The Modelling News: Trumpeter release the sprues to add to the colours, markings & parts of their new Sept/Oct kits...

Trumpeter are very busy. It seems there is a backlog of releases coming in an undefined September/ October timeframe. We have the information, sprues, colours, art and even a look at one of their two new kits completed in our preview...

Trumpeter release the sprues to add to the colours, markings & parts of their new Sept/Oct kits...

Mi-4 Hound 05816

Model: #05816

1/48th scale

Product Link from Hobbylink Japan

The Mi-4 was designed in response to the American H-19 Chickasaw and the deployment of U.S. helicopters during the Korean War. While the Mi-4 superficially resembles the H-19 Chickasaw, it is a larger helicopter and is able to lift more weight.

The colour profiles included in this kit

The decal sheet included in the kit

The first model entered service in 1952, and replaced the Mi-1. The helicopter was first displayed to the outside world in 1952 at the Soviet Aviation Day in Tushino.

Model Length: 340.6mm / Rotor Diameter: 430mm

Total Parts150+

Total of 6 sprues

- Detailed fuselage w/accurate design

- Canopy made from clear parts

The sprues of this kit

SOVIET ARMY OBJEKT 490B PROTOTYPE TANK

Model: #09598

1/35th scale

Product Link from Hobbylink Japan

The Object 490B Belka is an alternative design proposed for the Object 490 main battle tank after the decision in 1984 to use a 152mm smoothbore gun on the future Soviet MBTs instead of the 125mm smoothbore gun.

The colour profiles included in this kit

The Object 490B vastly differed from the original Object 490A design had an extremely sloped steel frontal armour instead of composite armour and four sets of tracks. The design had a two-man crew placed at the rear of the vehicle with the main gun and its ammunition in a separate compartment in front of them, while its two engines and fuel tank was placed at the front.

The sprues of this kit

The placement of the crew at the rear most part of the vehicle greatly increased the crew's survivability and made the use of composite armour unnecessary, given that the tank's other components in front would be sufficient to stop any penetrating projectiles from getting into the crew compartment. The tank's four sets of tracks was intended to allow the vehicle to still be mobile even if the front tracks were damaged by mines or enemy fire. The design never went past the scale model mock-up stage due to the introduction of the Object 299's Universal Combat Platform concept of vehicles in the late 1980s.

Model Length: 326.2mm / Width: 112.6mm

Total of 11 sprues , lower hull and upper hull

The kit consists of over 580 parts

Multi-slide moulded upper hull and lower hull

>192 individual tracks links