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MinimanFactory Csaba 39M A/C
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Posted: Monday, May 18, 2009 - 08:46 AM UTC
Minimanfactory have released a 1/35 scale kit of the 39M CSABA Hungarian Armored Car.



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Posted: Monday, May 18, 2009 - 09:17 AM UTC
Thanks for the news Pat. Cool looking vehicle! Unique subject too. I wonder wht the price is?
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Posted: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - 09:54 AM UTC
Very cool looking AC. looks like it has alot of German and British styles in it apperance Like it alot. When and were was it used? Eastern Front maybe? Never come across this nice looking AC before. Also what was its main weapons? Thanks Geraint
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Posted: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - 10:55 AM UTC

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Very cool looking AC. looks like it has alot of German and British styles in it apperance Like it alot. When and were was it used? Eastern Front maybe? Never come across this nice looking AC before. Also what was its main weapons? Thanks Geraint



From the MinimanFactory website:
Hungarian expatriate Nicholas Straussler designed several armoured cars for Britain while living there between the two world wars. Straussler came to an agreement with the Weiss Manfred factory of Csepel, Budapest to produce vehicles from his designs for use in his home country - the most prominent was the Csaba (named after the son of Attila the Hun) which was designed based on his experience of the Alvis AC2 armoured car.

After successful trials in 1939, the Hungarian Army placed an order for 61, and a further order for an additional 40 vehicles was placed in 1940. Of these, twenty were used as actual fighting vehicles, with the remainder serving as armoured command cars and reconnaissance vehicles.

The Csaba had a 20mm cannon and an 8mm machine gun fixed on a centrally mounted turret, with 9mm armoured plating. The vehicle was also equipped with a detachable 8mm light machine gun fired through the rear hatch in the anti-aircraft role. The crew could dismount and carry this MG when conducting reconnaissance on foot. It also had two driving positions - one at the front as normal, and an additional one at the rear.

The 40M Csaba was a command version armed only with the turret mounted 8mm machine gun. This vehicle was fitted with a second R-4T radio which had a large lattice radio mast.
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Posted: Friday, May 22, 2009 - 01:42 AM UTC
Finally!! good for them for going outside the norm. now here's hoping they follow with the couple of locally designed and built toldi tanks and spg.
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Posted: Friday, May 22, 2009 - 02:01 AM UTC
There was a resin kit of this armoured car some years ago, from Botond Models I think, but this one looks better and the casting quality Miniman Factory have is superlative.

Cheers,

Christophe
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Posted: Friday, May 22, 2009 - 02:04 AM UTC

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Finally!! good for them for going outside the norm.


Well Thomas, they are a Hungarian company after all, so a Hungarian armoured car is not that far fetched...

Cheers,

Christophe
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Posted: Saturday, May 23, 2009 - 07:12 PM UTC
Yes but still good for them, they could have gone and tried to get a piece of the german market, maybe a hungarian marked panzer? lol
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