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Tuesday, January 26, 2016 - 01:04 PM UTC
Hobby Boss have published photos of the packaging and sprues for their new French Saint-Chamond Heavy Tank mid variant. Their website indicates that it will be released in the next week or so.
The new variant of the Saint-Chamond is due for release this month, and will consist of over 300 parts on 14 sprues, plus lower and upper hull and individual track links, one piece of etched metal, building up into a model 263mm long. As stated in a previous news item, compared to their previous version, the roof is now sloped instead of flat, and is minus the observation turrets. The main gun also looks to have been revised to the 1897 model 75mm field gun. Item number is 83859.

The Saint-Chamond was the second French heavy tank of the First World War, with 400 manufactured from April 1917 to July 1918. Born of the commercial rivalry between the makers of the Schneider CA1 tank, the Saint-Chamond was an inadequate design. Its principal weakness was the "caterpillar" tracks . They were much too short in relation to the vehicle's length and heavy weight ( 23 tons ). Later models, however, attempted to rectify some of the tank's original flaws by installing wider and stronger track shoes, thicker frontal armor and the more effective 75mm Mle 1897 field gun. The Saint-Chamond tanks remained engaged in various actions until the late summer of 1918, belatedly becoming more effective after combat had moved out of the trenches onto open ground . Eventually, however, the Saint-Chamond tanks were scheduled to be entirely replaced by imported British heavy tanks.
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Great news, from Hobbyboss.
JAN 26, 2016 - 04:10 PM
Great news. But the St.Chammond was a medium, not heavy tank.
JAN 26, 2016 - 08:36 PM
very cool; might have to pick one up when it comes out
JAN 26, 2016 - 08:36 PM
Note that the Hobby Boss blurb in italics is lifted by them straight from Wikipedia, which does say heavy... So here's your chance to edit the source material they used!
JAN 26, 2016 - 09:30 PM
we always need ww1 tanks, this is a great variant, looks like another on the back burner might be coming...thanks hobby boss
JAN 27, 2016 - 01:32 AM
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