Re: Superheavy tank conversions

On 24 Oct 2003 at 13:17, Brian B wrote:

> Anyway, back to the issue at hand.  I checked the
> hobby store.	They had a bunch of Roco, as well as
> some HO stuff similar to Roco by companies called
> Premo (Not made by them, imported from eastern
> Europe), 

That's right, Premo is made in Russia. However it is distributed by 
Roco and it is the same scale as Roco. They are really good quality 
vehicles. It just so happens that I have 5 T34/76s, 3 T34/85s and 1 
SU100 on auction on eBay right now (I've decided not to go into 15mm 
Eastern Front; I'm keeping my Roco American and German stuff for 
Italian campaign action).

> So anyway, I asked to see their catalog, and it turns
> out Roco does NOT make modern Soviet/former Soviet
> (apparently the gulags and collectives don't make for
> popular model railroading scenery....). 

That's right, they don't. I have an older catalogue around here 
_somewhere_. Their modern German and U.S. stuff is good for 
modification, though.

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