![]() ![]() The horizontal spring suspension and shock absorbers are accurately replicated. The gun mantlet cover and gun barrel thermal sleeve are designed by digital sculpting. The breakdown of Stillbrew composite armor follows its installation on the real vehicle. This MENG TS-051 1/35 British Main Battle Tank Chieftain Mk10 model kit is an accurate replica of the real tank. The later installation of the 750 hp engine also improved the weak mobility of earlier variants. ![]() The tanks starting from Mk10 received the Stillbrew add-on armor for extra protection. The hull front and turret used thick cast armor. The gun’s excellent performance made Chieftain famous. ![]() As the priority was given to the firepower and protection, this tank was equipped with the then-most advanced 120mm L11A5 rifled gun in the world. It was the main equipment of the British Army between the 1960s and the 1980s, and it had many variants. Much of this interior detail especially the engine can’t be seen after assembly but the full engine/transmission and driver’s station is basically a stand-alone assembly mounted on a lower platform/tread-way that is then fitted to the lower hull plate and therefore quite easy to display this sub-assembly separate from the completed model to show off the extensive details.The Chieftain was a second-generation British main battle tank developed in the late 1950s. This new kit from Meng of the British Heavy Tank Mk.V Male comes complete with full interior including a detailed engine/clutch/transmission assembly, full chain final drives, the driver’s station, full weapons stations (6pdr andHotchkiss) plus other interior details such a ammo storage. A few were also converted as Hermaphrodites (or "Mark V Composite") with one male and one female sponson fitted. Production began at the end of 1917 and the first tanks reached France in May of 1918 with a total of 400 Mk.Vs built, 200 Males with two 6-pounder (57-mm) 6 cwt QF guns and four .303 in (7.7-mm) Hotchkiss Mk 1 machine guns and 200 Females with six .303 in Hotchkiss machine guns. ![]() The use of this new gearbox meant the Mk.V only needed one driver and the crew was reduced to 8 men, 1 Commander, 1 Driver and 6 gunners. The Mk.V while intended as a new design entered production as basically an improved Mk.IV with a new 150 hp, 19 litre six cylinder in-line Ricardo petrol engine coupled with a new Wilson epicyclic gear box with 4 forward 1 reverse gears. ![]()
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