Hobbyboss 1/35 French R35 Tank w/ FCM Turret # 83894

The Renault R35, was a French light infantry tank of the Second World War.

Designed from 1933 and produced from 1936, the type was intended as a light infantry support tank, equipping autonomous tank battalions, that would be allocated to individual infantry divisions to assist them in executing offensive operations.

To this end it was relatively well-armoured but slow and lacking a good antitank-capacity, fitted with a short 37 mm gun.

At the outbreak of the war, the antitank-rôle was more emphasized leading to the development and eventual production from April 1940 of a subtype with a more powerful longer gun, the Renault R40.

It was planned to shift new production capacity to the manufacture of other, faster, types, but due to the defeat of France the R35/40 remained the most numerous French tank of the war, about 1685 vehicles having been produced in June 1940.

At that moment it had also been exported to Poland, Romania, Turkey and Yugoslavia.

For the remainder of the war Germany and its allies would use captured vehicles, some of them rebuilt into tank destroyers.

Item No    83894
Item Name    French R35 with FCM Turret
Bar Code    6939319238948
Scale    1/35
Item Type    Plastic Model Armor Kit
Model Dimension    Length: 154.2mm   Width: 52.9mm  
Total Plastic Parts    430+
Photo Etched Parts    1 piece

More Features
> The kit consists of over 430 parts
> The kit w/refined detail
> Multi-slide moulded turret and upper hull
> Photo etched parts included