TAMIYA 1/35 U.S. Armoured Personnel Carrier M3A2 Half-Track (35070)

[The culmination of the U.S. military's half-track]

 The U.S. Army has been researching half-track since the late 1920s, focussing on its high off-road performance, but World War II began, and the mechanisation of the army was an important and urgent issue. As a result, more than 40,000 units such as the M3 and M3A1 were mass-produced during the Great War, starting with the M2 half-truck, which became the first stable vehicle. It will greatly increase the mobility of the Allied ground forces. The Half-Track M3A2 is a final production model that can be said to be the final production model, which was developed by incorporating all the experience in these series of actual battles. The car body is an open-top type using surface-cured armoured plates, and the maximum capacity is 12 fully armed soldiers. The engine is a White in-line 6-cylinder gasoline engine with an output of 143 horsepower and a maximum speed of 72 km/h. Equipped with a track that covers the entire body with rubber, which is common to American-made half-tracks, it demonstrates good driving performance and off-road performance with excellent suspension and driving the front wheels. It was put into actual combat from the end of 1943 as a multi-purpose vehicle mainly for the transportation of soldiers and supplies, and fought on various battlefields until the end of the Great War. In addition to personal carriers (sopery transport vehicles), various self-propelled guns have also been developed and many are produced. In addition, after the Great War, there were vehicles that were used in countries around the world, including the Japanese Self-Defence Forces, and continued to work in the 1970s.

[Model essentials]

★This is a 1/35 scale plastic model kit of the M3A2 personal carrier, an American masterpiece soldier transport vehicle. ★The interior of the car body and the chassis part are also realistically reproduced. ★Radiator shutters, doors, etc. can be selected to open or close. ★The front wheel is steering left and right. ★With a large number of accessory parts such as 9 driver and soldier dolls, jelicans, blankets, mines, and rifles.