Project of the Month - Dec 2021 - M3 Lee & Grant

[Wabbit]

Awesome I need a Lee for my British 14th Army force. I hope the decals cover the 25th Dragoons at the Admin Box or other Brigades in Burma. A Grant option and decals for North Africa would be fantastic too. Desert Rats!

[Tracks]

I wonder if Rubicon Models will also have a truck version of the M3 Medium tank. 



LOL
Seriously though, I also noticed that there is a growing interest in the M3 lately. Even USTAR (a Japanese company) will release a plastic M3 tank. However, that one will be 1:144 scale, and Takom's recent M3 kit is a 1:35 kit.



I think a lot of miniature gamers and some hobby modellers will be really looking forward to the new M3 Medium tank that Rubicon Models is planning to release. I predict that this new kit will be a good seller for them.

[SheriffSherman]

This is very exciting, I can’t wait to get a few of these…

[Tracks]

If and when this kit is released, I suspect most tabletop miniature gamers will get the kit to use as a standard M3 Lee or Grant. I know I will. For sure, those that have British Army miniatures will want these the most for their North African collections, but as mentioned before, the M3 medium was used all over the world by several countries. The main countries being the Americans, British, and Soviets.

There are so many uses for this kit. This kit would be a nice one to get for a conversion to a recovery vehicle (if you needed one), but a few were also used as prime movers, which would be a very easy conversion.

[Tracks]

Is this still on the production table?

[Tracks]

All quiet on the Rubicon front.

it has been pretty quiet here on Rubicon Models website for these last few months.

Not even a "Project of the Month" for quite sometime now. Maybe RM needs some good ideas?
How about some more Soviet WW2 stuff?

Soviet vehicles and equipment in plastic:
Plastic AT-Guns  - these would be popular; especially the ZiS-2 and ZiS-3 AT guns.
BA-64 – one of the most produced Soviet armored cars.
Note: The BA-3/BA-6 and BA-10 from Rubicon Models are very good model kits.
BT-5 or BT-7 - a BT-7 is coming soon?
T-60 or T-70
SU-76

And of course the Medium Tank M3 (AKA the Lee) was also used by the Soviet Army in WW2.

[Rubicon Models]

Not even a "Project of the Month" for quite sometime now. Maybe RM needs some good ideas?

We'd announced halting "Project of the Month" feature at the beginning of the year.  There are just too many open-ended projects and we would like to spend time finishing them all firsts before starting new ones.

Being that said, we are still starting new projects, but not at the rate of "at least" one per month.

[Rubicon Models]

Soviet vehicles and equipment in plastic:
Plastic AT-Guns  - these would be popular; especially the ZiS-2 and ZiS-3 AT guns.
BA-64 – one of the most produced Soviet armored cars.
Note: The BA-3/BA-6 and BA-10 from Rubicon Models are very good model kits.
BT-5 or BT-7 - a BT-7 is coming soon?
T-60 or T-70
SU-76

And of course the Medium Tank M3 (AKA the Lee) was also used by the Soviet Army in WW2.

We had not been updating the forum a lot this year due to limited resources handling social media.  We currently are focusing on Facebook only, hopefully, this will improve next year.

Here is an update on the Soviet related projects you mentioned:

Plastic AT-Guns  - these would be popular; especially the ZiS-2 and ZiS-3 AT guns.
>> ZiS-3 drawings are done, awaiting mould making.
>> ZiS-2 is still on the wishlist.

BA-64 – one of the most produced Soviet armored cars.
>> BA-64 is still on the wishlist.

BT-5 or BT-7 - a BT-7 is coming soon?
>> BT-7 & Variants drawings are done, awaiting mould making.

T-60 or T-70
>> No plan at this moment.

SU-76
>> No plan at this moment.

M3 Lee/Grant
>> Drawings are done, awaiting mould making.

[Wabbit]

Hi Any update on the m3 lee/Grant? Its been a very long time now almost 2 years? I really want a couple for my Burma and North Africa Bolt action forces. They look great. Fingers crossed its coming soon?

[Tracks]

Was this project cancelled?

[Rubicon Models]

The project is still ongoing... just finished digital sculpting of "organic" parts, awaiting approval.  Once approved, it will send to mould-making.

[H0ffmn]

Hi. Any chance of the M-3 Lee/Grant being released in your next wave of kit releases??

[Rubicon Models]

Possibility not.  The project is still on hold in the drawing stage because of some production issues.  Not because of the M3 Lee/Grant but the M7 Priest.  Might have to wait for a while before we can move both projects to mould making.  Sorry.

[Jaeger]

The M7 is interesting news. 
Looking forward to both. 
I still want an M21 also.

[H0ffmn]

Rubicon,
       Thank you for responding so quickly. Is there any chance that you could let us know what your next wave of releases may be? You've went through and turned all of your projects on the Production Schedule into kits on the market. That's very commendable!!