1/35 Scale – Echelon Fine Details – British Infantry Tank Mk.II Matilda – Soviet Lend Lease Tanks
Markings of Soviet Lend-Lease Tanks in the Great Patriotic War.
Although it’s for a Lend-Lease tank, not fully Russian that is. Covering soviet markings is, to say the least, pretty challenging especially exact units fielding each tank is quite the impossible. Colours of the turret markings are generally white, except for some off-white colours that looked a lot like yellow.
As per usual, all the markings are carefully “grafted” from the period photos so as to ensure high fidelity on the markings. Rest assured, same as all other WWII sets from the range, nothing from this set came from readily available “close-enough” computerised fonts.
While the set is enough for 7 vehicles, modellers can expand on this to 12 if they choose to mask and colour the red lines instead of sticking to the red stripe decals. Inclusive are 3 variantions of the fording stencils, plus some other generic cyrillic stencilings (anti-freeze type) and numerics. Some of which can be applicable to other vehicle types.