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I based this
model on drawings in Armada #14. The
width seems to be about 1/10th inch too much, but I’ll accept
it. I included two sets of track
frames. The simplified ones are for
those in a hurry to have a finished product.
The detailed ones are for those who have the time and enjoy fiddly
parts.
My Medium A model
includes the storage boxes behind the fixed turret. These may be used or omitted. I left off the
mudguards, since they seldom show up in photos of vehicles in service. The grousers/spuds were clipped to the tracks
to improve traction; when not in use they were hung from the racks on both
sides of the turret or put into the boxes at the rear of the fighting
compartment.
Does anyone have
color views of the Medium A’s in Japanese service? I suspect they might have been in the typical
camouflage patterns common to later Japanese tanks.
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