Dragon Armor 1/72 Russian T34/76 Mod 1941 Green (60150)

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Dragon are steadily expanding this range of superb models, crafted in plastic for maximum detail definition with some metal parts and finished in authentic camouflage schemes. Tracks are one piece rubber but give a good effect. Nicely boxed - good plastic display box inside a cardboard outer. Model length is about 4 1/2" (115mm) - based on Tiger 1. 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 each model. Best of all these models are pre-painted with sharp, accurate and authentic camouflage and realistic weathering.

Dragon Armor 1/72 Russian T34/76 Mod 1941 Green (60150)
Well detailed model of the Russian T34/76 WWII battle tank in plain green. The vast majority of Russian tanks were typically painted in a plain green camouflage scheme, many tanks were also daubed with slogans painted on their turrets, a practice commonly used by Russians to boost morale. This Dragon's T-34/76 bears a turret slogan that means "Defeat the Fascists", indicative of the Russian determination to repel the invaders.

About the T-34:
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.

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