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Item Name: .French FT-17 Cast Turret.4th Platoon,1st Company, 29th Tank Battalio, May 1940
Kits .Meng
Scale: .1:35
Builder:.Opel
Item Status:.Built To Order / Pre-Order

Detail features:

Award winner built and painted Renault FT with realistic weathering. French FT-17 from 4th Platoon, 1st Company, 29th Tank Battalion, May 1940. Beautiful Renault camo color scheme with accurate decal and unit markings. Add brass photo-etched fret, cast metal parts, springs, and steel rods. Surface detail is state-of-the-art. Top building quality beautifully detailed overall. Fully loaded interior details. Track links with road wheel detail. Rotating turret and gun elevation. Add on vehicle tools and more add on details.

Add On Detail Up Parts:
* Add on the metal chain for great looking.
* Add on the brass photo-etched fret, cast metal parts, springs, steel rods, and tool straps.
* Add on PE grill on top`s housing for great details.

Full Interior Detail:
* A interior is provided – fighting compartment, turret.
* Fighting compartment with super detailed crew seat, control stick, pedal, central and side panel, and more.
* Instrument panel even with gauges and switches.
* The hull bottom plate has some nice pattern details.
* Well-engineered engine and transmission with small pipes and tubes around the engine and many more great details.
* The radiator is also very nice looking even has fan blades and a belt drive.
* Small intake and exhaust vents on top of the cylinders cast with tiny springs for super details.

Features:
* Top building quality with great details overall.
* Open-able hatches, door, and engine hood.
* Detail is molded onto both sides of many parts.
* Raised and recessed surface features are really well done.
* Hull side, front, and rear armor plate turret with great rivets details.
* Really nice-looking turret is very well done with cast texture details.
* The machine guns are beautifully detailed
* Separate hatches and doors with great detail in and out.
* The engine deck is detailed with a muffler and toolbox on both sides.
* The running is partly supported by two workable metal Vertical Spring Suspension units – quite nifty.
* The drive sprockets are great looking with some tiny casting numbers molded on the sides for great details.
* The suspension units and wheels are well detailed.
* The workable track links are supplied as one part each providing good detail including the lightning holes.
* Adding shovel, pick ax, hammer and many tools with accessories.

Buffing and polishing to remove mold seam. Base color with primer and putty for better surface detail. Airbrushed and painted with multicolor. Add clear paint for good finishing on decal applying. Washing to enhance the surface detail increase the appearance of depth including panels, doors, hatches, rivets, bolt head and more. Dry brushing to emphasize and highlight texture with edge for good wear, tear, and fading. Multi-color filters for blend color effects. Adding nonglossy paint for better finishing. The great detail paint job on rust and paint chips off with scratches, worn and bare metal realistic simulating, flow rust and rain streaks effects, grease with staining appearing. Also, smear and dirt with dust and real mud and more on real-life weathering. Final protective layer for long-term collection.

We have different FT-17options with different prices, partial or full interior, with or no diorama base, you can choose from basic model to top of the line, check our store or contact us for detail.

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Although the honour of the world’s first tank is usually bestowed upon the British Mark I, it can be argued that the Renault FT was in fact the first standard tank design thanks to its rear-mounted engine, forward crew cab and main armament located in its fully rotating turret.

Design work commenced on the Renault FT in 1916. The FT was an innovative concept and clearly more advanced than its French competition, the Schneider CA1 and the heavy Saint-Chamond, but disagreements about the practicality and usefulness of light tanks compared to heavy tanks meant that it was not ordered into production until April 1917.

The early production version of the FT was fitted with a riveted turret that suffered from poor ballistic properties, a complex manufacturing process and the inability to fully rotate, but a later hybrid welded / riveted turret addressed these problems.

Although the honour of the world’s first tank is usually bestowed upon the British Mark I, it can be argued that the Renault FT was in fact the first standard tank design thanks to its rear-mounted engine, forward crew cab and main armament located in its fully rotating turret.

Design work commenced on the Renault FT in 1916. The FT was an innovative concept and clearly more advanced than its French competition, the Schneider CA1 and the heavy Saint-Chamond, but disagreements about the practicality and usefulness of light tanks compared to heavy tanks meant that it was not ordered into production until April 1917.

The early production version of the FT was fitted with a riveted turret that suffered from poor ballistic properties, a complex manufacturing process and the inability to fully rotate, but a later hybrid welded / riveted turret addressed these problems.