Firm NVN MODELS 3D

 

The subject of this review will be the products of the company NVN MODELS 3D from the steppe city of Buguruslan with a population of no more than 50,000 people. I myself did not know where this city was before.

Just the other day, the company released a series of sets for sale:

NVN-35001 British steam armored tractor B5 1900

NVN-31002 Armoured Trailer for British Armoured Tractor 1900

NVN-31003 Howitzer for armored tractor B5 1900

There is also a complete set: British steam armored train on wheels from 1900 based on the B5 tractor

Purchase the entire set for $100. You can buy not the entire set, but separately: tractor – $60, trailer – $40, howitzer – $10. The entire set is cheaper.

From a marketing point of view, this is not the best presentation of the product.

The manufacturer provides a brief historical background:

“The steam tractor for the armored road train was ordered from the leading manufacturer of steam engines in England, John Fowler and Co. Ltd. The Super Lion model was taken as the base tractor. Each Super-Lion weighed 17.8 tons, the dimensions of the rear wheels were 7 feet (2.13 m) high and 24 inches (610 mm) wide. The armored hull weighed 4,500 kg and was assembled with rivets from armor 5/16 ″ (7.94 mm) thick for vertical surfaces and 6.3 ”(6.35 mm) for horizontal ones. The armor was supplied by Cammell Laird and Co. The armor provided protection from bullets fired from British Lee-Metford rifles and German Mausers when fired from a distance of 18 meters. After armoring, the weight of the tractor increased to 22 300 kg. The power of the steam engine allowed it to move an 80-ton road train at a speed of 10 km/h and consume 356 kg of coal for every 42 km of the distance traveled.”

Where is England in 1900 and where is Buguruslan in 2025?!

The same company is developing a prefabricated model of an Armored car based on the design of Mikhail Nakashidze in 1904

The model has already reached the test assembly stage.

Here at least the interest is understandable: “The armored car “Charron-Nakashidze” is the first armored car tested by the Russian Imperial Army. It was not accepted into service due to its low technical characteristics.” It was built in France at the “Charron, Giarardot, Voigt” plant, where Georgian Prince Mikhail Nakashidze either bought one of them, or simply acted as a distributor. It seems that he himself is behind the wheel.

His involvement in the development and production of this armored car is unclear and incomprehensible. It was ordered during the Russian-Japanese War, but it did not have time for it. The prince himself died at a reception during an assassination attempt on the Prime Minister of the Russian Empire Pyotr Stolypin in 1906.

In total, the Charron company manufactured 12 similar armored cars. According to French sources, six armored cars were sent to Russia in late 1906 or early 1907, but they were not allowed to cross the Russian border. Two cars ended up in Germany: either they were requisitioned or purchased at a large discount (almost 40%). Both of these armored cars were used by the Germans in battles in East Prussia in August 1914. Another armored car was bought from the Charron company by the French military department. In the same year of 1914, he fought in the cavalry corps of General Sorde. It is believed that the French used the armored car as an “airship hunter”, that is, it also became the grandfather of modern mobile anti-aircraft systems.

Information borrowed from a large and detailed article in Russian “The First Russian Armored Car of Podesaul Nakashidze