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Tango0105 May 2016 9:41 p.m. PST

"If there are any true icons of the Cold War, then the T-55 must be one of them. Like it's airborne comrade, the Mig-21, It symbolised the armed forces of the Eastern Bock. Strange then that it's never received that much attention from the mainstream model manufacturers. There's a range of T-55 variants from Trumpeter but, being from their early days, they're far from perfect. Tamiya produce a better rendition, but it lacks the finesse of a modern tooling.

Enter Takom, who, as they did previously with the Chieftain, are about to release a whole range of newly tooled T-55 kits on to the market, starting with two of the latter variants, the T-55 AM, and the one we're looking at here, the AMV. We'll have a good look through the box in a moment, but first a bit of history…"

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