Perry’s Paper Vickers Medium Mk II* Tank 1/72© Alberto Perilli - 2010 - 005A British Army - Pg 1/2

The Vickers Medium Mark II, �rst delivered in 1925 to the British army, featured several improvements over the original Mark I: a raised driver's cockpit, an improved suspensionprotected by armour skirts and Rackham clutches, providing a primitive form of mechanical servo-control. Due to a slightly higher weight its rated speed was somewhat slower than that of the Medium Mark I, at 13 mph compared to 15 mph. Armament consisted of a QF 3-pounder (47 mm) main gun and four 0.303 (7.7 mm) Hotchkiss M1914 machine guns.One hundred of the base model were builded before new improvements. Mark II* (Fifty-six builded): the Hotchkiss machine guns were removed and replaced with three 0.303 (7.7mm) Vickers (one coaxial), and the commander's cupola was shifted back.Mark II**: Designed in 1932 with the addition of a wireless set in an armoured container at the back of the turret. The weight rose to 13.5 short tons.

Model: Mark II* - British Army. Ordered on the 5th of January 1926. After its o�cial period of service it was employed as a training tank at Bovington in the early years of the Second World War. Actually it is conserved and exposed at the Bovington Tank Museum in Dorset, UK.

Perry’s Paper Vickers Medium Mk II* Tank 1/72© Alberto Perilli - 2010 - 005A British Army - Pg 2/2