Description
1/35 scale Soviet amphibious tank T-40S Light Tank, HB83826.
The kit includes:
15 sprues with details,
top and bottom body,
tower and caterpillars,
decal,
scheme for painting the model,
step-by-step instruction.
Soviet light amphibious tank of the World War II period. Developed in the first half of 1939 at the Moscow Plant No. 37 under the direction of N.A. Astrov, the leading developer of the entire Soviet line of small and light tanks of that period. In December of the same year, the T-40 was adopted by the Red Army and mass-produced at plant number 37. The production of the T-40, including its land-based variants, continued until December 1941, when it was replaced on assembly lines by a more powerful light tank T -60. A total of 930 serial vehicles were produced, which took an active part in the battles of the Great Patriotic War in 1941-1942. On the basis of the T-40 in 1941, the first self-propelled unit BM-8-24 of the class of multiple launch rocket systems on
