together at all. And super glue does not work here obviously, because it's a turntable, so I guess the only solution would be to replace the 2 Gudi parts with genuine Lego parts (Hmpff).
The smaller gun mounted on the left side of the turret also falls off constantly, because it does not stick to the hollow stud of the 1x2 "jumper" plate. Again, super glue would prevent it from being able to be rotated, but putting a black 1x1 round plate with a hole in the middle (from my Lego spare parts) on top of the tan 1x2 jumper plate did the trick.
The model looks like it was designed digitally and the send into production before building it with real bricks first, so some of the building steps in the instruction manual are not possible as pictured.
For example the hatch for the engine compartment cannot be closed, because the big gear of the engine underneath it is simply to high (1 plate height). But if you remove the middle plate from underneath the hatch, it will close.
The back armour plate from the hull also tends to fall off, because the way it should be mounted is not possible (too much tension, if you push down the plates on top properly, it automatically pushes off the rear plates), so super glue might be the answer here.
The side panels of the turret are bend a little to the outside by the turret's frontal armor plates (barely noticeable, but not a proper build according to the "brick space grid")
The top panels in the middle of the hull (who cover the interior of the hull) will break down into the interior of the hull very easily if pressed down too hard (e.g. by the pure weight of the turret). The should have been constructed way better to become more rigid. Would have been so easy just by using longer plates which go all the way from one side wall of the hull to the other, so they can't break down in the middle.
I had no missing parts in this set and only one damaged part (tan 1x2 tile), which fortunately could be used where the damaged part is not visible.
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