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hi guys on rcu blitz has posted in the uk tankers thread, he reconds if we email mato and tell them what we would like , and that there is a big following for rc tanks  in the uk they might follow it up . ive emailed them telling them about this site and our club, now its up to you , i said a comet  would be nice,
all the best ,ice

i will let you know what they say

well done ICE have sent my 42 page Essay in LOL

cmon guys this is what we need a brit H/long creation this is what phil has written on RCU

To all UK Tankers, I have a good contact at Mato he has been asking me what I would like to see next and of course I said the Sherman, but 2nd choice was the Cromwell!!!

He wrote back and said he did not think that you guys where into tanks., I told him that I would have you guys e-mail Mato!! Drop them a note and let the know that RC tanking is huge in England, and you will buy a British tank for sure! Flood there Server Boys you never know, I know I would love to have the Cromwell!

http://www.matotoys.com/canada/contact_us.php


The Blitz

Didn't Mato have some sort of agreement with HL not to sell to Europe. I seem to recall that when the Matorro King Tiger came out they could only sell to Canada and the US and people in Europe had to get them from a European supplier. So that we had to pay the "right" price.

Torro.de are the European distrubutor for those products (hence ma-torro). I have bought spares from them via a German speaking co-worker, and was happy with the service (tho he wasn't happy with the iPhone I shipped him in return - some b*****d stole it enroute!)
If this thread had come around before I ordered the Matorro Tiger I the other night, I would have added "Sell me 5 Shermans and 3 Cromwells!!!!" to the special shipping instructions - oh well, there's always next time  :-[ 

HI GUYS Lucky the post is still there had an e-mail saying they had deleted post ,but they have edited post removing link to here.So I re editied and put a note in to send me a p.m.if anyone wants details of site.



      regards pete

mato do sell to people in europe, ive had stuff from them in the past, i did try getting a KT from them when they come out, but they would only ship to the us and canada because they were doing a special deal on the postage(free)but they will ship to the uk if you want to pay the postage, which is not cheap from canada,  the people to watch is this site http://www.mmodell.de/ they are a german site but they hear about all the new releases before anyone else, so keep an eye out here and you will know before most whats in the pipeline, there is talk of a british tank coming out, but as ever you never know when

                        Tony

got my reply back 



Dear Robert,

Thanks for your email.  I am so glad and proud to hear that there is that many tanker groups worldwide.  This is a great  thing.  We hope that the "sport" of tanking never deceases.  We will speak to the factories in regards to your suggestions.  Simply put, the just make sense.  And a BIG LOL for the Mr. heng Long Comment, that was great!

Cheers,

Joshua Peters
Sales Manager 

got mine to,   
dear cliff
thank you very much for the email.  Wow, that is really good news to hear that you have a tank club with so many members.  This is such great news!  We will speak to the factories about producing British tanks, as we understand, there is a market for.  Thank you for your suggestions, and keep Tanking! Cheers,
joshua peters
sales manager

OK, message sent:

Hi,
I heard there was a petition going around the UK 1/16 tank owners forum to demand british tanks from Heng Long (http://www.rctankwarfare.com/Forums/index.php)
As a loyal customer (who is also happens to be from England originally) I DEMAND that you sell me many Cromwells, Crusaiders, Churchills and Matillda's!!
I would also point out that there are many Canadian's out there who are also interested in buying the tanks that their Fathers and Grandfathers went to war in
Even a good early model (VVSS) sherman would be a start (firefly as an upgrade?) - Heng Long and Mattoro have generously provided us with lots of german armour (which is great) but very few allied tanks to fight back with...
I hope that our many emails give you some leverage with the factory!
Many Thanks!
Martin

nice one mart
maybe this time next year you'll see more than septons Comet on the field of battle