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Bolt Action: Italian Army & Blackshirts

Bolt Action: Italian Army & Blackshirts

£28.00 £35.00

Buy today and get 20% Off RRP - Free UK Delivery Over £75 Mussolini famously boasted that the Italian army had eight million bayonets standing at the ready. In actuality, the standing Italian army was far smaller than that, with huge numbers of troops conscripted into a war they neither believed in nor understood. The fighting ability of units o...


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Its diesel engine, whilst underpowered, giving a top speed of around 20mph, was less vulnerable to catching fire and had better range than petrol-fuelled vehicles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe most widely produced Italian tank of the war, the M13\/40 battled on in the Western Desert and Italy despite Allied tanks far eclipsing it in firepower, speed and protection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis superb plastic kit can alternatively be assembled as a Semovente tank. The Semovente 75\/18 self-propelled gun brings some much needed armoured reinforcements to Italian forces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Semovente was an Italian self-propelled gun, built by mounting the 75mm Obice da 75\/18 modello 34 mountain gun on the chassis of a M13\/40 or M14\/41 tank. It had riveted steel plates, which were thicker but also less sloped than in the original tank. Frontal armour was almost vertical, but it consisted of two plates rather than a single layer, which improved stopping power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou may think these tanks may only be for Italian Bolt Action armies, but you’d be dead wrong. Captured examples of the M13 were used by the Australians at Tobruk and the Germans were known to use Semoventes. The kit has you covered, including a decal sheet with Italian army, German army and Australian Army markings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContains 1 plastic tank\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eModels supplied unassembled and unpainted\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}
Bolt Action Carro Armato/Semovente

Bolt Action Carro Armato/Semovente

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Buy today and get 20% Off RRP - Free UK Delivery Over £75 Produced by Fiat Ansaldo, the M13/40 was the main battle tank of the Italian army in World War II and served throughout the war following its introduction in 1940. Although designated as a medium tank it was more in line with the light tanks of other nations at the time. With armour up to...


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