AEC Mk.II Armoured Car from MiniArt

Submitted by lukeadmin on Thu, 07/25/2013 - 09:49

MiniArt has just released a new kit in their range of armored vehicles. It is the AEC Mk.II Armoured Car, belonging to the series of heavy armoured cars built by the Associated Equipment Company during WWII.

The first version was equipped with a Valentine Mk II turret with 2 pounder gun and a 158 hp diesel engin, with a weight of 12.0 metric tons.
The kit comprises 531 highly detailed styrene parts molded in grey and 44 photo etch detail parts. Flash seems to be very minimum but still present.
Four vehicles can be reproduces with the decals in the kit: 10th Indian Infantry Division, Italy, 1943; Royal Armoured Corps, unbrigaded unit, Middle East, 1944; Tank Proving Grounds, Kubinka, USSR, 1945; 1st Armoured Brigade of Yugoslav People's Army, Balkans, 1944-45
Instruction are well illustrated, and split the build in 78 steps.

 

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