I wanted to build something completely different and after the USMC Sherman project I thought, “why not a Japanese tank?”  Finemolds released this kit in 1/35 scale a few years back and I thought this would work.  The clincher was the fact it was designed to counter the Sherman tank.  What other vehicle can really say that?  I plan to use a PZIII as the basis and add scratch-built details.  Lets see how far I get!  

The Type 3 was based on the earlier Type 97.  A new Turret mounting a 75mm anti tank gun gave the vehicle good firepower compared to the previous 47mm armed tanks.  60 examples were built to defend homeland Japan in 1945.

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