Barcode: 0 89195 60367 8
Case Pack: 24 Pieces per master case (2 inners on 12)
Box Size: 7.2" x 3.1" x 3.7"
Features:
- Open window display packaging
- Highly popular and collectible item
- True to 1/72 scale
- Fully accurate mold
- Fully assembled
- Includes protective display case
The Sherman tank saw widespread Allied use in WWII, but its original 75mm gun
was inadequate for taking on heavily armored German tanks like the Panther and
Tiger. With remarkable foresight the British decided to fit a 17pdr antitank
gun, able to penetrate a Tiger I’s frontal armor at 1000m, to the Sherman. Thus
the Firefly was born, with approximately 2200 eventually produced. Most Fireflies
were adapted from the M4A4 and were known as the Firefly VC (“C” denoting the
17pdr gun), while a smaller number were converted from the older M4 and were
called Firefly IC.
Dragon Armor is proud to announce its first ever Firefly Ic. Based on the Sherman
I (M4), it has a cast one-piece differential housing and a characteristic turret
stowage box – this housed the radio equipment that was displaced by fitting
the larger gun. The turret and lower hull are brand new castings that capture
the characteristic look of this Sherman variant. Painted in a standard green
camouflage scheme, the tank is finished in the markings of a Polish Firefly
from the 2nd Squadron, 1st Krechowiecki Lancers, 2nd Armoured Brigade, of the
2nd “Warsaw” Armored Division. This particular tank christened “Rycerz I” served
in Italy in 1945. This new scale model, the first Firefly IC of its kind in
the Dragon Armor range, is more than ready to take on its German counterparts
in a duel!
