Darren Baker takes a look at the Leopard 2A7+ in 1/35th scale from Meng Model.

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Looks pretty cool - you gonna build it and show us the pics? I'd love to see how it goes together.

The Leopard 2A7+ came about as a result of a company-led initiative to create a modernised version of the existing 2A6. The first 2A7+ demonstrator was built by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) from an ex-Dutch Leopard 2A6, and unveiled to the public at the Eurosatory defence industry trade fair in 2010.

The tank was tested by the Bundeswehr (German Army), and there were initial plans to upgrade at least 50 Leopard 2A6's to the A7+ standard starting in 2012, although those upgrades never happened. The Bundeswehr did eventually acquire a small number of Leopard 2A7s (also available from Meng) which differ in a number of ways, being much closer to upgraded 2A6s than the one-off trial and test machine depicted by this kit.

Thank you for clearing up some of my questions Mike as this is a beautifully done model.

Looks like another terrific kit of an awesome tank. Shame that financial considerations limited the adoption of the 7+ variant as that will -unfortunately- be the variant in demand when all goes south. Still, hard to find much wrong with an upgrade of arguably the world's best MBT.

just finished mine and love it!

Looks like it has the same sprues as the other Meng 2A7 kit with the addition of the RWS and extra armor.