RPM – 72200 – Czołg Lekki Char Canon FT 17

Description:

Czołg Lekki Char Canon FT 17
wieża typ Berliet – okrągła

Unassembled plastic model kit in 1/72 scale of a French FT 17 tank, Berliet produced. The main difference versus Renault production, was the turret. Berliet designed a new turret, poligonal, simplified and easier to produce, and able to change from machine gun to 37mm gun very easily.

The major odd of this kit keep being the tracks, very poor detailed vinyl tracks, compared to the running gear, and although parts are nice detailed, mould technology is not at the same level.

As in other kits of the FT 17 series by RPM, one the good points is the decal sheet included, which allows 15 different markings with many of the foreign users of the tank.

Markings:

• 327 tank battalion of the 1st Army Brigade tank; Western front September 1918.
• German Army, France 1944.
• Finnish Army; Finland 1921.
• Polish Army; Poland 1920.
• 10BCL Ressons-sur Matz, Western Front 10 August 1918, France.
• French Aviation; 1940.
• Spanish Republican Army, Spain 1937.
• 304 US Army Tank Brigade, Varennes-en-Argonne, October 1918.
• Polish Army Regiment of tanks; Łódź 1920
• French Army Port Lyautey, Morocco 1942
• colonial units France 1939
• French tank company in Shanghai, China, the 1930s.
• “Le Tigre”, western front 1918.
• 326 American Tank Battalion, 1918.