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Due to its thickness it was almost impenetrable to German tanks and anti-tank guns at the time. The model is a 28mm Warlord games resin model.

Matilda Ii Mk I Bef Belgium May 1940 Tanks Military British Tank Infantry

AUSTRALIAN MATILDA TANK 28mm.

Matilda tank gun. This infantry tank thus had a prominent effect on destroying the. A column of Matilda tanks prepare for a battle in 1940 France. The Matilda IIs ability to shrug off 37mm and 50mm anti-tank gun rounds had come as a shock to German gunners and the British were eager to put them to work against the Italians.

This is the first of many Support options for my Late War Australian Platoon in the Pacific theater. Though they carried a relatively small caliber Quick Firing QF 2-Pounder gun 40mm rapid fire it would be more than adequate in North Africa. The Mark II Infantry Tank called the Matilda II was Britains improvement.

Roll all of these factors together and you have a 25 ton tank at 15ft in length and 85ft wide with a crew of 4. But Matilda gun tanks were also used in the Eritrea campaign and later by the Australian Army in New Guinea. The Matilda tank which caused much alarm to Rommels 7th Panzer Division during the invasion of France and the Low Countries in the spring of 1940 was soon to demonstrate its invulnerability to virtually every Italian gun in the Western Desert during Operation Compass.

From then on the Matilda was used in secondary roles for special purposes. The turret traversed by hydraulic motor or by hand through 360 degrees. Each tank fired every day 200 40mm rounds and 5000 machinegun rounds.

I used my previous posted tutorial for painting British vehicle as a guide to paint this model using Vallejo Model colour Russian Uniform for the overall colour of. Matilda Infantry Tank Mk IIA and LP2A Australian Bren gun Carrier Operating at speed October 2014. Owned and operated by the BATRAC team at Oberon NSW.

The Matildas armor was a powerful advantage in all tank-to-tank engagements against Italian armor and AT guns during the early stage of the war Operation Compass late 1940. The three-man gun turret housed a QF 2-pounder tank gun that could rotate 360 degrees thanks to a hydraulic motor. With heavy armor and an impressive power traverse 2-pounder anti tank gun the Matilda had supreme control over the battlefield.

The total losses in the battle for the 170th Batallion were 8 Matilda tanks and 4 T-60 light tanks. Dubbed the Queen of the Desert for its immunity to almost any Italian tank or anti-tank gun in North Africa the Matilda reigned supreme until the Germans brought their 88-cm guns to. Thus in 1942 the Matilda declined in importance as a gun tank and was last used in action in this role at the first Alamein battle in July 1942.

In desperation the German 88mm anti-Aircraft guns we first used on land based vehicles to try and control the mighty Matilda. The Kholm battle also showed that the tank had extremely resilient armor when some were hit 17-19 times by enemy 50mm guns and not a single round penetrated the armor. In late May this tank along with French heavy tanks nearly broke the Germans at Arras but better communications and a gamble on 88mm Flak guns won the day.

After that it proved itself time and time again against the DAK XVth Panzerdivision still largely equipped with light Panzer IIs and early models of the Panzer III. The Matilda is best remembered for its important role in the early Western Desert campaigns. Despite these hiccups however once the Matilda II did finally emerge from the factory it was a formidable machine.

The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 showed how ineffective a slow-moving lightly gunned and lightly armored tank could be. During the counter-attack of Arras in May 1940 Matilda IIs were briefly effective in keeping the Germans disrupted but with 88 mm anti-aircraft guns changed for use against tanks the Germans sufficiently engaged the Matildas with devastating results. The Mark I nicknamed the Matilda was designed in 1934 and was armed with a single 30 caliber machine gun which was later up-gunned to 50 caliber.

The gun itself could be elevated through an arc from -15 to 20 degrees. The Matilda Senior weighed around 27 tons 27 tonnes or 60000 lb more than twice as much as its predecessor and was armed with a QF 2-pounder 40 mm tank gun in a three-man turret.

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