Dragon's expanding range of superb detailed models made in plastic for maximum detail definition and some metal parts. Finished in authentic camouflage schemes, tracks are one piece rubber giving a good effect and comes in its own plastic display box inside a cardboard outer. Most have rotable turrets and a gun that elevates. Fine detail incudes ropes, shackles and tools carried on the chassis, plus smoke dischargers, machine guns and external petrol tanks appropriate for the model. Best of all these models are pre-painted with sharp, accurate and authentic camouflage and realistic weathering.
Dragon Armor 1/72 T34/76 Mod 1940 Camouflage (60149)
A highly detailed model of the Russian T-34/76 tank. Featuring a rotating turret and
posable main gun, plus authentic camouflage for the 1st Moscow Motorized Rifle Division in
July 1941. The model is lightly weathered to enhance the detailing.
The ancestry of the T-34 derives from the BT series of fast tanks developed in the USSR in the 1930s. These were discovered to be too lightly armoured and armed for the sort of combat that would be expected. The T-34 took the BT's Christie-type suspension and incorporated it into a much more robust tank (The BTs were derived from prototype fast tanks built by American tank designer J. Walter Christie, which were sold to the Soviet Union after the American military declined to buy them. The T-34 incorporates elements of the Christie suspension, in particular the large road wheels). Development proper commenced in 1936, and a prototype was completed in 1939. Full scale production started in 1940. The T-34 was produced in two major variants, the basic T-34/76 with a 76-mm gun (simply called T-34, in Soviet service), and the T-34/85 with an 85-mm gun. Between 1940 and 1944 nearly 40,000 T-34/76 tanks were produced.
Stock:
Website: 7 Available from shops: Cardiff: 1, Coventry: 1, Gloucester: 2, Plymouth: 1, Sheffield: 2 (explain )
(Prod Ref #49657)
Price: £11.99