Since intruducing the Leopard 2 MBT into service it bacame obviously that the Leopard 1 ARV was not strong enough to deal with the much more higher weight of the Leopard 2. Therefore one developed the the Leopard 2ARV which main duty is to recover demages MBT´s from Battelfield.
The German Bundeswehr has 75 vehicles in service. Other users are the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Greek.
The kit comes in a large cardboard box, about the size of typical plastic kit box. The resin parts are packed in zip-bags and are well protected by styrofoam chips and shredded paper.
The resin parts are attached to casting blocks. Attachment points are quite small and they are very easy to remove even for anyone with minimum experience in working with resin kits. On some parts there are deliberately some additional resin pins and plates added to help in casting process and these need to be removed, too.
All parts have crisp and very well defined details on them
The kit consists in: 260 resin parts 1 set of AFV Club´s T97 E2 single link tracks 1 sheet of decals for USMC 1 sheet of PE parts 2 different sizes of flexible cooper rope some plastic rod and wire the assembly instruction