Darren Baker takes a look at the Carro Veloce 3/33 Tankette Series II (Early production) from Bronco Models.

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Darren, you have been really very busy. Nice reivew on this. That is a lot of detail for the size of the kit.

This appears to be a very nice little kit. It's really about time that the CV-series has gotten a decent, state-of-the-art kit.

Technically not the most earth-shaking AFV ever fielded (in more ways than one!), but historically, it was very important. The CV-series was the most produced and widely fielded Italian AFV during the pre- and wartime periods.

I'm definitely adding one of these to the shelf.

It'd be very nice to see a Bronco-quality kit from the M13-M15 series of medium tanks. The old Italeri and Tamiya (to include their re-release) kits are showing their age (70's kit design and engineering), and both of Tamiya's kits are wildly inaccurate by today's standards.

Nice "Mini"-Tank..

This is not the first CV-3 to come out in Plastic. Bronco has had CV-3/33 and 35 kits out for several years now although this kit has been upgraded with new parts. One of the problems I had with the older versions were interior details that couldn't be seen due to molded closed hatches such as the transmission and radiator. Well the transmission hatch is now open but not the radiator. I just received my kit today and haven't gone over it too closely but there are a lot of extra parts so I will look to see if some of the other "detail" inaccuracies have been fixed as well. My only other gripe with the kit are the tracks as I really don't care for length and link tracks (I like link to link) as I could never seem to get them to fit right but the links are so small I think this is probably the best way (although I did put together Model Kasten's Type 94 links).





I agree 150%.

Roy

This does appear to be the initial Bronco release, with some additional parts. Half of the differently coloured plastic looks to be the interior, but can't say with any certainty that this is all new moldings.

What I do see new is the addition of the tripod on the rear deck, and the sand shield covering the rear idler. New decal set, and the PE fret also looks to have a few more pieces. Would of loved to have seen added the Regio Esercito vehicle badge, and it would of fit nicely on the PE fret which is currently occupied by an empty hole.

Not sure why they released this, but I guess there must be the demand out there. Anyone wanting to update their first boxing had a number of choices via the resin upgrades produced by Brach Model.

regards,
Jack