";s:4:"text";s:2821:" This is an all new tooled model of the British Valentine Infantry tank in 1/35 scale. The Bronco offering of the Valentine tank comes fully packed in a sturdy box.
• 8th Royal Tank Regiment, 23rd Armoured Brigade, 30th Corps, Cyrenaique (Bardia), Libya, December 1942. The finished model looked good when compared to the drawings and photos in my primary reference, Tank Power Vol.
The decals laid down nicely over a coat of clear gloss. 35352.
British armor doctrine in the 1930s up to the outbreak of WWII called for 2 types of tank - more mobile cruiser tanks and heavy, slow infantry tanks.
• 8th Royal Tank Regiment, 1st Armoured Brigade, Libya, June 1941. The Valentine was a prolifically produced example of the latter (7,315 units, more than 30% of British tank production in WWII). Box contents Includes: Plastic sprue, Rope, Decalsheet (waterslide), Vinyl Markings Matilda Mk.III/IV British Army (1160-now) 32 Army Tank Brig. Details, a wide range of product can be printed with these products more detailed. What makes this one a bit of an oddity is that the 17-pdr gun and the fighting compartment face backwards firing over the rear of the vehicle.
Initial Assessment. A note on this version is that this very tank is in Bovington Tank Museum and is listed as Infantry Tank Mk III Valentine Mk II and this is a Valentine Mk I.
Unfollow 1/35 tamiya valentine to stop getting updates on your eBay Feed. T6968 Phantom | World War 2 - North Africa 1941 | Light Blue, Dessert Yellow, Olive Drab 49 Royal Tank Reg., 35 Army Tank Brig. The Mk.II. A Valentine Mk.II with simple side skirts mounted. This version appeared in 1941 and twice as many were completed (700 for some sources, but for Osprey publuishing this was 1,511 Mk.II’s were built with 350 being built by Vickers, 494 by Metropolitan Cammell, and 667 being built by Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company). The Tank, Infantry, Mk III, Valentine was an infantry tank produced in the United Kingdom during the Second World War.More than 8,000 of the type were produced in eleven marks, plus various specialised variants, accounting for approximately a quarter of wartime British tank production.
T6949 Defiance | World War 2 - Libya 1941 | Light Blue, Dessert Yellow, Brown 42 Royal Tank Reg., 1 Army Tank Brig. At the time, I thought I had died and gone to heaven: superb parts fit, excellent detail, the … Tamiya British Valentine Mk.II/IV Infantry Tank Mk.III 1:35. Review by Chris Evans.