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Thursday, November 27, 2014 - 02:08 AM UTC
Dragon announces a swimming tank in 1:72 for fans of Japanese armour.
From the Dragon USA website:
"The “Ka Mi” was the first amphibious tank used by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and it was based on the Type 95 “Ha-Go”light tank. It was designed for Japanese landing forces performing amphibious invasions of Pacific Islands and regular port facilities. Production of the Type 2 commenced in 1942 and a total of 184 amphibious tanks were made, although the design was too late to participate in Japan’s island-hopping campaign. When used in water, large pontoons were attached to the glacis plate and rear deck to give it a top speed of 10km/h in water. These pontoons could be shed as soon as the vehicle reached land."

1/72 IJN Type 2 "Ka-Mi" w/Floating Pontoon Late Production Ormoc Leyte, Philippines 1944

Due for release in January 2015.

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Comments

That's cool that they are offering this in 1/72 scale for our Braille Builders. I have the combat version to finish, then one of these is next! Great news Tom! Jeff
NOV 27, 2014 - 07:19 AM
Here they go again! New but not exactly, as this base vehicle was released some time ago as “IJN Type 2 Ka-Mi w/Floating Pontoon Amphibious Tank”, kit #7485. Mathew Lenton (firstcircle) has a build review of it HERE on Amorama. I would presume that this “Late” version is near identical to the original “Early” release. Cheers, Jan
NOV 27, 2014 - 10:40 PM
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