Amusing Hobby 35A038 1/35 T-72M1 Full Interior AMUSING HOBBY

T-72M1 (with Full Interior)

When the Soviets came out with the T-72 tank in 1973 – and after a prolonged fight within the Politburo and Ministry of Defense to put the tank into production – it did not take long before Soviet customer states to include the Warsaw Pack began asking for their own versions of the new tank. In 1978 they began to offer the export models of the tank as the Object 172M-Eh (for Ehksport) series. But they also did not want to offer the best versions of the tank so two model lines were developed: one for Warsaw Pact members and one for third world customers.

In 1981 a new model, the T-72M, was offered with the Object 172M-Eh3 going to the Pact and the –Eh4 to the third world. This was also the first one offered for foreign production in the CSSR and Poland. It was similar to the Soviet T-72A but as noted did not have as good an armor package.

Finally, another upgraded version was offered in 1983 as the T-72M1 with the Object 172M-Eh5 going to the Pact. These had a new turret design and a new appliqué plate on the glacis to provide additional protection; while the Pact tanks appear to have had silicon rods in the turret to provide better HEAT projectile resistance the Eh6 models did not – just a monolithic armor turret. But both models could be identified by a bulge up to 90mm thick in its center, located just below the cable runs for the Type 902A “Tucha” smoke grenade launchers.

Specifications

• 1,606 parts

• 699 in light brown styrene

• 590 in dark green styrene

• 264 in grey styrene

• 34 etched brass

• 17 clear styrene

• 2 resin parts (figure)

• 1 length of vinyl coated wire

• 1 length of black nylon thread