Pobeda (Victory)

Warning!

Pobeda (Victory) is a company from Russia. In early time they re-boxed plastic kits from other manufactueres under his own label. The early boxes has the same box lay-out pictures as on boxes from plastic manufacturers. On this boxes is info that a plastic kit is included. The kits they released more recently are casted in resin or are (possible) resin copies from plastic kits. The resin vehicles are mosttimes casted in one piece. It seems that the quality of the kits are very different, the original plastic kits from wellknown labels are good, but the resin castings are very different and possible mostly poor!!

Some of the pictures are with permission taken from "Plastic Soldier Review"

The sets contains a plastic kit made by ICM and Esci Russian Paratroopers Spetsnaz figures.

Kit pob72-001 - BTR 152V-K and Soviet Army Figures
Kit pob72-002 - BTR 152 S Command and Soviet Army Figures
Kit pob72-003 - ZIL-157 Truck and Soviet Army Figures
Kit pob72-004 - BM-24-12 Rocket and Soviet Army Figures

Kit pob72-005 - ZIL-157 Fuel Truck and Soviet Army Figures
Kit pob72-006 - BM 13-16 Katyuska and Soviet Army Figures
Kit pob72-008 - BM-13-16 ZIL-131 and Soviet Army Figures
Kit pob72-009 - Ural 375D Truck and Soviet Army Figures

Kit pob72-010 - Ural 375 A Command Egyptian-Soviet A

included with copy of Esci Russian Paratroopers Spetsnaz

Kit pob72-020 - Russo-Balt Armoured Car
This set contains a plastic kit made by LW, a gun, paper flags and a vacuform base

Kit pob72-030 - BMP-1 and Soviet Army Figures
This set contains a plastic kit made by SDW and Esci Russian Paratroopers Spetsnaz figures

Kit pob72-040 - SU-76 Soviet Tank WW2
This set contains a plastic kit made by UM and 3 crew figures

Kit pob72-041 - Volkswagen Lazaret
This set contains a plastic kit made by Military Wheels or A-Model, resin casualty figures and paper posters

Kit pob72-042 - German Pak40 and Panther Tanks
This set contains three panther tank plastic kits and the gun and figures from Fujimi Field Accessories

Kit pob72-043 - RBT-5 Rocket Launcher
Kit pob72-044 - ZSU-37 Antiaircraft Tank
Kit pob72-045 - Soviet ZIS-3 Gun with Crew
Kit pob72-046 - T-26 Twin Turret with Crew
Kit pob72-047 - SPG BT-42 Finnish 1944 Vyborg Battle
Kit pob72-048 - XT-26 Russian Flamethrower
This sets contains a plastic kit made by UM, figures from LW and paper posters

Kit pob72-101 - Die in Stalingrad
This set contains resin figures (mostly MIR), vacuform base and paper posters

Kit pob72-102 - Crimean Death Artillery
This set contains resin figures and paper posters

Kit pob72-103 - Sudan Death Dervishes
This set contains resin figures and paper posters

Kit pob72-107 - Russian Pilots
This set contains LW Russian Pilots plus one large and one small plastic hanger

Kit pob72-110 - Warsaw Resistance

Kit pob72-111 - WWI uS Ford T Ambulance

Kit pob72-112 - US Scout Car WWI

Kit pob72-300 - Finish Army

Kit pob72-301 - Finish Artillery

Kit pob72-304 - OT-133 Flame Thrower

Kit pob72-305 - T-26 M1933

Kit pob72-306 - T-26T Ammunition Carrier

Kit pob72-310 - Winter War Russian Army

Kit pob72-311 - Winter War Russian Artillery

Kit pob72-314 - BT-7

Kit pob72-315 - BA-10

Kit pob72-316 - T-26 TN

Kit pob72-317 - T-26-1

Kit pob72-318 - KV-1

Kit pob72-330 - KV-2

Short review by David O'Barr:

I've been curious about these kits for a while. I tried to get info on Henk's sight and on OTW. However, information is limited and it is dificult if not impossible to find reviews. So I took matters into my own hands and purchased one of the kits on E-Bay. I got lucky and I was able to snipe one for $7.95 with free shipping. Not bad. But I did not want to pay too much for a kit that might be terrible. Tghe kit arived yesterday and I have compared the kit and the figures in the box to kits in my stash and I am ready to give a full review.
The box is small and has a nice picture (Although it is in German Colors and has the German modifications of a 754(r)). As you can see the kit is labled "Leningrad Battle 1941 WW2" and it says it contains "2 pieces kit tank" and "11 figs and MG team/flag/posters"
The box contains the two resin parts for the tank and two sprues of soldiers. Assembly of the kit takes two seconds!
Actually I'm not sure how to attatch the turret. Obviously if you glue it it will not turn. The detail on the kit is actually pretty good. It has some stowage and what look like sandbags on the sides. It also has a couple of cables which appear to just sit loose on the tank. The wheels and tracks have fair detail for a resin kit and the casting is bubble free with no chips or holes. The bottom of the tank is undercut on the front and back but a large solid block covers most of the bottom. This is fine until you look at the bottom of the kit. It looks not so great. You could cut and grind all that resin out if you wanted it to look more realistic but it would take a lot of effort and the resin is very hard.
I compared the casting with the PST KV-2 kit and it was a fairly close match. PST on the right. Like I said close but some differences. The Pobeda kit appeared to be perfect 1/72. I then compared it to the Trumpeter 7235 Russian KV-2 M1940 Tank kit and . . . It is the exact same kit
Of course the resin kit has all the parts and stowage on it but this kit is just a resin casting of the Trumpeter kit! An exact copy! Same with the turret. So it is an exact copy of the Trumpeter turret.
More about the troops. I think it is almost comical to include these troops with hthis vehicle. The troops have post war weapons! AK -47, RPG's? The seige of Leningrad would not have lasted three years if the Soviet infantry would have been so well armed! Maybe they are a special time traveling unit!

Kit pob72-331 - Russian Women Snipers