Sometimes you need a score card to tell the players apart from one another. In the case of the newly launched Armor Collection (which happens to have no connection with the former Franklin Mint line of military aircraft), their pedigree first points to the Wings of the Great War line of resin WWI-era military aircraft, and then, with a wink and a nod, to its off shoot, the Wings of the Great War Armor Collection. Got it?
In any event, this new line of resin 1:72 scale military vehicles is designed to cover many of the armored vehicles that appeared on the battlefield post World War I. The first three armored fighting vehicles includes a Vietnam-era Ontos rocket-propelled tank destroyer as well as a pair of legendary WWII-era tanks — the first, Creighton Abrams’ Sherman tank known as “Thunderbolt VII” and the other Michael Wittmann’s final Tiger I mount, “007”. All three vehicles features historically accurate markings and insignia, rotating turrets and, where applicable, an elevating gun or set of rocket launchers. Each also comes with a decorative display base and a handsome outer box, just like their WWI-era cousins. Look for all three vehicles to roll out this October.
