Tuesday, January 5

Preview: MiniArt's new 35th scale Tramway "X" Series Mid Type Coming Soon:

MiniArt continues to adapt some of their more impressive kits into different variants with all new colours and several details that pertain to this, the mid-production type of their earlier released "X" series trams. We have some pictures of the real thing, sprues, colours decals and the kit in our preview...

Preview: MiniArt's new 35th scale Tramway "X" Series Mid Type Coming Soon:

Tramway "X" Series Mid Type
From MiniArt
Kit No #38026 
1/35th scale
The Subject:
The "X" series tram (Tramway "Kh" – series) – is a Soviet serial standard two-axle double-sided tram built and operated from the twenties right up until after WWII. 

Project year – 1925
Manufacturing plants of the tram:
Mytishchi Machine-Building Plant, Moscow, USSR
Ust-Katavsk Carriage Works, Ust-Katav, USSR
Year of release: 1927 – 1941
Year of operation: 1928-early 1970’s
The first city of operation: Kharkiv, 1928

Cities where the tram operated:
Ukraine: Dnipro, Donetsk, Gorlovka, Kamianske, Kerch, Kharkiv, Konotop, Kostiantynivka, Kryvyy Rih, Kyiv, Lugansk, Makiivka, Mariupol, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sevastopol, Simferopol, Zaporizhia.
Belarus: Minsk, Vitebsk
Russian Federation: Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Barnaul, Chelyabinsk, Dzerzhinsk, Ivanovo, Kazan, Kemerovo, Krasnodar, Kursk, Lipetsk, Magnitogorsk, Moscow, Nizhniy Novgorod, Nizhniy Tagil, Noginsk, Novokuznetsk, Novorossiysk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orsk, Oryol, Perm, Prokopyevsk, Pskov, Pyatigorsk, Rostov-na-Donu, Saint-Petersburg, Salavat, Samara, Saratov, Shakhty, Smolensk, Taganrog, Tula, Tver, Ufa, Vladikavkaz, Vladivostok, Volgograd, Voronezh, Yaroslavl, Yekaterinburg, Zlatoust.
Kazakhstan: Almaty
Armenia: Yerevan
Azerbaijan: Baku
Uzbekistan: Tashkent
Georgia: Tbilisi

The kit from MiniArt:
A very close but slightly different adaptation of the "Early Type" from Miniart of the same tram, this kit comes with all of the same detail, and with eight marking choices of trams from historically recorded carefully picked by the MiniArt team.
Earlier kit sin this series - the open-sided X tram and the "Early" series production tram from last year
This kit features:
Kit Contains Model Of Tramway Tram Supports And Base
All Doors Can Be Posed Open & Closed
CAD drawings showing the feature set of this kit a little more clearly...
The sprues of the kit:
Light posts and street furnishings are provided with the kit
Of course, a base for the tram with correct gauge is included in the kit
Clear Parts Included
A decal sheet, of course, is included
Eight marking choices are offered in this box.
That is all we know about this kit so far, See more about all of MiniArt's kits on their website...