MiniArt 1/35 British Tank Crew Winter Uniform (35121)

The North-West European campaign of 1944–45 brought British armoured crews into the coldest winter fighting of the Western theatre — the Ardennes relief, the Reichswald, the crossing of the Rhine in conditions far removed from the dust of the desert campaigns that many veteran crews had survived. Winter dress in the British Army was improvised and layered: the leather jerkin over battledress, the balaclava under the black beret, the sheepskin coat scavenged wherever it could be found. MiniArt's set captures British tank crew in this cold-weather kit — the practical, improvised winter dress of men determined to stay warm in an open turret in a German winter — an essential complement to any late-war British armour build.

Keeping the cold out — British tank crew in winter uniform, in 1/35 scale.