According to the Nuremberg Toy Fair, Emhar are saying that the 1/35 Schneider will be released this year. Perhaps this time it's true.
Also, Italeri are claiming that they've produced either an adhesive that will stick polyethylene or a new type of plasic that will stick with ordinary adhesive. At least, that seems to be the case. The link on their website doesn't work, so the description finishes part-way through. Can't find any more details at present.
-- Edited by James H at 13:40, 2007-08-15
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Earlier this month I visited a model shop in Southern England and asked about the Emhar Schneider model kit. The man at the desk called Pocketbond Ltd. - a very nice gesture! - and asked for details. The person from Pocketbond (Emhar belongs to this firm) wasn't able to say anything about the release date of the Schneider tank. It looks that we have to wait for this kit....
Well, it took them about 5 years to deliver the A7V . . . .
Someone's had more success with the Italeri website than I did:
"Traditionally, one of the major problems in modelling figures is the difficulty of working with Polyethylene, the soft plastic used in moulding. After a long research Italeri, with its usual attention to the modeller's needs, is now introducing a new material which will revolutionize the world of scale soldiers: "Let's Glue It". Products with this logo will be moulded with a new plastic that, while retaining the mechanical properties of Polyethylene, can be glued using any standard modeling glue. A higher stiffness will also ease the elimination of moulding seams, another hard-to-solve problem in soft figures. The first Italeri product issued in the "Let's Glue It" range is item 6108, on sale in February."
-- Edited by James H at 14:38, 2007-08-16
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if it took them so long to get a Mk.V kit out, essentially a converstion of the Mk.IV kit I dont believe emhar will make this deadline, besides the Schnieder tank would be a completely new kit, .
