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German Pz.Kpfw./Pz.BfWg 38(t) Ausf.B

By: Hobby Boss

Type: Scale Model

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

Last Stocked on 4/2/2024

Product Info

Title
German Pz.Kpfw./Pz.BfWg 38(t) Ausf.B
Publisher
Sub-category
Publish Year
2015
Dimensions
11.5x7.5x2.5"
NKG Part #
2147881663
MFG. Part #
HBB80138
Type
Scale Model

Description

The Pz.Kpfw 38(t) was designed by CKD (Praga) in 1938. The first 150 tanks were produced for the Wehrmacht as the Pz.Kpfw 38(t) Ausf.A from May to November 1939. The success of tests with the first production vehicles led to Waffenamt to order further 325. Externally similar to Ausf.A, the Ausf.B had the driver’s curved plate. The Ausf.B served in France in 1940 with the 7th & 8th Panzer Divisions.

The Pz.Kpfw 38(t) tanks were used by German, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovakian, and Bulgarian armies at the initial period of WWII. They were also exported to Sweden, Switzerland, Peru, Iran, and other states. The Pz.Kpfw 38(t) with excellent technical characteristics such as speed, armor protection, and high reliability. The Pz.Kpfw 38(t) was the best light tank at the initial period of WWII.

The Pz.BfWg 38(t) command tank was the standard Praga tank with the additional Fu 8 radio station installed instead of the bow machine gun and the frame antenna over motor compartment. Each Wehrmacht panzer division had 7-10 Praga command tanks. The total of 300 Pz.BfWgs were produced.

Models are supplied unpainted and some assembly may be required.