RISING SUN HYBRID
IJA Type 4 Light Tank ‘Ke-Nu’
By: Dragon Item no: 6854
Price: £59.99 Web: www.hobbyco.net
Never one to miss a cross-kitting opportunity, Dragon has cleverly mixed its Type 95 Ha-Go parts with new components to provide a neat Type 4 Ke-Nu; this involved early Chi-Ha turrets being mated with Ha-Go hulls. It’s hard to find fault with this release, as it offers the usual slide-moulding quality, photoetched brass details and one-piece DS Styrene tracks. Sure, no interior detail apart from the gun breech and traversing gear (and machine gun) is present, but what’s outside is superb. Impressive bolt head replication decorates the lower hull, while there are also separate engine deck and turret hatches. Although the real Japanese tank was not that successful, mostly due to its extra weight, this scale version is sublime and has two suggested three-tone camouflage schemes from 1945. No unit data is given, though.
HEAVY HAULER
Soviet/Russian Army MAZ-7410
with CHMZAP-9990 Semi-Trailer
By: Modelcollect
Item no: UA72048
Price: US $59.99
Web: www.modelcollect.com
Modelcollect pleased many military modellers who prefer small scales, with its MAZ chassis releases, which include air-defence missile launchers…
