Italeri have released one new item for the diorama fan and one retooled armoured fighting vehicle for the AFV fan. Take a look inside for more details.

Italeri seem to be on a roll at the moment with a steady stream of new releases and reworked offerings and this time around there are two interesting releases which should please a number of members here. The first is

5612 - Long Dock - 1/35th scale
This is a 100% new offering from Italeri and should be received equally as well by both those into the new large scale boats that have come from Italeri lately, and as a harbour diorama for the armoured fighting vehicle or figure modeller.

The second is
7064 - Autoblinda AB 40 Ferroviaria – 1/72nd scale
The AB 40 armoured car was devised for the Italian Royal Army in the late 1930s, to replace the old Lancia models. The vehicle was innovative at the time, being a four-wheel drive with separate suspensions and two driving positions. The armoured car was fitted with two 8mm machine guns in the turret and another in the rear of the hull, but was only built in small numbers for evaluation purposes, as development of the more sophisticated AB 41 was already underway. A few of the models were turned into tracked patrol vehicles as the wheels could be replaced with rail wheels and relative braking systems. A few of these vehicles were used in Yugoslavia by the Italian forces and, later, by the Germans.