1/18 M1A1 ABRAMS ( BBI compare with Bravo team)

[rohirrimknight]

Hi, I am interesting to buy one soon but I need suggestion which of them is better in term of work quality, and realistic? Thanks in advance for all suggestion.

[B17Fortress]

The BBI M1A1 is more realistic and a better quality, but the FOV version is more playable. Most online dealers offer the tanks at similar pricing, like Foxhole Toys.

[rohirrimknight]

Thanks

[granch]

Have both at home. I agree with B17. But the FOV also appears with the european camo... I would'nt have bought it if BBI had also released one.

[tmanthegreat]

Both are excellent. While I'm not an armor expert, from what I've picked up on past discussions, the BBI M1 represents an earlier variant of the M1A1 from the 1980s and early 1990s. It is in Operation Desert Storm livery. The FOV Bravo Team M1A1 is a later version common in the late 1990s and 2000s. It is in Operation Iraqi Freedom livery. The two models, in a sense, compliment each other as they are variants of the M1 without being duplicates.

The BBI tooling and FOV tooling each have their positive and negative qualities. The BBI tank has more stowage and better detailed guns. The vision ports are also painted and it comes with a figure in box. The hatches are shallow & figures must "sit" in the hatches. The FOV tank has rubbery plastic .50cal gun and the turret bustle is often rubbery & bent. It has much better weathering and figures stand in the hatches. No figure is included, but carded ones are easily available. The rubbery gun can be replaced with the gun that comes with the carded Bravo Team tank commander figure & the bent bustle can be fixed as well. The Bravo Team tanks make great customizing bases & can be made into fantastic-looking tanks without much work using stowage, etc that comes with the Bravo Team figures.

[Birddog]

Just a quick update on the FOV M1A1 Abrams, they are starting to show up with a commander figure included. The package has a sticker on the window that says "bonus commander figure" or something to that nature. It's not a new figure, just one of the previously released carded figures included.

[tmanthegreat]

Just a quick update on the FOV M1A1 Abrams, they are starting to show up with a commander figure included. The package has a sticker on the window that says "bonus commander figure" or something to that nature. It's not a new figure, just one of the previously released carded figures included.

That's cool. Nice for a little update to the tank rather than just releasing the same thing they've had on the shelves for the past few years. I never really pay close attention to the Bravo Team tanks other than just noting that they are there. I got one each of the desert and woodland versions back when they were first released, and along with my BBI Abrams, haven't needed any more

[digger]

This is what skilled hands can do to the bbi version. This is the work of old member Billgiff:

[tmanthegreat]

Here is what Pickelhaube's friend Robbie did with the FOV Bravo Team M1 Abrams:





Its a work of art