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Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 06:36 AM UTC
Roden never sleeps! They are giving us a follow-up to their earlier release of the KrAZ-214B.
KrAZ-255B - Soviet heavy truck, based on its predecessor the KrAZ-214B, made by the Kremenchug automobile plant from 1967 to 1993. Its major improvements were a more powerful (240 hp) engine, and essentially new wide profile wheels capable of regulation of air pressure. The car was used extensively by the Soviet Army, and the armies of the Warsaw Pact; it was exported to the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. To this day the KrAZ-255B features in the ranks of the armies of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, the former Yugoslavia and Cuba. In addition to military applications the KrAZ-255 was used in great numbers in the national economy of the USSR in the development of Siberia. Nearly 200,000 units of all versions of the KrAZ-255 were produced, including more than 160,000 of the KrAZ-255B chassis.

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I love these huge Russian trucks I saw this pic of an armoured Kraz.. but id didn't say anything about the truck.. Anyone know anything about it.. or have pics of it from other angles? Looks like it would make a really mean looking conversion. Hisham
MAY 28, 2013 - 07:29 AM
Nice looking decal sheet! ~ Jeff
MAY 28, 2013 - 10:45 AM
love the soviet trucks.. but the kit is for a -255B, yet all the options are for a -214B?
MAY 29, 2013 - 12:03 AM
This is what the 255B looks like, check the front fenders and the "boxes" for the headlights. LINK The boxart shows a 214 with wide tyres This is the correct boxart by the way: LINK
MAY 29, 2013 - 01:09 AM
Love the boxart, looks like the artist likes those "abandoned vehicles in the woods" posts on English Russia! Just wish AM manufacturers would do a radio/radar/workshop etc box body conversion as I just had a great weekend helping a friend get his Zil-131 radio cabin working. Oh well, there's always the scratch route
MAY 29, 2013 - 01:59 PM
next Zil-131
MAY 30, 2013 - 12:28 AM
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