German PZ KPFW PZ BFWG 38 T AUSF.B 1/35 tank Hobbyboss model kit 80138

Warning: Not suitable for children under 14 years. For use under adult supervision
The Pz 38(t) was designed by CKD (Praga) in 1938. The first 150 tanks were produced for the Wehrmacht as the Pz 38(t) Ausf.A from May to November 1939. The success of tests with the first production vehicles led the Waffenamt to order further 325. Externally similar to Ausf.A, the Ausf.B had the driver’s curved plate. The Ausf.B served in France in 1940 with the 7th & 8th Panzer Divisions. The Pz 38(t) tanks were used by German, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovakian, Bulgarian armies at the initial period of WWII. They were also exported to Sweden, Switzerland, Peru, Iran and other states. The Pz 38(t) with excellent technical characteristics such as speed, armour protection and high reliability. The Pz 38(t) was the best light tank at the initial period of WWII. Pz 38(t) command tank was the standard Praga tank with the additional Fu 8, radio station installed instead of the bow machine gun and the frame antenna over motor compartment. Each Wehrmacht panzer division has 7-10 Praga command tanks. The total of 300 Pz were produced.
Contains small parts