AFV Club Magach 6B

[Dogsbody]

Anyone know the difference between the AFV club Magach 6B and the Magach 6B Gal kits?
Apart from the £30 price difference that is.
Also I see Meng do a 6B kit too.
I've only ever built Tamiya, how do these 3 manufacturers compare?

 

[Mark1]

Probably best to check out some online reviews, afv and meng will be a lot more detailed than a tamiya kit more small fiddly parts,

 

[Tim Marlow]

Hi Martin.
Reviews here,

Magach 6B GAL - Armor - Reviews - IPMS Seattle

www.ipms-seattle.org

IDF M60A1 Magach 6B

History and this Kit The Magach tank was produced and based on both the M48, and with the Magach 6B on M60 tank hulls. I took this review assignment because of my interest in the M60 Patton tanks. Having built several over the last few years and AFV’s M60A1 kit #35060 and Takom’s M60A1 with the...

reviews.ipmsusa.org

Magach 6B GAL

Meng Model updates its Magach 6B offering with this new kit release.

archive.armorama.com

Info here (always worth a look on this site. It’s a great resource)

Magach 6B GAL, AFV Club AF35S92 (2020)

www.scalemates.com

Hope this is of some help

 

[Jakko]

Anyone know the difference between the AFV club Magach 6B and the Magach 6B Gal kits?

Going by the box art on Scalemates, the 6B Gal kit includes resin parts for a number of additional items, which would drive the price up by rather more than if those same parts had been in plastic. (The reason they’ve added them in resin is probably because they don’t expect to make their money back if they had included them as a plastic sprue, by the way: resin is cheaper to make for small runs, plastic is only economical if you expect to sell a lot.)

I've only ever built Tamiya, how do these 3 manufacturers compare?

AFV Club is rather more intricate to build than Tamiya. Fit is generally good but not at Tamiya levels (to be fair, hardly anybody’s kits are that level), but parts are much finer and more numerous, resulting in a model with better detail than the same model from Tamiya would be.

Meng is somewhere between the two, I think.

 

[Dogsbody]

Thanks guys, very useful