P 204 (f) with CDM turret. ICM 35377

P 204 (f) with CDM turret. Unassambled plastic model kit. The most numerous and perfect WWII French armored vehicle was the AMD-35. It was designed Panhard Company as reconnaissance vehicle for cavalry. It´s serial production was launched in 1934. It was named Panhard 178. Those vehicles had rear engines and all-wheel drive. Their main armament was the 25 mm antitank gun. There were production 551 vehicles up to 1940. As part of the French Army Cavalry units Panhard 178 took part in combats in the spring of 1940. More than 200 vehicles were captured by the German army and under the designation Pz.späh.204(f) used in the Wehrmacht. Some of them had CDM turret with 47 mm gun.