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World War One FRENCH ARMY |
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The OG version of the French army’s first true tank, the St Chamond. This is one of the earlier versions of the tank; the later version had the armor over the track removed to prevent the tracks from getting clogged with mud and dirt. The flat roof (good for hand grenades – bad for tankers) was redesigned and given a pitch. The tank was very well armed having 4 Hotchkiss heavy machine-guns and a 75mm gun. These “land ships” were not very good at crossing trenches, in one battle all but one of 16 tanks got stuck in the first line of trenches.
Several Old Glory infantry keeping up with the slow advance of the armored behemoth .
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I painted the tank with a 3 color camo pattern that was used during WWI.
The OG St. Chamond tank model kit consists of a large solid chunk resin. There were several rather thick mold lines on the bottom of my model. As you can see from the photos I didn’t do such a great job in smoothing these out. Also in the kit there are metals bits for the tracks, 75mm gun, the exhaust system and 4 “rod” machine-gun. The lead machine gun I replaced with brass rod so they won’t bend that easily.
This is a good kit for the price, I plan on getting the other later version of the St Chamond soon. |
