Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 04:31 AM UTC
IBG announces the "Green Devil" in 1/35 styrene!
Cool announcement from IBG Models: KTO Rosomak - modern Polish APC in 1/35 scale.
This vehicle was used by Polish Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, it had proven to be an excellent fighting vehicle that offers great protection to its crew. The nickname "Polish Green Devil" was given to it by the local Taleban fighters, because of it's resilience and good firepower.

From the all knowing wikipedia:
"The KTO Rosomak (KTO for Kołowy Transporter Opancerzony - pol. Wheeled Armored Vehicle; Rosomak is Polish for Wolverine) is 8x8 multi-role military vehicle produced by WZM S.A. The vehicle is a licensed variant of Patria's Armored Modular Vehicle.
In December 2002, the Polish Ministry of National Defense signed a contract to buy 690 Patria AMV vehicles, to be manufactured in Poland. The main competitors of the AMV were the MOWAG Piranha and Steyr Pandur. The Polish version features major changes from the original Patria AMV, such as the ability to be transported by C-130 Hercules or to swim through water obstacles. As part of the initial order of 690 vehicles were to be delivered in two basic variants: 313 combat IFV and 377 transport/special base vehicles.
There are several variants of the "Wolverine":
M1 IFV

M3 Armored personnel carrier variant modified for mission in Afghanistan equipped with similar task equipment (including additional armor) as M1 variant. The main difference is that this variant is equipped with OSS-D open turret with 40 mm Mk-19 grenade launcher or 12.7 mm NSW/WKM-B heavy machine gun.

WEM (or MEV) Medical Evacuation Vehicle.

,b>S AFV with Spike ATGM

WD Command Variant

LOWCZA Air Defense Variant fitted with "lowcza" system

There will be 4 versions of the model kit initially, which includes the Med-Evac version among others. More materials about these kits will follow soon. First two versions will be released in spring 2015.

Please check out IBG's webpage here for more info:

http://www.ibgmodels.com/

Big thank you to our friends at IBG for the update!

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excellent news! a must have to me
SEP 25, 2014 - 05:59 AM
Have to say that I have never heard or seen of it, but cool nonetheless. Looking forward to seeing this one.
SEP 25, 2014 - 07:44 AM
Not my thing, but since scale modelling, like everything else, isn't all about me, I'm happy to see others' wishes also come true.
SEP 25, 2014 - 09:13 AM
I hope they scale this down to 1/72nd scale
SEP 25, 2014 - 02:45 PM
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