Petner Parts Preview

The small parts sprue for the Petner Panzer T-72 tank.

The small pins on the upper left are the smoke dischargers.  There are no locating holes on the turret, so I always leave them off the model as I find them too hard to get the same on each tank.

The model is flash free, and includes a tank commander figure.

Compared to Roco Minitanks their only real competitor at the time this model was released, this one is very good.  It includes data about the real vehicle, wargame rules, decals and a crew figure.  Roco eventually stopped including vehicle data and never hand wargame rules and never gave you crew figures with the model, they were always purchased separately and often had to find.  While some late production Roco were pre-painted and decalled, that was many years after this model was released.  

I think this is an excellent kit, and I still buy them now and again even today.  You can't have too many Soviet tanks.