1/35 Soviet BA-6 Armor Car

Description

This is an injection-plastic military vehicle model kit.

From the manufacturer:

The BA-3 was a heavy armored car developed in the Soviet Union in 1933, followed by a slightly changed model, the BA-6, in 1936. Both were based mostly on the BA-I, the most important difference being the new turret, the same one as in the T-26m 1993 and BT-5 tanks, and also equipped with the 45mm main gun. Around 180 BA-3 cars were built until production ceased in 1935.

Most BA-3 production was based on the Ford-Timken chassis, a 6×4 modification of the US Ford AA 4×2 truck, but the last batch was built on a Russian version of the same chassis — the GAZ-AAA, continued to be used in the BA-6. The biggest limitation of the BA-3 was mobility, limited to roads or very hard ground, the result of its unnecessarily large weight. The innovation that slightly improved mobility was the auxiliary (“Overall”) tracks that could be fitted onto the read tandem wheels, effectively converting the car to half-track.

This kit contains parts molded in brown plastic, and includes soft plastic tires and photo-etched parts.