Complete New Tool!
Barcode: 0 89195 87424 5
Case Pack: 48 pieces per master carton
Box Size: 6.4" x 10.2 x 1.9"
Features:
- Realistic Churchill Mk.IV new production
- Cupola can be assembled open/closed
- Hatches on turret can be assembled open/closed
- Inlet louvre molded w/detailed pattern
- Slide-molded turret for Churchill Mk.IV
- Intricate tools molded on vehicle
- Side fenders w/pattern detail on both surfaces
- One-piece gun barrel w/detailed hollow muzzle brake
- One-piece slide-molded lower hull
- Bolts and rivets delicately represented on hull bottom
- Idler and sprocket wheels are authentic and easy to assemble
- One-piece DS track
- One-piece bogies produced for easy assembly
Dragon has a brand new plastic kit in its exciting collection, one that will
have model fans excited. The new 1/72 scale item is a British tank – the famous
Churchill. The Churchill, referred to officially as the Tank, Infantry, Mk IV
(A22), was named after the British prime minister at the time of its design
in WWII. The tank was heavily armored and it featured a long chassis with long
track runs that enabled it to cross difficult terrain. The first Churchills
were hastily churning off Vauxhall production lines in June 1941, within a year
of the tank’s design in the aftermath of the humiliating Allied defeat in Europe.
Dragon’s model portrays a Churchill Mk IV tank, a variant that featured a cast
turret instead of the all-welded turret found on the visually similar Mk III.
Its main armament was a QF 6 pounder gun. Weighing in at approximately 40 tonnes,
the Churchill had a particularly slow top speed. The Mk IV was the most numerically
common model of the Churchill, with 1,622 tanks produced.
As the first Churchill kit from Dragon, the tank utilizes brand new moldings.
Slide molds allow the upper hull and lower hull to each be made in one piece.
This makes construction more straightforward and accurate. The suspension on
the Churchill is complicated, but the kit designers have cleverly engineered
the suspension system in a way that’s easy to assemble. The cast turret is made
in one piece via multi-directional slide molds, and it perfectly captures the
five-sided shape of the Mk IV turret. The muzzle of the 6 pounder gun is hollow
thanks also to slide molding. The tracks are made of DS, adding to the appeal
of a model that’s easy to assemble and one that builds into an authentic-looking
Churchill Mk IV!
