UPC Code: 4950344370207

This is an Italeri model kit of the M24 Chaffee packaged in a Tamiya box with Tamiya instructions, plus a figure, a host of accessories, and even new and remolded parts. The M24 Chaffee was officially adopted in 1944 as a successor to the M3/5 Stuart light tanks. It was equipped with the compact 75mm gun (originally developed for the B25 Mitchell bomber) and - somewhat unusually for a U.S. AFV - torsion bar suspension. It made it into service in Europe before the cessation of hostilities in WWII, and served on and on through the Korean War and - in some places - even into the 1980s.

Specifications

• 1/35 scale plastic model assembly kit.
• Highly detailed plastic pieces molded in olive green and gray.
• Precision metal gun barrel.
• Assembly-type WWII tracks with single-piece straight sections.
• Turret has newly added WWII antenna base parts and weld lines.
• Accessories include M2, ammunition boxes, bags, folded sheet and jerry cans.
• 1 commander torso figure.
• Waterslide decals.
• Illustrated instruction.
• One decal sheet with markings for 2 versions
  • 1) 81st Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 1st Amored Division, Italy, April 1945
  • 2) Unit unknown, Germany, January 1945

Requirements

• Assembly
• Hobby knife
• Cement for plastics
• Sprue cutters
• Paint (Olive Drab, Black, Red, Gunmetal, Aluminum, Flat White, Flat Flesh, Khaki, Flat Earth, Buff, Dark Yellow, Red Brown, Dark Iron, Rubber Black)