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Friday, September 26, 2014 - 06:29 AM UTC
News out of Dragon is bringing us another Black Label model of a British heavy Cold War tank.
Dragon Models has announced an addition to the Black Label line with the British FV214 Conqueror. The Conqueror was designed in the mid-1950’s in response to the Soviet IS-3 and mounted a 120mm gun. At 66 tons its main disadvantage of was speed and being too heavy for many bridges. In total 185 Conquerors were built and assigned to tank regiments in Germany.

3555 – British Heavy Tank Conqueror – Black Label Series

According to Dragon Models USA this kit should hit the market in December 2014.
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Well, I've read the thread again, and I've seen complaints about this and that, but I can't find anybody complaining that they were "forced to build a model". So, I have no idea why you're telling us this.
SEP 27, 2014 - 01:06 AM
So far all Dragon has produced is a couple of small CAD (?) drawings of the tank, while Amusing Hobbies has the the kit ready to go. Maybe Dragon is just trying to hurt AH's sales with announcements. They've done it before.
SEP 27, 2014 - 02:10 AM
looks like amusing is making one as well
SEP 27, 2014 - 10:38 AM
Perhaps DML's announcement is to drop cold water on AH's announcement -- that's a good guess. But like others have said, AH makes a very good product at a very good price. If AH hits the shelves first, I doubt there would be many people who would hold of buying it in order to wait for a DML release.
SEP 27, 2014 - 10:54 AM
I wonder what the price difference will be... If the AH product is less than Dragon's then there's no shadow of a doubt that the AH will out sell.
SEP 27, 2014 - 11:50 AM
Unfortunately, the design team that Dragon has assigned to their Black Label project line has proven to be terrible at research. These kits are well into into Academy territory when it comes to unnecessary and nearly unfixable errors. So, regardless of how attractive the subject appears, I'll wait to see the reviews before I open my wallet.
SEP 27, 2014 - 04:13 PM
Only because DML invented the Black Label series after the T28 release. The T28 kit has all the features of the Black Label kits: including the subject choice and a crappy research... Really?... Not a bad model? Where you cannot even put the turret on the hull without extra effort? And it is not a bad model of what? Certainly not of M103A1... A review sample from DML perhaps?... The Black Label kits are simplified, poorly researched and WAY overpriced, while Amusing kits are much more reasonably priced and their quality so far exceeds that of Black Label kits. Yet you blindly declare that you will get the Dragon kit... I would understand it if the Black Label kit was the only choice in plastic, as in case of M103, Kpz70 or M6A1, but in this case?... It is even more surprising than our negativity towards it. A review sample seems to be the only reasonable explanation.
SEP 27, 2014 - 05:36 PM
So far all the AH kits are significantly cheaper than the Black Label kits.
SEP 27, 2014 - 06:24 PM
I would like to stick to the topic, being Dragon's release, but I think AH is the way to go.
OCT 04, 2014 - 12:36 PM
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