【TAMIYA Military Miniature】Consisting of about 60 parts, the intrepid style of the 37mm anti-tank gun can be easily reproduced! German 37mm Anti-Tank Gun made into a 3D model in 1/35 scale!

If you like World War II military models, you probably know the German Army's 37mm anti-tank gun “PAK35/36”. This artillery piece that was active in the German Army in the early days of the war can be enjoyed as a 1/35 scale plastic model assembly kit! “1/35 German 37mm Anti-Tank Gun” introduced this time is an item where you can savor functional designs unique to compact weapons and atmospheres reminiscent of battlefields of those days. While there is no giant vehicle body like a tank, in the gun structure omitting waste there is unique cool beauty. Moreover, not merely assembling the gun body, but attaching up to soldier figures and various equipment items is a pleasing place. Centering around a small gun, funs creating a single battle scene are packed. Not to mention people interested in German Army weapons, it is a concerning kit even for people who want to challenge diorama models.

When choosing plastic models, there are many people who care about the number of parts, aren't there? This kit consists of about 60 parts, becoming content where the characteristic appearance of the 37mm anti-tank gun can be assembled relatively easily. Combining each part shaping the anti-tank gun such as gun barrels, gun shields, gun carriages, etc., you will be able to enjoy processes where figures typical of weapons complete gradually. Especially PAK35/36 has impressive low-slung silhouettes and structures emphasizing practicality. Not relying on flashy decorations, it lets you feel functional beauty unique to military equipment. Even for people who cannot easily take time to tackle large-scale kits, with such relatively compact models, making production plans seems easy. Being particular about painting or weathering, funs expressing atmospheres of well-used field guns expand as well.

What cannot be missed in this model is movable gimmicks enjoyable even after completion. Gun barrels are structures movable up, down, left, and right, enabling angle adjustments like aiming. Furthermore, because legs of gun carriages can be opened or closed, switching and reproducing moving figures and figures preparing for battle is possible. Having such mechanisms, degrees of freedom in display ways heighten considerably, don't they? For example, displaying imagining waiting states before being towed is good, and deploying gun carriages to produce tense scenes intercepting enemy tanks is good too. Differing from fixed models, changing gun postures according to scenes is a charm. While being small-sized artillery, being able to enjoy while imagining actual operation methods would be funs unique to military models.

What is even more interesting is the point capable of choosing gun barrel specifications according to ammunitions used. In this kit, in addition to states using general artillery shells, states using shaped-charge shells appearing in the late war can be reproduced as well. Although PAK35/36 was active in the early war, as tank armors were strengthened, limits as anti-tank weapons came to stand out. Against the background of such era changes, operations using special ammunitions were conducted as well. In this kit, such historical differences can be enjoyed as choices during production. Making early German Army themes, or imagining late battlefields? Time thinking about which figure to finish into would also be real pleasures of model making, wouldn't it?

While the gun main unit alone can be enjoyed sufficiently, what heightens the charm of this product further are the 4 attached soldier figures. Because figures expressing tense situations during firing become sets, battle scenes centering around the gun can be assembled. In addition, because accessories like artillery shells, spent cartridge cases, ammunition cases, etc. are prepared as well, merely arranging around the gun seems likely to give persuasiveness to scenes. Devising arrangements of soldiers, various stories can be imagined such as moments of shellfire or scenes preparing for loading the next shell. Producing small dioramas adding textures of soil or grass to grounds seems interesting as well. From single unit displays to full-scale scene making, it is content where you can pursue your own expressions.

“1/35 German 37mm Anti-Tank Gun” is a plastic model where you can enjoy not only reproducing figures of historical artillery, but combining movable parts, selective specifications, soldiers, and equipment items. While being part structures of about 60 items, being able to devise display methods after completion is also a major point. Lining up next to tank models, German Army equipment can be introduced more broadly, and making small-scale battle scenes with this kit alone would be good as well. Fun to assemble, interest knowing history, joy displaying completed products. For people who want to savor all of that, it is an item wanting checked out by all means!