The infamous three wheeled armored car of Russian fame is now available from our website (
www.blackarmyproductions.com). Sculpted by Mancha, it will be priced at $20US. The kit is mixed media - resin hull, pewter details.
Here's a bit of history from the website:
"There were hundreds of armored designs developed in Russia during the era of the First World War. Very few of these, however, saw actual production and combat use. The unique, three wheeled Filatov was one of the few Czarist Russian designs that saw service with the Imperial Army during WW1. Up to four crew (including one to two gunners) were protected by 4mm of riveted armor plate atop a three wheeled, mechanized chassis designed to maximize mobility cross country, with a narrow enough body to operate comfortably in hilly or mountainous regions (or at least that was the idea, anyway.) General Filatov's design was produced in two major variants beginning in 1916- the initial design,which utilized dual 7.62mm machine guns (approximately ten units completed) and a slightly later variant, completed with only one 7.62mm machine gun (approximately 20 completed).. A third variant, armed with a 25mm gun, was somewhat of a disaster and ruled "unsafe" by the Czarist Army. As a result, only the machine gun variants were actually deployed; all models were intended to fire their weapons from the -rear- of the vehicle. Our kit features a resin body with space for a command figure, metal hatch to model open or closed as necessary, three metal wheels, and two 7.62mm machine gun barrels, allowing the construction of either variant. Particularly adventurous types could easily replicate the "heavy" version by using plastic tubing mounted in one of the two gunports to the rear of the vehicle. The Filatov saw action during WW1 and the Russian Civil War, and was still in the Soviet inventory in the late 1920s. Sculpted by Mancha."
The next vehicle to be released will be DaVinci's tank, which is currently in tooling for casting. Garford shouldn't be long after. Tobi is also working on a Ford 3 Ton for us. Next major figure release will be our M1930 Japanese!
-Doc
17 December 2009, 08:08:52 AM