![]() Each has to be cut away from two sprue attachments, so some care will be required to maintain their circular shape. Individual armour bosses are supplied for the front of the hull. Tamiya supplies a toothed turret race that is fitted in two parts to the lower hull. The hull crew hatches may be posed either open or closed. The clear sprue includes a number of generic parts that you will not need, but the headlight lenses and goggles will come in handy. Do not glue these parts in place initially, as you may want to swing the arms to tighten the vinyl track when it is installed. Note that the idler wheel mounts are also workable track tensioners. Instead of locating pins and holes, each track features two slightly raised squares and two corresponding recessed squares on the other side. It is also interesting to note that the way the track ends join differently on this model. Even on the inside of the blocks there is no sign of ejector pin marks or flash, only a small circle on every twelfth link. Ammunition stowage is mounted on the top side of the sponsons.ĭetail on the full-length flexible tracks is very crisp and clean on the outside and edges. The two identical sponson blanks are cleverly moulded symmetrically from front to rear. The fighting compartment floor is built into this sub-assembly. The lower hull is made up from a “flat pack” arrangement of separate floor, sides and engine firewall. The drive sprocket and idler wheel are attached via polythene caps. Each tyre is moulded to the main plastic section. The pressed metal road wheels are made up from a main section and an insert for the rear. The mid-style Vertical Volute Spring Suspension (VVSS) bogie units feature straight return roller arms, packed roller mounts, and full-length flexible T51 rubber block tracks. Weld beads are subtle, and tie-downs are moulded directly to the turret. The running gear and lower hull are based on the parts contained in Tamiya’s 2006 M10 Tank Destroyer, but many, if not most, of the other parts are brand new.Ĭrisp surface detail is present throughout including convincing cast texture on the transmission cover. Tamiya’s 1:35 scale Achilles Tank Destroyer comprises around 350 parts on seven olive coloured sprues, ten parts in clear, two lengths of polypropylene tracks, 4 small and 4 large polythene caps, a length of string and markings for two vehicles. The Achilles, and the similarly expedient 17pdr Sherman conversion, the Firefly, engaged Tigers and Panthers until the last days of the war. Although the Achilles was lightly armoured, the lethal 17pdr gun was more capable of penetrating the heavy German tanks. ![]() This gun required a deeper turret, modified interior stowage and revised mantlet and gun mount. ![]() The Achilles was a British conversion of the American M10 Tank Destroyer redesigned to accommodate the powerful 17pdr anti-tank gun. The Achilles was an expedient response to this deadly challenge. The 76mm gun fitted to the dedicated US Tank Destroyer, the M10, fared little better against these behemoths. However, the 75mm main gun was ineffective against the German heavy tanks, the Panther and the dreaded Tiger. The Sherman was a hard working tank available in vast numbers thanks to American mass-production techniques and it could hold its own against its German contemporaries, the Panzer III and Panzer IV. The M4 Sherman was the backbone of American and British armour forces by the time of the Allied campaigns in Italy and North Western Europe. 35366ģ50 parts in olive coloured plastic ten parts in clear two lengths of polypropylene tracks 4 small and 4 large polythene caps a length of string and markings for two vehicles.Įxcellent detail including the fighting and driver's compartments convincing surface textures plenty of stowage includes four crew figures.Īnother accurate and easy to build replica of an interesting subject. Tamiya 1:35 British Tank Destroyer M10 IIC Achilles. 35366īritish Tank Destroyer M10 IIC Achilles Tamiya, 1/35 scale Britain > Tamiya 1:35 British Tank Destroyer M10 IIC Achilles.
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