There are a lot of very fine parts (pipes, control rods, etc) which are attached to the sprues by multiple thick attachment points. (I’m not an expert of styrene, so I cannot really form an educated opinion it’s just an impression.) Some flash is present, so cleanup will be necessary. The detail is very fine, and very delicate, but the plastic does not feel as good as some other manufacturer’s. Miniart has utilized the side moulding technology to its limits (more on that later). The kit consists of 759 plastic parts, and 8 PE parts. Since they have been in use for a considerable amount of time after the war, they offer almost endless opportunities for modifications and settings.
#Old d7 dozer archive
These bulldozers can often be seen in archive photos, and offer a great opportunity for diorama builders. This is a welcome trend indeed, as many of these vehicles are only available in limited run resin kits (if they are available at all).
Miniart has issued recently the Caterpillar D7 with an armored cab M2, and a hydraulically operated R71 dozer blade in plastic, along with other versions of the trusty D7 tractor. The book The D7 Tractor: A Visual History of the D7 Tractor in US Army Service 1941 – 1953 would be a very useful reference for builders. Not all of the bulldozers were armored (since most of them were civilian models, or modified civilian designs), although they were operating in the front lines quite often. They have been used to construct artillery positions, to build (and to destroy) tank traps, to clear beaches, to clean up rubble and build airstrips anywhere they were required (in the Russian taiga, on a corral atoll or in the jungle). (A number of them were shipped to the Soviet Union as part of the Lend-Lease program.) They were used to repair roads, and to build new ones, to keep the supply lines open. These vehicles were not equipped with dozer blades.Ĭaterpillar bulldozers were on every theatre of war they have been instrumental in the Allied war effort. The tractors were meant to pull artillery pieces and other cargo, and only at the later stages of the war had the purpose-built high-speed tractors started to replace them. The US Army has used several types of the Caterpillar D7 tractors and bulldozers in the Second World War. As soon as the US entered the war in 1941, the War Department started to purchase all equipment deemed essential for the war effort- Caterpillar’s “track-type crawlers” included. The new company was focusing on primarily of the production of road construction machinery. This is a multi-part review of the MiniArt Dozer due to the sheer amount of text and photos I have decided to go with this format.Ĭaterpillar Tractor Co was founded with the merger of Holt Caterpillar (the makers of the original Holt tractor, the first tracked vehicle ever made), and its competitor, the C.L.Best Gas Tractor company, in 1925.
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