Bandai
Kit for a Maybach HL 120 tank engine with maintenance crew
This liquid-cooled, twelve-cylinder gasoline engine, with a displacement of 11.9 liters, produced up to 300 hp at 3,000 rpm, depending on the specific variant. Its robust design, high reliability, and relatively simple maintenance made it a proven power plant for a wide range of combat vehicles.
The Maybach HL 120 was used in vehicles such as the Panzer III and IV, the Sturmgeschütz III and IV, and various tank destroyers and specialized vehicles based on the same chassis.
Power was transmitted via a Maybach-Variorex transmission, which allowed for effective adaptation to varying terrain conditions.
Although the engine increasingly reached its performance limits as vehicle weights rose during the war, it remained one of Germany's most important tank engines until the conflict's end, thanks to its reliability and standardized production. With tens of thousands of units produced, the Maybach HL 120 shaped the mobility of German armored forces like few other engines of its era.
- 1:35 scale
- 2 figures
- Maybach HL 120 tank engine
- Tool box including tools
- Photo-etched parts and water-slide decals included
- Tank not included
- not built, not painted
- Paint and glue not included
This liquid-cooled, twelve-cylinder gasoline engine, with a displacement of 11.9 liters, produced up to 300 hp at 3,000 rpm, depending on the specific variant. Its robust design, high reliability, and relatively simple maintenance made it a proven power plant for a wide range of combat vehicles.
The Maybach HL 120 was used in vehicles such as the Panzer III and IV, the Sturmgeschütz III and IV, and various tank destroyers and specialized vehicles based on the same chassis.
Power was transmitted via a Maybach-Variorex transmission, which allowed for effective adaptation to varying terrain conditions.
Although the engine increasingly reached its performance limits as vehicle weights rose during the war, it remained one of Germany's most important tank engines until the conflict's end, thanks to its reliability and standardized production. With tens of thousands of units produced, the Maybach HL 120 shaped the mobility of German armored forces like few other engines of its era.
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