This is a T-18, also known as the MS-1
http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/soviet/soviet_T18.php

There's a 10mm/1:144 resin model kit of it available, I know, because I have one...

Unfortunately, I bought it from eBay, pre-assembled & pre-painted.

Badly.

I think it's Japanese in origin, in detail & material it closely resembles the Fairy Kikaku minis I have a few of, but I cannot find another copy, nor see the kit listed with the Fairy Kikaku releases. I'm scared to attempt disassembly of this one as the resin is extremely fragile, but the skid 'tail' has been stuck on at entirely the wrong angle, and the whole thing needed far more cleaning up before painting (and a far thinner paint job).

Does anyone know the origin of this kit, and where I can get another example?

£13.95 - ready assembled, green, T-18

http://www.tankzone.co.uk/cart/min_panzerdepot_r.htm

or from eBay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Panzer-Depot-New-1-144-WWII-Russian-Light-Tank-T-18-Green-/191560627606

http://www.panzerdepot.com/eshop/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_27&products_id=312

Found the same one


There is one on ebay too

Ah, eBay.COM, the US site... Thanks, I knew they were out there. A UK site is good too. But that's quite a price for a really teeny, and not especially good, mini...

Thanks for the tanks, though!  

EDIT: looking at the UK site... the T-18 costs more than the T-35 (which, granted is out of stock)?  Those pre-2015 tanks must be really crappy...

Hi
There is also one available in this Fairy Kikaku packhttp://www.hlj.com/product/FIRM010/Mil

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

Thanks - I hadn't seen that one, wasn't aware they were ever used in that theatre.

Hello Wulf

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As I understand it one of their big outings (an experimental company of vanilla T18s) was in the sino-soviet border clash of 1929. Look up Far Eastern Railway in Manchuria.

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan