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Friday, August 17, 2018 - 05:44 AM UTC
CMK have announced a resin trailer for Tamiya's 1:35 kit of the Goliath remote-controlled vehicle.
Trailer for Goliath Tracked Mine
The Leichter Ladungsträger, also known as the Goliath, was a small, wire-guided destruction vehicle used by the German Wehrmacht during WW2. It resembled a tiny tank sans the turret and was capable of carrying up to 60 - 100 kg of explosives to the target area where the charge was set off. Two variants were in production, the SdKfz 302 powered solely by the means of an electric motor and the SdKfz 303 with a petrol engine. To the front line, the Goliath was transported on a two wheel trailer towed by a vehicle or even using human power. The model of the electric-powered SdKfz302 Goliath is produced by Tamiya in 1/35 scale, but as it doesn’t contain the transport trailer, we spoted this gap on the market and prepared a resin model of the trailer for you. It has been 3D designed and the master parts produced on a 3D printer.


Item #3141 will be available soon. Price: 11.50 €

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Interesting / Robin
AUG 17, 2018 - 06:31 AM
About time!!!! The only one I have ever seen was by Scale Model Accessories Ltd. made out of white metal. Nice addition to any Krad models.
AUG 17, 2018 - 12:32 PM
Nice! I think the only one available before was in 1/48.
AUG 17, 2018 - 01:01 PM
Looks a lot like a variation of the trailer that the 2cm FLAK was carried on so modifying the Dragon, AFV Club (etc) trailer would be simple. Can't remember but the Dragon offering might even have came with it, though I might be wrong on that one. I couldn't confirm it as I couldn't find mine in my stash.
AUG 18, 2018 - 02:36 AM
As noted by Buckeyes57, that is incorrect; Scale Model Accessories (SMA) release a Goliath with Trailer in 1/35 in the late 90s in resin and white metal (still in the stash!). LINK As an aside, the SMA kit is the only 1/35 kit that I know of the Sd.Kfz.303 Goliath, which is the gasoline powered version. All of the plastic kits to date from Esci/Italeri, Dragon and now Tamiya are of the Sd.Kfz.302 electric power Goliath. Although about the same size, they are completely different vehicles - different body shapes, different suspension layouts, etc. The new CMK trailer is of a slightly different design then the SMA trailer, but since the two Goliath versions were of slightly different widths, it's possible that they each used slightly different trailers.
AUG 19, 2018 - 07:03 AM
While it may look similar, the Goliath trailer is not. The Goliath was smaller then the 2cm Flak and was slung between both arms of the trailer (essentially, the trailer was stood up vertically, the Goliath secure to it, and the trailer then rotated downwards). The wheels were smaller then the wheels on a Sd.Ah.51 trailer and the Goliath on its trailer could be moved easily by two men.
AUG 19, 2018 - 07:16 AM
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