Award Winner Built 135 Solomon's Desert Eagle IDF Merkava MK. 3D Late LIC +PE

  

The Heavily Armored Solomon's FightingVehicle Israel Desert Eagle Merkava MK. Built To Order / Pre-Order.

Award winner built and painted with realistic heavy weathering. D Late LIC with has new turret top armor parts and chassis belly armor. Sina Grey color scheme with accurate unit markings. Best detailed Merkave 3 kit with top building quality. 0utstanding details throughout whole model and very high standard accuracy on every individual part.

Brass photo-etched parts and clear parts. Reproducttion of ERA armour on upper turret and front body. Turret, basket and side skirt from new tooling. Detailed tracks with road wheel detail.

Add on vehicle tools and more add on details. Top building quality with over 950 parts of great details overall. Best detailed Merkave IV kit in market. Moulding quality is excellent with detail is extremely sharp.

PE brass parts on grill, engine net, armor parts, ball chain and more. Rotating turret and gun elevation. Vision blocks, episcopes and the panoramic sight lens are provided on clear parts. Applique armour features recessed lines and lovely raised details including bolt heads, tie-downs and latches. The upper hull with a lot of the detail integrated. The turret with busy on vehicle equippment details. The barrel is a multi-part and looks very good.

50 cal and the loader's MAG machine gun are very well done. Impressived ball and chain armour hanging from the rear of the turret. The lower hull with suspension arms, return rollers, spring details. The rear hull storage racks are fair detail wise Boat hull ventral armor plate covers motorization holes in lower hull. The rear panel has the access clamshell doors as separate parts and can be displayed open or closed.

Suspension with the nicely detailed springs presented. The detail on the track links is very good. Side skirts with great details. Add towing cable, antenna, tools and many accessories. Buffing and polishing to remove mold seam. Base color with primer and putty for better surface detail. Airbrushed and painted with multicolor. Add clear paint for good finishing on decal applying. Washing to enhance the surface detail increase the appearance of depth including panels, doors, hatches, rivets, bolt head and more. Dry brushing to emphasis and highlighting texture with edge for good wear, tear and fading. Multi-color filters for blend color effects.

Add non glossy paint for better finishing. Great detail paint job on rust and paint chips off with scratches, worn and bare metal realistic simulating, flow rust and rain streaks effects, grease with staining appearing, engine smoking and muffler burned representing.

Also smear and dirt with dust and real mud and more on real life weathering. Final protective layer for long term collection. The Kingdom of Israel ruled by the King Solomon was famous for its prosperous economy and powerful military forces. Its unique chariots were the important tool to expand the territory. Three thousand years later, there is a tank named after the King Solomon's chariots and is used to defend the modern Israel on the same land.

This is the Merkava main battle tank. 3D LIC MBT is a variant of the Merkava Mk. The operational efficiency of armored forces in urban area has become increasingly important since the 1990s. 3D LIC MBT is developed.

The tank has a series of improvements for low intensity conflicts in urban area, like: protection has been added for the turret sights; belly armor is added under the hull against the threats of anti-tank mines and improvised explosive devices; front and rear towing horns have been added on its chassis for urban operations. 3D Late LIC has optimized turret add-on armor for better protection. The cheap and easy-to-use anti-tank mines have been a powerful weapon by the infantry against tanks for many years. Therefore, armored forces of every country pay close attention to landmine clearance.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) found in combats that enemy tanks used outstanding Soviet KMT-4 mine rollers. Later, they made a Nochri Degem Gimel mine roller on the basis of the KMT-4. The one used on the Merkava Mk. 3D LIC tank is the latest version of the Nochri Degem Dalet heavy mine roller. There are rubber bumpers and electrical equipment on the adaptor, so it doesn't need any tank crew member to manually assemble or disassemble the mine roller. This has helped improve the operational efficiency.