US Medium Tank T.3 Christie in 1/72 scale
Name
Medium Tank T.3 Christie /Item No. A7212/
Producer
Kora Models, Czech Republic
Packing
Carton box
with color picture on the top
Type
of kit
Resin kit +
photo-etched brass parts
Quality
All resin parts are well cast
with no any bubbles and only little fine flesh on few parts.
All of them Are perfectly detailed. Their only disadvantage is
that the turret as well as the hull is cast as full part with
hatches moulded closed.
Instruction
sheet
graphic
assembly instructions with three camouflage schemas
Decals
very good
decals for three vehicles
General Impression
Interesting, very well done kit = highly
recommended!
Note
This US wheeled/tracked medium tank was on the
top technical level at that time. Its wheel drive speed was very high (74kt/hr).
It’s strange but Christie had bad luck with this as well as other projects in
USA and only test series of this tank was produced there. On the other hand
Europe accepted Christie’s ideas. In UK were built tanks (Cruiser tank Mk.III -
A34 Comet) with ”his” chassis till the end of WW2, in Poland it was type
TP-10 and mainly in Russia it was BT series and well known T34 family.