Type
89B I-Go Medium Tank (JAPAN, WW2)
The Type
89 medium tank I-Go, Hachikyū-shiki
chū-sensha I-gō) is
a medium tank used
by the Imperial Japanese Army from
1932 to 1942 in combat operations of the Second Sino-Japanese
War,
at Khalkhin Gol against
the Soviet Union,
and in the Second World War.
The
Type 89B model was the world's first mass-produced diesel
engine tank. The
tank was armed with a short-barrel 57 mm cannon for knocking out pillboxes and
masonry fortifications, and proved effective in campaigns in Manchuria and
China, as the Chinese National Revolutionary Army had
only three tank battalions to oppose them, which consisted primarily of Vickers export
models, German Panzer Is,
and Italian CV33 tankettes.
Features
include:
Holes
for magnets in turrets
Pre-hollowed
option
Open
hatches option
Option
to print tracks separately or attached to hull
2 Tankmen
The model is in 1/56 scale,
Successful
resize to other scales.
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