135 scale military 37020 us light tank m24 chaffee this is an italeri model kit of the m24 chaffee packaged in a tamiya box with tamiya instructions plus a figure a host of accessories and even new and remolded parts the m24 chaffee was officially adopted in 1944 as a successor to the m35 stuart light tanks it was equipped with the compact 75mm gun originally developed for the b25 mitchell bomber and somewhat unusually for a u s afv torsion bar suspension it made it into service in