RE: Tamiya M1A2
I vote YES and would like to build a hardcore Abrams with a functioning "Full Width Mine Plow/Combat Dozer Blade Package". Hint, hint Tamiya.
Maybe, now is a good time to add some depth to an already great Tamiya rc tank product line.
Perhaps, Tamiya marketeers and product designers might want to dust off their copy of "Jane's Tank Recognition Guide" and explore developing a "complete product line" of modern MBTs manufactured by different nations from around the world, as they have done for WWII Armor.
As to the WWII and Korean Era Shermans, perhaps Tamiya would consider it a "marketing franchise" unto itself and offer a complete line of after market Tamiya "HOP-UP" Kits (at reasonable prices) to "plus" the outstanding 56014 Sherman RC 1/16 Scale Kit. The Sherman Hop-Ups could include suspension kit alternatives, as well as hull and turret options, pioneer tool kits, march gear, etc, to better model and create early, mid and late variants plus Tank Destroyer variants.
Hopefully, more great modern era armor kits will be released by Tamiya and at this point, as a historical modeler, I have pretty much satisfied my interest in WWII 1/16 scale armor.