SU-100 Tank Destroyer, 1st Guards Mechanized Corps, Hungary 1945

Product description

Fitted with the potent S-10S antitank gun, the SU-100 marked a significant improvement in combat power over the SU-85. Mass production began in September 1944, providing the Red Army with a total of 2335 SU-100 tank destroyers by the end of WWII. They were employed en masse in Hungary in the bitter fighting there in 1945.

Dragon Armor has recreated an SU-100 from the 1st Guards Mechanized Corps that saw combat in this theater. The 1/72 scale model is suitably weathered, and tactical markings and a patriotic slogan are scrawled on the superstructure sides. Many tanks and tanks destroyers were daubed with painted slogans, a practice commonly used by Russians to boost morale. In this case, the slogan translates as “The 20th anniversary of Uzbek Soviets”. The destroyer is painted in usual green paint scheme. This is an attractive model, and a vital asset to any collection of WWII Russian military vehicles.