New MiniArt kit is coming out soon, 1/35 #37083 NVA T-55A
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/miniart-nva-t-55a
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/miniart-nva-t-55a
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finnaly a DDR T55
Cool!
I wonder how many different T-55’s Miniart can come up with 
There is still a bunch of engineering and other variants for the chassis …
Well, pretty much any god forsaken country that did not and does not identify as western had them… so they can go on for quite a while still.
While I am a fan of the T-55 I don’t really know much about the DDR production model. That said none of the 4 color/marking options are all that exciting.
The differences are more or less down on the “nerd”-level, almost comparable to the differences in locations and appearance for casting numbers on Shermans.
Guess I’ll not be accused of being a nerd then. At least with regards to the details of the T-55A.
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DDR T-55’s came from Czechoslovakian or Polish production plants.
This one looks to be the Polish(Bumar Labedy) version- it has the Spares and Accesoires Box mounted horizontaly on the left side of the turret.
A typical DDR feature, that was present on all NVA tanks(NVA here stands for Nationale Volksarmee, not for North Vietnamese Army) , are the railroad transport chockes, placed above the exhaust.
Edit: On the other hand- I doubt the RMSh tracks, visible in the boxart, were commonly available for DDR T-55’s in the 1960’s.The Soviet Union had a vast T-55’s fleet, that needed the new tracks, and NSWP had lower priority.
Cheers,
Angel
I would love a new enigma, the tamiya had some problem