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Panzer Aufklärungs 'Krote'
- Manufacturer: Wave
- Part number: 9
- Year of production: 2010
- Scale: 1/20
- Series: Maschinen Krieger / SF3D
- Kit type: Large scale kit, poseable with polycaps
- In-universe role: Heavy Armoured Autonomous Walker
- Build date: ???
Bought this one from an auction on Buyee.com in July 2021. It was listed as unused and unbuilt for a reasonable price (~£30); much better than the scalpers on Ebay (£100+ in 2021!!!) were wanting for one.
Manufacturers images below:
Tools Used
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Colours Used
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Thoughts
The Krote is one of the larger ground vehicles from the Ma.K universe and one of the few 'autonomous' designs - most being crewed by a human operator. The Krote is a heavily armoured bipedal walker which, as standard has a heavy multi-barrel machine gun. A variant of the Krote mounts a 75mm cannon and is referred to as the PaK Krote (in reference to the real weapon of the same name from WW2). A version of this model was produced by Wave, but is extremely hard to find:
There are also resin/garage kit conversions to make a normal Krote into a PaK Krote, but again, these are expensive:
The Krote also forms the basis of several additional designs:
Kuster
King Krote
In-Progress Images
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