Italeri 1/35 Autoblinda AB40 Ferroviaria
Description
Superb new kit from Italeri of this Italian armoured car. This version was rail-mounted and this kit includes a section of rail-road track on which to display the finished model.
The AB40 armoured car was devised for the Italian Royal Army in the late 1930s, to replace the old Lancia models. The vehicle was innovative at the time, being a four-wheel drive with separate suspensions and two driving positions.
The armoured car was fitted with two 8mm machine guns in the turret and another in the rear of the hull, but was only built in small numbers for evaluation purposes, as development of the more sophisticated AB41 was already underway.
A few of these armoured cars were turned into rail-mounted patrol vehicles as the wheels could be replaced with rail wheels. Some were used in Yugoslavia by the Italian forces and, later, by the Germans.
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