Part of the new range of 1:35 scale tanks.Prochorovka is one of the best known of the many battles on the Eastern Front during WWII. Tiger tanks with 88mm cannons, lumbered forward while nimble Soviet T-34 medium tanks raced into their midst and threw the Germans into confusion. The Sovi..
Part of the new range of 1:35 scale tanks.Jagdpanzer 38 or Hetzer (baiter) a WWII German light tank destroyer based on a modified Czechoslovakian Panzer 38 (t) chassis, was more cost-effective than the Jagdpanther and Jagdtiger designs. Using a proven chassis, it avoided the problems of the la..
Part of the new range of 1:35 scale tanks.The M36 tank destroyer, formally 90mm Gun Motor Carriage, M36, was a WWII American tank destroyer. The M36 combined the hull of the M10 tank destroyer, which used the M4 Sherman's reliable chassis and drivetrain, combined with sloped armour.Conceived i..
Part of the new range of 1:35 scale tanks.The Tiger 1 began production in August 1942 and 1,355 had been built by August 1944. It took about twice as long to build as another German tank of the period. Hitler ordered the vehicle be used months earlier than planned. A platoon of fou..
Part of the new range of 1:35 scale tanks.The Tiger I gave the Wehrmacht its first armoured fighting vehicle that mounted the 8.8cm KwK 36 gun. 1,347 were built between August 1942 and August 1944. It carried a crew of 5 (driver, radio operator, gunner, commander and loader) and was powe..
Part of the new range of 1:35 scale tanks.The M10 mounted a 3-inch Gun M7 in a rotating turret on a modified M4A2 Sherman tank chassis. Productions ran from September 1942 to December 1943. The M10 was numerically the most important US tank destroyer of WWII, combining thin but sloped ar..
Part of the new range of 1:35 scale tanks.The T34-85 formed the bulk of the tank units on the eve of Operation Bagration, the Soviet response to the Allied landings in Normandy, and the biggest offensive ever planned by the Red Army to date. This was the final push, aimed at Berlin. Befo..
Part of the new range of 1:35 scale tanks.The Panzerkampfwagen 35 t() shortened to Panzer 35(t) or abbreviated as Pz.Kpfw.35(t) was a Czechoslovakian designed light tank used mainly by Nazi Germany during WWII. The letter (t) stood for tschechisch (German: Czech) . In Czechoslovakian ser..
Part of the new range of 1:35 scale tanks.The Tiger I began production in August 1942 and 1,355 had been built by August 1944. It took about twice as long to build another German tank of the period. Hitler ordered the vehicle be used months earlier than planned. A platoon of four T..
Part of the new range of 1:35 scale tanks.The Chrysler Corporatin began producing the M4A3(76) in March 1944. Their first units arrived almost simultaneously in France & Italy in August 1944. Along with other minor improvements, versions of this tank with HVSS (horizontal volute spri..
Part of the new range of 1:35 scale tanks.The M36 replaced the M10 which only had a 76mm gun. The M36 had a 90mm gun with greater armour piercing capability. In the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, it gave it the capability of combating the Tigers and Panthers of the Wehrmacht. ..
Part of the new range of 1:35 scale tanks.Another tank supplied to the British under the Lend-Lease agreement, the M3 Grant proved important during the battles of the Desert Campaign. Its reliability was a marked improvement over existing British designs.With its main 75mm gun mounted in the f..