Hi all
Iam looking for a 1/35 churchill does any one know any good kits out there. if so could you please let me know
thank-you

Andrew

Tamiya is the only game in town, as far as the Churchill in 1/35 is concerned. They do the Mk VII in two versions, the standard gun tank or the Crocodile flame thrower. With the earlier Croc you can always omit the armoured trailer to do the normal one. However, the standard tank does come with extra crew figures, including a French peasant with a little cart.

Is there any aftermarket kits designed so you can make the AVRE, mortar firing variant?? I always loved the look of those. Firing "flying dustbins" at bunkers, whooo hoo! Thats what I should have asked for in the FSM most wanted survey.

Bison, check this feature here on ArmoramA, https://armorama.kitmaker.net//features/87

I'm fairly sure there are (or were) others around, at least to backdate the kit to a Mk IV.

I just picked up the churchill Mk. VII it is a nice kit, has some extras along with the tank, an extra guy with a cart full of milk jugs, wine bottles, extra shovels, bucket and such

Bender

Andrew,
I am in the middle of making the very tank youre looking for.
New born baby permitting..!!!!!
It's a cracking kit and will be great whem I can get a minute to do anything with it!!

Edge

Good morning gentlemen...is anyone else irked over the fact that Tamiya has been recycling 20 year old kits, with the addition of a new sprue of figures, and advertising them as new.........at the cost of about $20.00(US) more? They did this with the Churchill which I just bought and the Bren Gun carrier...TWICE! I love Tamiya...but I think they are feeling the competition from Acadamy and AFV Club! What do you think? Jeff

The Churchill with the new figures is a good kit and you shouldn't have much trouble finding it, Andy. I think the tank itself is pretty good for a late '70s release. I have to admit that when I bought mine I had at first expected the tank to be new (the kit# was a new one and the copyright date was 1996) so I was a little disappointed when I saw 1977 written into the hull of the Churchill. Tamiya doesn't appear to advertise that the kit itself is old-tooling, which isn't great for most people. Now, with this site and more knowledge of older releases I wouldn't have trouble determining if the kit was new or not, but I doubt the majority of modellers have this luxury. At any rate, the Churchill is designed to be motorized, but this actually works out quite well as you can make the top half of the hull removable. It is stuck in well with polycaps and there is no seam visible, so it ends up helping a lot with painting, since you can leave the top (with the big fenders that would normally get in the way) off.

Nic

Hi Bison...Yes there was a kit out there ...It was by KK castings....Not bad at all for the parts you get in the kit ...A new turret and front end ..along with the square side doors...What stopped me from finishing this kit is that I could never find a good picture showing the sliding hatch for the poor crewman who had to reload this flying dustbin from the outside...Hope he got hazardous duty pay for that!!...other than that there is alot of scratch building to do on the hull to back date it to a Mark IV...Hey the turret even has an interior!! I finally thought I would make a gun tank out of it trying to turn it into a markVI ..I take it out of the box every once and a while and look at it and say I'll finish it soon...YEAH RIGHT..

Rick

churchill AVRE.
Referances for the real vehicle unpublished can be seen at http//.www.armoured-engineers.co.uk

referance the sliding hatch what do you want.
what period are you building ie ww2 or post war untill 1955 when the last mk 4 petard was scrapped.

my farther served on them.

Ossie
:-)