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Here's my break from airoplaney things

The armoured trains used on the Easter Front have an interesting background. They've played a part in every 20th century conflict in the area from WWI, the Polish-Soviet war, WWII and most recently Nagorno-Karabak.

In some ways fighting on the steppes is analogous to the island hopping of the Pacific Theatre of WWII. Point strategic objectives surrounded by lots and lots of empty. Sea lanes connected the islands, and railways the towns. Armoured trains were like cruiser squadrons, keeping the ways open. And like them, they were subject to mining and vulnerable to airpower.

The Panzerjaegerwagen modeled here was basically a Pzkw III turret mounted on an armoured flatcar. It was intended to add more direct fire and defense against Soviet tanks.

The kit is 8 A4 pages of card with 4 more of mixed instuctions and patterns for 1mm formers. Not a huge amount of detail, but then it's supposed to be a fairly featureless. In any case it has a definite tank-ness about it - but with far fewer wheels and much simpler tracks<g>