If you asked me in the morning to make a list of the ten top things I’d like to do that day I’m pretty sure nowhere on that list would be “Bail out of a burning T-34 in the middle of history’s biggest ever tank battle”. What this kit does for me is to bring home the reality that many men did just that, not just at Kursk but anywhere that a tank saw action.

This comes in the usual Masterbox open ended box on a single dark yellow sprue containing the four figures. The mouldings are pretty much what we’ve come to expect from Masterbox, good detail with a little clean-up of light flash and minor mould seams, and minor filling and sanding required to eliminate the join lines when assembled.

The uniform details are very good, being sharp and clear with good looking folds and creases. The faces have individual looks  and I particularly like the expresion on the figure with the PPsH 41. The hands are all nicely moulded and the tanker helmets come with separate parts for the side flaps which allows them hang with a natural look.

No personal equipment is provided other than a pistol holster for the Tokarev pistol that one figure holds. Also included is a PPsH 41 sub-machine gun for one figure.

Assembly and painting instructions are provided on the reverse of the box giving the paint numbers for Vallejo, Tamiya, Lifecolour, Humbrol and Agama paints.

This is a very good set of figures that acheives well the sense of urgency and tension that you would expect to see in a tank crew abandoning their vehicle in battle. The moulding and the detail is very good and the poses just really help this set to take any diorama of a Russian tank from being just a tank sitting there to really telling a story. 

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