Not built a model in over 30 years so please excuse the lack of finesse. My friend and tattooist in Krakow sent me this at the beginning of the lockdown, it's from a Polish manufacturer called Mirage who i had never heard of. The kit is not up to the standards of the Tamiya kits i've built in the past but the fit of parts is very good. Some parts of the kit are quite basic as the hatches are moulded shut, but other parts seem to be overly detailed like the rear light which is about a mm in diameter (not good when you have sausage fingers.
I basically just dirtied up the paintwork (some people weather tanks so much they look like they've been pulled from a scrap yard) as Polish tanks were only in the field for a few weeks.
The worst part of the model was the horrible polythene track that came with it, i found a replacement track kit which consists of about 200 individual links measuring about 2.5mm x 8mm, Jesus did they try my patience. For a 1/ 35th scale kit it's quite small, i reckon about the same size as a Panzer 1 i built years ago.
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