Cold war verhicles and soldiers

[robbie039]

there is a real shortage in Cold war verhicles as plastic in 1/56 scale . altough there are enough rule sets.
my question is simple why not More cold war stuff.

[Rubicon Models]

Our company is only one year old, still working on a growing range of WW2 plastic vehicles.  Some of the late war vehicles are applicable to the Korean war and such...  As for the Cold War, this might be something we could do later on, but not now!

 

[CFRNelson]

One thing  that  Rubicon Models   might  consider would  be  to add  a long  barrel 105mm to  the  Sherman Kit and thus allowing  conversion of it  to the Israeli M51 Sherman used  in the  67 war.

[ultravanillasmurf]

I think that you need more than just the 105mm gun.

The M50 appears to be based on the Sherman 5 (long hull) often with a a diesel engine or a Sherman 3, most pictures show HVSS.

The M51 appears to be based on the Sherman 2 (cast hull), again most with HVSS.

http://the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_Israeli_Shermans.pdf

Of course a number of these features are mentioned on the Sherman thread.

[Edit] I have just had a look at the George Bradford cold war afv book, it shows an M50 based on a Sherman 1 composite hull.

[sandsmodels]

the Israeli shermans have lots more done to them than just a longer bigger gun barrel, sadly.
maybe we could do the conversion kit instead as I see very few sales for rubicon in that direction.