"new" M4A3 Easy Eight from Asuka... Tasca ?

Hello all,

The Asuka 35030 "Easy Eight" is also on my desk and it´s indeed with mixed feeling I´m looking at it and indeed all accessories are in fact Tamiya stuff !
Even the plans and the item numbers are correct the same as the Tamiya Easy Eight. By the way it´s no longer in the Tamiya 2015 catalog.

I know this since I bought a few years ago this Easy Eight of Tamiya for my youngest son.
He´s now re-building this Tamiya Easy Eight to the Fury tank from the movie, it´s indeed an M4A2E8.

In the Asuka box there is a second deflector (later type), and it´s this second deflector that is used on the Fury tank,based on the movie pictures.

The Asuka box I found the T80 tracks, 4 plastic strips and guess what? They are too short, you can´t simply not use these tracks.
This Asuka kit does not really add any value, it´s actually a full Tamiya kit under another name, even the extras are all from Tamiya.

But it´s a solution because Tamiya or any other brand sells better Sherman tank.

The Bravo-6 movie figures are really great and the Legend Productions M4A3E8 1945 Update Big set " Fury " is the most accurate set, but they do not add the
red canvas that is on the tank.

My son uses also from Resicast the Full interior set for the driver compartment and the turret. He tried also to add the Verlinden productions Sherman M4A3 engine
but this is to big, 100% sure it´s not scale 1/35. That is one of the issues with Verlinden, seems that they can´t make correct scale items.

And than to say that I've learned a lot from Francois Verlinden when he had his Model shop in Belgium in the city Lier. He has learned my among others the dry brushing technic.

Erik