The turret can rotate and the gun is free to elevate. The turret is made up from an upper shell and a base. The tracks are one-piece loops of a rubber-like material, so you can run the model along the kitchen table to your heart's content! These are held in place with splined pins, allowing all the wheels to rotate.

There are just two road wheels on each side plus a drive sprocket and idler wheel.

Parts breakdown is quite conventional, with a one-piece lower hull, a base for the upper hull wit track guards moulded in place, and a multi-part superstructure on the upper hull. Cleaning up some of the attachment points, particularly those connected via bevelled surfaces, will require some precise work with a hobby knife too, so small children may need some assistance here. Parts should be removed using a sprue cutter. The parts are contained on two sprues with the lower hull being supplied separately.

The kit comprises 53 parts in dark grey plastic, two flexible bands for the tracks and decals for a single marking option. The nature of these models means that they are not any partcular scale, but to give you an idea, the completed model is around 7.5cm in length. This is the first of the World War Toons models that I have seen close-up and personal. The newest is this series is their Panzer 38(t). These are appealing 'egg tanks' - recognisable caricatures of a range of WWII tanks. Meng Model launched their World War Toons series a few years ago. This will be a nice parent / child joint project, or a guilt-free canvas for extreme weathering techniques. German Light Tank Panzer 38(t) Meng Modelĥ3 parts in dark grey plastic two flexible loops of track decals for one option.Īppealing caricature no glue required (tight press fit throughout).

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