Ace Model 1/72 Soviet WW2 Armored Car BA-20ZhD Railroad Version Kit

Ace Model 1/72 Soviet WW2 Armored Car BA-20ZhD Railroad Version Kit

This plastic kit model includes a diorama base railway track set.

BA-20 (Russian: BroneAvtomobil 20) developed in the Soviet Union in 1936 on a chassis of civilian GAZ-M1 car as a scout vehicle. The BA-20's tires were designed to be resistant to bullets and shrapnel by the simple expedient of filling them with spongy rubber. A variant, the BA-20ZhD, could travel on railway lines by replacing normal wheels with flanged metal rail-type wheels. Dozens Ba-20Zhd were captured by Germans and used as a scout and anti-partisan cars (designated Pz. Spwg. 202(r))