Its about a year from their first ideas , through the CAD design , to the test plastics and then our comments and then the revisions of the CAD if needed and then they release it . I'm good with this approach as Rubicon do listen and fix things that they get something wrong on the initial renders .For example , 1st look at SU-122/ 85 had the spider wheels of their T-34/85 . The SU122/85 s had the dish wheels ( early T-34/76 style ) , so they fixed it . Some companies that just announce kits without getting feed back from the tank fans out here in the real world and hey usually get things wrong either by omission ( pistol ports on BA KV II ) or stupidity ( trying to reuse sprues from previous kits when actually the parts changed ). Yes I would like the kits to come quicker , but I already a stack to build and need to buy food and pay rent , lol
