Award Winner Built Tamiya 1/35 British FV4030 Challenger 1 MK.3 MBT

Description: DREAM WORKS HERE Item Name: .Royal Ordnance Factory FV4030 Challenger 1 MK III British Main Battle Tank (MBT) Kits .Trumpeter Scale: .1:35 Builder:.Volcano Item Status:.Built To Order / Pre-Order Detail features: Award winner built and painted Challenger 1 with realistic heavy weathering. Classic desert color with accurate decals and unit markings. Scratch built canvas. Top building quality with outstanding details throughout whole model and very high standard accuracy on every individual part. Nylon mesh for stowage bin detail. Complete exterior detailing with armor plating included. Turret and gun details. Hull and deck details. New tracks with road wheel detail. Rotating turret and gun elevation. Adding on vehicle tools and more. * Top building quality with great detail overall. * Scratch built canvas for more interesting looking. * Add on coke boxes and many fance items. * Length: 9" (22.8cm) (measured without gun) Width: 4-1/4" (10.6cm) * Accurate details all over model of Challenger I tank and superb accurate on each small parts. * Excellent exterior features (great rivets, panel lines and appropriate weld beads). * The upper hull with plenty of fine detail including weld marks, deck surface details and more. * The lower hull realistically reproduced features some nice details such as suspension, axles, rollers separate for good detail definition. * Main gun barrel with great details and bore evacuator. * High detailed turret and components including periscope and many on-vehicle equipment. * Separately molded hatches open-able with detail both side. * CITV and gunner`s sight lens with detail. * Turret machine gun with great mount and ammo box detail. * Smoke grenade with cover and mount detail. * Turret with rear gear basket and nylon mesh for stowage bin detail. * Finely detailed deck surface and engine grille reproducing. * There are the usual bits and boxes for the upper fenders as well as tow hooks and such. * Side skirts are also separate with nice details. * The road/idler wheels and drive sprockets have detail on both sides with great tooth ring details. * Features new accurately replicated tracks and wheels. * Detailed suspension with individual link track, each with separate guide horns. * Accessories to accurately replicate desert version including canvas skirts and CIP included. Buffing and polishing to remove mold seam. Base color with primer and putty for better surface detail. Airbrushed and painted with multicolor. Adding clear paint for good finishing on decal applying. Washing to enhance the surface detail increase the appearance of depth including panels, doors, hatches, rivets, bolt head and more. Dry brushing to emphasize and highlighting texture with edge for good wear, tear and fading. Multi-color filters for blend color effects. Adding non-glossy paint for better finishing. Great detail paint job on rust and paint chips off with scratches, worn and bare metal realistic simulating, flow rust and rain streaks effects, grease with staining appearing, engine smoking and muffler burned representing. Also smear and dirt with dust and real mud and more on real-life weathering. Final protective layer for long-term collection. 2943 1 Dream Works Hobby 2 Dream Works Hobby 3 Dream Works Hobby 4 Dream Works Hobby 5 Dream Works Hobby 6 Dream Works Hobby 7 Dream Works Hobby 8 Dream Works Hobby 9 Dream Works Hobby 10 Dream Works Hobby 11 Dream Works Hobby 12 Dream Works Hobby 13 Dream Works Hobby 14 Dream Works Hobby 15 Dream Works Hobby 16 Dream Works Hobby 17 Dream Works Hobby 18 Dream Works Hobby 19 Dream Works Hobby 20 Dream Works Hobby 21 Dream Works Hobby The FV4030/4 Challenger 1 is a British main battle tank (MBT) used by the British Army from 1983 to the mid-1990s, when it was superseded by the Challenger 2. It is also currently used by the Royal Jordanian Army as its main battle tank, after heavy modifications. The variants for the Jordanian military are to be upgraded using the unmanned Falcon turret. The Challenger design by the former Military Vehicles and Engineering Establishment (MVEE) near Chobham in Surrey originated in an Iranian order for an improved version of the Chieftain line of tanks in service around the world. These were the Chieftain Mk5(P)- FV4030/1, FV4030/2 Shir (Lion) 1 and 4030/3 Shir 2. With the fall of the Shah of Iran and the collapse of the UK MBT-80 project, the British Army became the customer and the tank was further developed by MVEE to meet Western European requirements. For a short time the tank was named "Cheviot" (the name of a hill range) before becoming "Challenger", a name reused from the Cruiser Mk VIII Challenger tank of World War II. The most advanced aspect of the Challenger 1 design was its Chobham armour, which gave protection far superior to any monolithic Rolled Homogeneous Armour (RHA), then standard of western tank armour material. This armour was later adopted by other designs, including the American M1 Abrams. Additionally, the hydropneumatic suspension provided outstanding cross-country performance through the long suspension arm travel and controlled bump and rebound behaviour offered. The Challenger was built by the Royal Ordnance Factories (ROF). Challenger 1 entered service with the British Army in 1983 and production ceased in 1990 at a cost of around £2 million each.In 1986, ROF Leeds (and the Challenger production line) was acquired by Vickers Defence Systems (later Alvis Vickers). Jordan initially purchased 274 Challenger 1 tanks. Under an agreement signed in March 1999, another 288 surplus Challenger 1s were supplied to Jordan over a three-year period, which enabled the Jordanian Centurion fleet (known locally as Tariq) to be replaced. The Ministry of Defence was keen to show off the capabilities of the Challenger 1 in the Canadian Army Trophy Competition (CAT `87), held at Grafenwöhr, West Germany, in June 1987. The best performing team in preparatory competitions had been the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, although its Challengers had not been fitted with Thermal Observation and Gunnery Sight (TOGS), which would put them at a disadvantage. The Royal Hussars had a squadron fitted with TOGS; however, they had been training at BATUS in Canada with Chieftains, instead of training with Challenger and TOGS for CAT `87. Twenty-two new Challengers with TOGS were specially diverted from the production line for the competition, resulting in teething problems. At the competition itself, the Hussars managed some creditable scores[4] but overall, their three "platoons" were placed last in the league table.In a statement to the House of Commons on 14 July, Ian Stewart, the Minister of State for the Armed Forces, said; "I do not believe that the performance of tanks in the artificial circumstances of a competition, such as the recent Canadian Army Trophy, is a proper indication of their capability in war." Following poor results in 1985 with Chieftain, and in 1987 with Challenger, the British Army decided in December 1987 to withdraw indefinitely from the competition. A requirement for a new MBT was later issued. Proposals put forward for the new specification included an improved Challenger from Vickers, the American M1 Abrams, the French Leclerc, and the German Leopard 2. The Vickers Defence Systems design, designated Challenger 2, was eventually selected. This tank is significantly more capable than its predecessor: based on the same basic MVEE-designed hull, it features a new turret based on the Vickers Private Venture Mk7 design and improved Chobham armour. Withdrawals of British Army Challenger 1 began in 1998 and it had been completely replaced by Challenger 2 by 2001. There was also a Challenger Marksman SPAAG version, equipped with the Marksman turret.

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Location: Scarborough, Ontario

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