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1/35 British A9 Cruiser Tank


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I really like this model and have a soft spot for the A9 after reading a book featuring British tankies in the desert (it may have been Jake Wardrop`s famous diary?) which mentioned that the small machine gun turrets of the A9 were uninhabitable due to the heat!

The A9 looks like a mixture of the Valentine and an A13 Cruiser! Valentine running gear and chassis with A13 Cruiser turret and superstructure.

Great modelling,........love it!

Cheers

Tony

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The A9 looks like a mixture of the Valentine and an A13 Cruiser! Valentine running gear and chassis with A13 Cruiser turret and superstructure.

You're right, but it was a very unfortunate mixture - far too slow for a 'cruiser' but thinly armoured so no good as an 'infantry tank'. They had to call it a 'heavy cruiser' instead!

A couple of years of desert warfare finally put paid to all these delusions.

Ian

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