![]() ![]() First, the rear part for the hull, O7, has a number of ejection pin marks on the outer surface of the part. I did not have any real fit issues when assembling the hull but there are a couple things that I want to highlight. Just be careful when installing the tiny handles to the upper part of the engine deck, these are extremely easy to knock off, loose or misplace with installing or later in the build. The assembly of the hull is extremely straight forward and for the most part went very smoothly. The drive sprockets are swapped with the ones for the idler wheels, the washers for both should be swapped. First for the road wheels, the instructions call for you to use R1 to hold them on but this is too small to fit over the pins that the wheels need to slide on to. Also, all of the kits road wheels, drive sprockets and idler wheels are attached using rubber washers and there are a couple of issues with them. This can be difficult with the soft rubber tires, as they tend to deform and paint has a hard time adhering to them. The kit provides a nice set of separate rubber tires for all road wheels but you will still have to paint these as there is a molded inner rim on each tire. However chances are that this will be hidden by the side skirts in most cases. There is a pretty heavy seam a crossed the top of all six bogies. I did have a bit of trouble with the fit of E17 to E19 and E18 to E17. The bogies are a pretty straight forward design that includes a very nice brass spring to be sandwiched between all of the parts in each bogie. The first few steps of the assembly are for the running gear. Specially, when assembling the suspension bogies in the first step the instructions call for you to melt pin heads with a heated piece of metal. Going through the instructions you will notice that some of the design choices are a little old fashion. Included in this new boxing are 10 sprues of green plastic, 2 clear sprues, a separate lower hull, vinyl tracks, small decal sheet, string for the tow cables, 2 sprues of poly caps, 6 brass springs and a turned aluminum barrel. All of the parts are well molded in a heavy green plastic and there are a large number of vinyl parts included for tires. They are clearly printed on heavy gloss paper with clear callouts. Many of my comments from that review do apply here as well. I actually reviewed a previous version of this kit for IPMS and here is the link for the review. This new release from AFV club adapts their base Centurion kit, first released in 2006, to cover this very first preproduction version of this important tank. Unfortunately, this was too late for these vehicles to see active service but the Centurion, in a number of different versions, formed the backbone of the British Cold War main battle tank core. ![]() This vehicle was also called the Centurion Mk 1 and in April of 1945, six of these new tanks were deployed to Germany for field trials. This tank was to be named the A41 and by May of 1944 20 preproduction A41s had rolled off the production line. In late 1943 the British Cabinet of War submitted a request for a new cruiser tank that could counter the threat of the German 88mm cannon. ![]()
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