Hobby Boss continues to add the early Soviet tank projects to its catalog of kits. Currently work-in-progress is the T-12 , an attempt to improve on the T-18 design. Watch this space for further updates!

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Thanks!

I'm fascinated with what went as armour back then when break downs were more common than kills and they'd hand out awards for any crew that could complete a road march.

I don't think that the crews for this tank ever got any awards for completing any marches at all:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Tank

I hope that HB continues exploring early russian armour, there are some interesting armoured cars for instance ...

/ Robin

Interesting looking running gear on the T-12 ,
especially the road-wheel bogies and shock towers
.... and whatever is going on with the drive sprocket

The sprocket looks like it has hollow spokes and the central guide horns also acts as drive pegs by slotting into the hollow spokes. I wonder about the reliability of that solution ...
What happens when the hollow spokes become full of dirt ?

/ Robin

The drawings and pix on this page show what looks like a conventional sprocket : http://www.morozov.com.ua/eng/body/tanks/t-12.php?page=def5


http://forum.valka.cz/files/t-24_746.jpg

This picture (the forum valka one) is very clear but it seems to be labelled T-24.
Maybe the design was changed over time? Switched to (or from ??) conventional sprockets ??

/ Robin

Both the pics above are of T-24.

http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/soviet/soviet_T-12_T-24.php

If you tweak the pic of the T-12 on this page in photoshop you can see it has same sprocket as T-24 so I'd be wary of that drawing unless you can find photographic evidence otherwise.

HTH
Andy

Better pics here:

http://www.aviarmor.net/tww2/tanks/ussr/t-12.htm

HTH
Andy

not a word about the track

Whaaaaaaa ? is it ?






It's a Beawee Koneco

Another neat more obscure tank from Hobbyboss!