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5 cm Pak(t) Sfl.auf Fgst. Pz.Kpfw.35 R 731(f) (WWII)

By: Hobby Boss

Type: Scale Model

Product Line: Model Kits - Armor (1/35) (Hobby Boss)

500+ pcs.

MSRP old price: $59.99


Product Info

Title
5 cm Pak(t) Sfl.auf Fgst. Pz.Kpfw.35 R 731(f) (WWII)
Publisher
Sub-category
Publish Year
2015
Dimensions
13.5x8.75x2.5"
NKG Part #
2147876517
MFG. Part #
HBB83808
Type
Scale Model

Description

The Renault R35 was a French light infantry tank of the Second World War. Designed from 1933 and produced from 1936, the type was intended as a light infantry support tank, equipping autonomous tank battalions, that would eventually be allocated to individual infantry divisions to assist them in executing offensive operations. To this end it was relatively well-armored but slow and lacking a good anti-tank capacity, fitted with a short 37mm gun. At the outbreak of the war, the anti-tank role was more emphasized leading to the development and eventual production from April 1940 of a subtype with a more powerful longer gun, the Renault R40. It was planned to shift new production capacity to the manufacture of other, faster types, but due to the defeat of France the R35/40 remained the most numerous French tank of the war, about 1685 vehicles having been produced in June 1940. At that moment it had also been exported to Poland, Romania, Turkey and Yugoslavia. For the remainder of the war Germany and its allies would use captured vehicles, some of them rebuilt into tank destroyers.

Features

  • multi-directional slide molded lower hull w/fine detail
  • photo-etched parts included

    Models are supplied unpainted and some assembly may be required.