Metch-Sword is collaborated with the labels "B.U.M. and Pobeda/Victory". All the 3 labels have the same less quality!!
Comments David Nickels
The set is #172130 and inclues a two-piece resin tank, a bag with half a dozen resin "crew" figures, a crude rubber pill box, some rubber barricades,
and a sheet of flags and posters. There is a similar set that may have the same stock number that includes a small cannon and gun crew instead of
the resin figures.
The parts come wrapped in newspaper and stuffed into the flat Bum box. There are no instructions, although for the most part there is nothing that
needs to be assembled. The tank is crudely cast in two parts; the hull and turret. The tank's gun is a piece of wire cast into the turret. The model
looks like a rubber molded copy of someone else's kit with modeling clay being used to fill in around the deep undercuts on the suspension and track
detail so a multi part original kit can be turned into a one piece knock off casting. For some reason, four HUGE sand bags were placed on the corners
of the vehicle, and two wooden crates were stuck to the engine deck. In my photos, I have removed the sandbags with a saw, scratch built a basic muffler
and cover, added a cradle to the gun, and glued a couple plastic strips to the track guards where the sand bags had been cut away. Note the back of the
tank is just a big blob of modeling clay with no actual detail. The wheels are vaguely visible on one side and totally absent on the other. No tail skid
is included either.
You get some odd, crude, rubber barricade parts with the set. I call these rubber as they are much softer and "rubberier" than the usual polyethylene
used in soft plastic figures. I do not know where the crude pill box originated, but it is a copy of a toy I had some 40 years ago as a kid. Perhaps
it was an old MPC item originally? Oddly the little sheet of Japanese flags and posters is not bad and is probably the best thing in the set.
The resin figures are rather non descript and could pass as very tall Japanese or perhaps Afrika Korps soldiers. They are not doing anything in
particular. The box calls them "crew" but they are not in tanker uniforms. One of the figures heads was broken off. The figures don't look like
(exact) copies of existing figures but I suppose they could have been modified from some old Esci or Atlantic poses.
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