Last year, Academy released four tank kits in 1/48 scale to address the growing re-interest in motorized models in that region of the world. These kits featured simple construction with some nice molded-on detailing that could serve and the basis of a nice scale model in the right hands and yet be simply fun for everyone else. These kits had nicely designed two-motor transmissions that were controllable from a tethered hand controller. The only downside was that all four tanks, the Israeli Merkava, Russian T-72, German Leopard 2 and British Challenger used the same rubberband track pattern that was only 'accurate' with the Leopard.
Academy has re-released these four tanks, sans the motorization, to serve as the basis of a nice static model. These compliment the variety of other 1/48 armor released by Zhengdefu. Rather than repeat the original reviews that we ran last year, click on the box art below and you'll be taken to the original reviews for each of these kits.
