Apparently the aircraft series of Single has been doing
quite well so Mushroom Models Publications decided to start doing a series on
military vehicles. This is the first one. The first thing one notices is that it
is more of a walkaround sort of book than the airplane editions. There is no
historical introduction and just a single page of 1/35 drawings. There is also
only a single page with a color profile.
Thanks to the fairly large number of extant vehicles in
museums, there are no lack of close-up images covering all areas of the vehicle.
This is further enhanced by some illustrations from the technical manuals as
well as a goodly number of WWII photos of the vehicle, mostly from the last six
months of the war.
It is a nice start to a new series in the MMP family of books.
It is one that provides a nice selection of period photos and close-up images
that I think most readers will find useful. Well worth picking up.
November 2021
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The SU-76 (Samokhodnaya
Ustanovka 76) was a Soviet light self-propelled gun used during and after World
War II. The SU-76 was based on a lengthened version of the T-70 light tank
chassis and armed with the 76 mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3). Its quite simple
construction and multipurpose combat role made it the second most produced
Soviet armoured fighting vehicle of World War II, after the T-34 medium tank.
The type was operated by many Soviet friendly countries after the war and some
of those were modified for other purposes.