![]() Tamiya’s 1:35 scale Achilles Tank Destroyer comprises around 350 parts on seven olive coloured sprues, ten parts in clear, two lengths of polypropylene tracks, 4 small and 4 large polythene caps, a length of string and markings for two vehicles. The Achilles, and the similarly expedient 17pdr Sherman conversion, the Firefly, engaged Tigers and Panthers until the last days of the war. Although the Achilles was lightly armoured, the lethal 17pdr gun was more capable of penetrating the heavy German tanks. ![]() This gun required a deeper turret, modified interior stowage and revised mantlet and gun mount. The Achilles was a British conversion of the American M10 Tank Destroyer redesigned to accommodate the powerful 17pdr anti-tank gun. The Achilles was an expedient response to this deadly challenge. The 76mm gun fitted to the dedicated US Tank Destroyer, the M10, fared little better against these behemoths. However, the 75mm main gun was ineffective against the German heavy tanks, the Panther and the dreaded Tiger. ![]() The Sherman was a hard working tank available in vast numbers thanks to American mass-production techniques and it could hold its own against its German contemporaries, the Panzer III and Panzer IV. The M4 Sherman was the backbone of American and British armour forces by the time of the Allied campaigns in Italy and North Western Europe. 35366ģ50 parts in olive coloured plastic ten parts in clear two lengths of polypropylene tracks 4 small and 4 large polythene caps a length of string and markings for two vehicles.Įxcellent detail including the fighting and driver's compartments convincing surface textures plenty of stowage includes four crew figures.Īnother accurate and easy to build replica of an interesting subject. Tamiya 1:35 British Tank Destroyer M10 IIC Achilles. 35366īritish Tank Destroyer M10 IIC Achilles Tamiya, 1/35 scale ![]() Britain > Tamiya 1:35 British Tank Destroyer M10 IIC Achilles. ![]()
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