small armoured car (1 Viewer)

[redhugh]

Its russian, but its quirky

BA 03

 

[Harrytheheid]

Its russian, but its quirky

BA 03

Interesting, RH. Is it a plastic kit?
Hey, I saw some pretty interesting Chinese figures down at the Star Ferry Terminal this morning. No, not that kind . These were 1/25 scale and looked to be circa 1000AD - maybe. Only 140HK$ each so I don't think they were metal, probably resin. Unfortunately the shop wasn't open and by the time I got back to Kowloon, although the shop was open by now, I was loaded down with 2 shopping bags full of new K&C goodies. I'll check them out a bit more next time I'm in HK and post some photos - they did look pretty good.

Cheers
H

 

[redhugh]

Interesting, RH. Is it a plastic kit?
Hey, I saw some pretty interesting Chinese figures down at the Star Ferry Terminal this morning. No, not that kind . These were 1/25 scale and looked to be circa 1000AD - maybe. Only 140HK$ each so I don't think they were metal, probably resin. Unfortunately the shop wasn't open and by the time I got back to Kowloon, although the shop was open by now, I was loaded down with 2 shopping bags full of new K&C goodies. I'll check them out a bit more next time I'm in HK and post some photos - they did look pretty good.

Cheers
H

Saw some of those models was I was there, they looked pretty nifty and was half tempted, until my bags were full of K&C and a few Patriot, Its some town for shoppingNothing like being able to see the stuff in person before buying.Plotting a return trip, handy when the wife loves the clothes shops there
Its a plastic model kit of the Eastern Express 1/35 BA3 Russian Armored Car I saw on the web , it had the following blurb

During the 1930s, Soviet Union experimented with different types of armoured vehicles to increase the mobility and offensive power of the army. Besides tanks, the Soviets developed an entire family of armoured cars. One of the was the BA-3. It was developed at the Ishorskaja factory in 1934.

Rather than a genuinely new design, BA-3 was a marriage of an imported Ford AA chassis with a slightly improved armoured body of a BA-1 car. Field test of the prototype proved that it was significantly underpowered, lacking especially in off-road performance. This despite of the adoption of novel detachable tracks that could be installed over the rear pair of wheels to improve terrain mobility.

Despite these setbacks, main armament of 45mm 20K gun model 32/38 proved formidable (considering the size of the vehicle) due to adoption of no less than a complete T-26 tank turret, and this proved sufficient to warrant series production. After the initial series the car was further improved, most significantly through adoption of new GAZ-AAA chassis.

BA-3s were used operationally in the far east, Finland and Poland. A total of 180 were produced, quite a small number by Soviet standards.

 

[maddadicus]

I believe this car was early WW2 or pre War....The Russians loved this kind of stuff..Even had one of these with tracks..Michael