

We stock sets from all the major manufacturers and smaller ones as well, plus the decals, resin accessories and photo-etch parts from companies like Archer, AFV Club, Eduard. He then goes on to say this only scratches the surface, with many inconsistencies and variations. has thousands of military model detail sets, accessories and conversion sets in every scale to take your model kit to the next level. The system could be expanded to four numbers, in which case the first number indicated the Brigade. Therefore 100 was the battalion commander's tank, 110 was command tank of first platoon first company, 114 was command tank of 2nd platoon first company. Soviet tank battions had a single HQ tank plus two companies with ten tanks (1 company commander & 3 three tank platoons).

In other units a more complicated system was used, The first digit was the battation, the second identified the company, the third indicated the platoon & vehicle.A related system was used by the 18th tank corps The first digit represented the brigade: '4' for the 110th, '5' for the 170th, and '6' for the 181st. the first number indicated the brigade, the second and third numbers were issued to all 65 tanks of the brigade consecutively. was eventually supplanted by two- and three- digit numbers without hyphens or letter in 19. The meaning of the numbers varied from unit to unit. By coincidence I stumbled upon a (partial) answer to this question in an old Zaloga book of mine.
