Trumpeter 05579 1/35 Soviet MT-LB 6MA

This is a plastic model kit, which comes unassembled and unpainted. So glue, model paints and other basic modelling tools are additionally required.

In the 1970s the Soviet began a development program to replace the AT-P series of artillery tractors (which were based on the ASU-57 airborne self-propelled gun) with a new generation of vehicles. The MT-L was developed to meet this requirement based on the PT-76 amphibious light tank chassis. The MT-LB is the armoured variant of the MT-L. Entering production in the early 1970s, it was cheap to build, being based on many existing components like the engine which was originally developed as a truck engine. It was built at the Kharkov tractor plant and under license in Poland and Bulgaria

MT-LB 6MA?MT-LBM fitted with a turret from BTR-80.

MT-LB 6MB?MT-LBM fitted with a turret from BTR-80A

The kit consists of over 1100 parts
- the kit with refined detail
- multi-slide moulded lower hull, upper hull
- 228 individual tracks links
- photo-etched parts included