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Churchill Tank in Russian Service
Sabot
Joined: December 18, 2001
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Posted: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 06:22 AM UTC
Does anyone know what kit would be good to do a Russian Churchill (1/35)?
E23C
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Ontario, Canada
Joined: January 23, 2002
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Posted: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 09:01 AM UTC
The only 1/35th kit of the Churchill I know of is the Tamiya,first issued as the Crocodile flame thrower,then reissued as a regular Churchill Gun tank.Not sure which versions the Soviets recieved under Lend-Lease probably some of every version.
Sabot
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Posted: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 09:10 AM UTC
The Russian Churchills were Mark IIIs. Was hoping there was another besides the Tamiya kit.
Posted: Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 02:13 AM UTC
Interesting!
I didn't even know that the Russians used the Churchill! I've had a look at numerous Stores and unfortunately no joy! What about a conversion job?
Sabot
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Posted: Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 06:53 AM UTC
Only 301 were sent and 43 were lost in transit (ship sunk).
210cav
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Virginia, United States
Joined: February 05, 2002
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Posted: Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 07:59 AM UTC
Rob--if the Churchill does not faithfully replica the issued vehicle would you have better luck using the Tamiya Cruiser series to represent Russian Lend Lease vehicles. The photos I just looked at do not convey that there are significant structual alterations.
Just a thought.
DJ
Posted: Friday, March 15, 2002 - 12:34 PM UTC
I have done several lend lease projects and in my research the sviets also had a few of the crocidile model churchills minus the flamethrower and trailer ,resicast is the only other 1/35 churchills on the market.
TreadHead
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Joined: January 12, 2002
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Posted: Saturday, March 16, 2002 - 07:11 AM UTC
Howdy modelmaniac,
Allow me to bid you a warm welcome to Armorama.com! You may have stumbled upon our site, but you will find that it was a fortunate stumble. The guys here are the best you'll find in the armour modeling community.
Do you have any pics of your models? If so, contact Jim for info on posting them.

Tread.
Posted: Saturday, March 16, 2002 - 10:25 AM UTC
Thanks for the welcome Treadhead,your right really like the site,yes i have pics of some of my models and will post them as soon as i can remember where i put the discs i stored them on,lol Happy Modeling
modelmaniac
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