Wwii Military Sherman Firefly Tank Plastic Model Kit

Part of the Airfix classic kit range, the 1: 72 scale is a smaller scale and is perfect for those models where you want a more simple and faster construction.

Skill level: 1. Dimensions of completed kit: length 110mm x width 37mm. Total Pieces: 88 A great plastic model kit for the beginner to intermediate modeler.

Primary Scheme: Sherman Firefly Vc Staffordshire Yeomanry, 27th Armored Brigade, Operation Goodwood, Normandy, France, June 1944. Scheme 2: Sherman Firefly Vc 3 Troop, A Squadron, Northamptonshire Yeomanry, Normandy, France 1944.

Painting and assembly required. Paints and glue need to be purchased separately.

Humbrol paints needed to complete the plane liveries are listed on the outside of the box.

As Allied forces began to move off the D-Day beaches and into the Normandy countryside, they knew they would be facing strong opposition from German Panzer units, including the feared Heavy Tank Battalions. Fortunately, they now had a tank which was capable of taking on the Tigers and Panthers, in the form of the Sherman Firefly, a British designed marriage of the M4 Sherman and their famous 17-pounder anti-tank gun. Usually deployed in a ratio of one Firefly to four standard Shermans, German tank commanders soon learned to look for the lo barrel of the Firefly and attempt to knock these tanks out first. In order to make identification more difficult, British crews would camouflage the front of their guns with light colored paint, giving their tank the appearance a standard 75mm equipped Sherman, hoping this deception would give them enough time to get in the first shot during any engagement.

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