Award winner built the T-80U with great overall details of mode. Beautiful camo color scheme with top building quality. Total 428 parts (391 parts in grey styrene, 33 etched brass, 2 flexible tracks, 1 length of twisted copper wire, 1 clear styrene). Adding ERA and the lot`s turret equipment device. Reactive armor with incredible detail. Finely detailed deck surface and side skirts. Great details on the machine gun. Adding a gas drum, tow cable, and more accessories.

* Top building quality.
* Moulding quality is excellent with clean, crisp detail on the parts.
* PE frets, which include the screens, skirt, handle,e and many more.
* Surface details are very well done with a mix of engraved/recessed details, weld lines, raised detail, bolt, and rivet detail.
* Cast texturing and flush screws on the turret for a good overall appearance.
* Added inside the turret shell are the Commander’s and Gunner’s sight panels.
* The Commander’s hatch has excellent detail on both sides of the opening half as well as a very detailed main sight.
* Hatch with seven separate periscopes on the inside and outside plus a grab handle and latch on the inside, quite detailed.
* The main gun tube with the thermal jacket is molded in one piece apart from the separate muzzle cap with great detail.
* The smoke dischargers have separate caps, which improve the look a lot.
* The mantlet has nice texture on the canvas cover
* Brass etched bolt ring fitted between the mantlet and barrel tube.
* The main sight has a small etched backplate.
* Two large Kontakt 5 ERA sub-assemblies`s detail is very well done with a separate part for the lower ‘flap’ sections.
* Also supplied is the large electrical ducting piping on the turret roof leading to the smoke tubes with great detail.
* The large front searchlight is a fairly detailed.
* Smaller details added to the turret include four weapons pedestals, small lights and the gunner’s sight for a very busy appearance of the turret.
* The Kord 12.7mm Heavy Machine Gun is a very nice molding with great detail.
* The multi-part snorkel tube is nicely detailed and matches reference photos well.
* The main wading trunk is an impressive single large molding that has the angled intake and the lower rectangular.
* Added to the top of the truck is a preformed etched domed mesh cover and an outer etched ring.
* The lower hull with lot`s excellent detail, with floor, sides, and lower front and rear plates included.
* The engine deck has excellent details, including raised and engrave detail as well as open intake grills for a nice appearance.
* Detail on the idlers, road wheels and drive sprockets is very well done and matches the real things well.
* The road wheel has inner and outer wheels with a separate hub cap, the wheels have the correct dish profile and nicely represented rim bolts.
* Rubber mold line around the center of the tyre, which is present on the actual tyre to show well-worn tires.
* The drive sprockets are also nicely detailed, with the spoke outer sprocket with good definition on the outer bolts.
* Correctly shaped inner solid sprocket disc, the final drive housings are also correctly shaped with the sprockets.
* There is an etched mud scraper bar for the drive sprockets.
* Full-length vinyl-type tracks with very good detail on both.
* Link detail and the fully hollowed-out guide horns, which do look impressive for vinyl.
* APU (Auxiliary Power Unit) is made up of eight parts with great detail.
* The brass mud flaps for the best detail finish.
* The two multipart head lights and taillights with great detail.
* The bullet splash guard in the glacis is moulded nicely and thin and the tow hooks.
* Small position lights and driver’s pericopes and top cover w/detail.
* The large central exhaust box has four parts with nice details.
* Small brass etched brackets to add along the hull sides to hold the cables in place.
* The ammo boxes and other details added to the truck for a great finish.
* Fuel drums have good detail.
* Tow cables supplied as metal cables with great detail.
* Adding tools and more accessories.

Airbrushed and painted, base color with primer for better detail and shading, multi-color filters for blend color effects, oil and water wash with panels, doors, rivets finishing, detail paint job on rust and paint chips off with scratches looking, worn and bare metal realistic simulating, flow rust and rain streaks effects, great exhaust grill representing, also smear and dirt with mud and dust appearing, dry brushing to emphasis and highlighting texture with edge for good wear and fading, more on real live heavy weathering with decals and unit markings, final protective layer for long term collection.

Discontinued high-priced kit, the price may be higher or lower when you order, a good chance to have a rare kit with high building quality model. But if you really want to have a lower price, just switch to other kits or check or store and contact us for details.