Hobby Boss 83858 - 1/35 French Saint-Chamond Heavy Tank - Early WWI  [HB-83858]

The Saint-Chamond ended up being the second French heavy tank regarding the very first World War, with 400 constructed from April 1917 to July 1918. Created associated with the commercial rivalry between your manufacturers associated with the Schneider CA1 tank, the Saint-Chamond was an inadequate design. Its major weakness was the "caterpillar" songs . They had been way too short with regards to the vehicle's length and hefty weight ( 23 tons ). Later models, however, experimented with rectify a few of the tank's original flaws by installing wider and more powerful track shoes, thicker frontal armor and the more effective 75mm Mle 1897 field gun. The Saint-Chamond tanks remained involved in a variety of actions before the belated summer of 1918, belatedly becoming far better after combat had moved from the trenches onto open ground . Eventually, but the Saint-Chamond tanks were scheduled to be entirely changed by brought in British hefty tanks.

• Model Dimension: Length: 265mm Width: 112.5mm
• Total Plastic Parts: 300+
• Total Sprues: 12 sprues , reduced hull , upper hull and vehicles
• Photo Etched Parts: 1 piece
• Film Accessory: 1 piece
• Released Date: 2015-07

More Features:

• The kit consist of over 300 parts
• the kit w/refined information
• multi-slide moulded top hull
• picture etched parts included
• person tracks