RPM – 72205 – Czolg lekki Char Mitrailleur FT 17

Description:

Czolg lekki Char Mitrailleur FT 17
wieza typ Renault – osmiokatna

Unassembled plastic model kit in 1/72 scale of a French WWI FT 17 light tank.

Kit has a complex running gear full of small parts, and included but not used in this variant, are other guns from other releases by the brand which share the same sprue, while the main armament for the model in this box is the Hotchkiss 8mm machine gun.

The big odd of this kit, are the vinyl tracks, not well achieved.

Despite some better FT 17 tanks has been produced since this kit was released, this box provide you with 8 different markings in the decal sheet, proving how successful, long living and widespread was the FT 17 design.

Markings for:

• FT-17 1st Chinese Cavalry Brigade of the Nationalist Revolutionary Army, Manchuria 1929
• FT-17 Tank Company of the Brazilian Army, 1924
• FT-17 unknown unit, Western Front, 1918
• FT-17 3rd company of the Lithuanian tank battalion, 1925
• FT-17 “Le Tigre”, No 66 562, Western Front, 1918
• FT-17 Manchukuo Army.
• FT-17 Marna, June 28, 1918
• FT-17 German Army in France, 1943.