The Panzerkampfwagen IV (Pz.Kpfw.IV) Sd.Kfz.161, commonly known as the Panzer IV, was a medium tank developed in Nazi Germany in the late 1930s and used extensively during the Second World War. Designed as an infantry-support tank, the Panzer IV was not originally intended to engage enemy armor—that function was performed by the lighter Panzer III. However, with the flaws of pre-war doctrine becoming apparent, and in the face of Soviet T-34 tanks, the Panzer IV soon assumed the tank-fighting role of its increasingly obsolete cousin. The most widely manufactured and deployed German tank of the Second World War, the Panzer IV was used as the base for many other fighting vehicles, including the Sturmgeschütz IV tank destroyer, the Wirbelwind self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon, and the Brummbär self-propelled gun, among others.
Please see the paint guide below for the manufacturer’s suggested colors.
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Product Details:
Scale: 1/35
Skill Level: 3
Length: 8.2”
Height: 3”
Parts: 470+
- Painting and assembly required
- 8 sprues
- Molded in high-quality plastic
- One marking decal sheet
- One zimmerit decal sheet
- One-piece black flexible tracks
- Accurate 75mm KwK 40/L48 main gun and MG34 machine gun
- Optional position hatches
- Several optional parts
- Includes decals and paint guides for the following versions:
- 12th SS – Pz.Div. ‘Hitlerjugend’, 615, Normandy, 1944
- 12th SS – Pz.Div. ‘Hitlerjugend’, 618, Normandy, 1944
- 12th SS – Pz.Div. ‘Hitlerjugend’, 635, Normandy, 1944
- Illustrated instructions and paint guide
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Paint Guide:
Flat Black
Steel
Wood Brown
Dark Yellow
Dark Green
Red Brown
Rust
German Grey (for option 2 above only)
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