Thanks all. Figs are a definite possibility at this point in time, two ready to prime.....

Beautiful!  What is it about those older Tamiya models that, inspite of their flaws, look great when done?  That looks like a T-62 to me.

Bill

Oh yeah! That's very nice! Add figures! 

Love the camo, definitely. 

Oh cool! That came out really well, I love the camo!!! Hope you add the figures, I love how they look with an AFV. 

Greysnake: Thanks! Always good to know the real story there. 

Thanks G. I have a couple of CMK "Iraqi tankers" that look like they'll work, so the answer is a definite "maybe". I painted the inside of the turret hatch openings black, and detailed the inside of the hatch covers too, thinking along those lines when I started back up on the build, so it's ready for turret crew figs. I'm thinking one standing, one in the TC's hatch.

That turned out great!  Despite the kit’s accuracy issues, it absolutely looks like a T-62.  I love Soviet armor in middle east camo.  

Are you planning on adding some figures?

I'm calling it done.

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Lotsa fun, and with all that Verlinden resin and the Friuls, it's easily the heaviest model in my case.

That looks awesome. Excellent work on the camo.

BK

Oh how did I miss this! Very nice looking job, love the camo and the tracks look so good! 

Good luck with the Trumpeter T-62, I wonder if Tamiya lengthened their kit for the motor and batteries on the powered version? Just guessing- I have no idea. 

I started the Trump T-62 Mod 1972, big difference in hull lengths is the most notable dimensional thing. The Tamiya kit's hull is about two scale feet longer, with the added length being between the last road wheel station and the final drive, which also stretches the engine deck quite a bit. I'll get pics up shortly, but it's interesting. I'm especially curious about the turret shape and size differences.

Thanks all. Re the fuel barrels: They were often just left off due to damage and/or lack of need. I've got a few pics of T-62s without them, but I agree, they're kind of neat looking.

Tanker-Builder

Okay;

   When did they stop putting the Fuel barrels on the outside rear?

With the rebranded T-90 once the Soviet Union no longer needed long range attack forces. They still have the ability to mount barrels, but are no longer standard.

Dammit Russ!! That is looking awesome !!!!

Beautiful job!  It looks the part well!

Bill

Okay;

   When did they stop putting the Fuel barrels on the outside rear? That made RUSSIAN hardware so recognizeable! BUt, Yours is recognizeable for it's quality of fit and finish. Very nice Job!

Fantastic!

Don't you just love those spurts of creative momentum? I'm having short sporadic fits, myself lol.

That thing looks ready to roll right on out. She's mean looking, Russ!

I guess I got motivated.

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I'm thinking I may roll into the Trump T-62 after this, just for kicks, maybe do it in Egyptian colors.

Some paint!

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I started with the new-to-me Vallejo spray can Russian green, and it's pretty good stuff. It goes on nicely and dries dead flat. Of course I shot some clear over it so I could go on with the tan and gray, and it'll get some more clear before I do a pin wash, but it's moving along nicely.

Can't wait to see some paint on it! 

Rob, that's part of it for me too, and part of it is also the fact that some of these older kits are being sold off with a rather large collection of AM stuff in the box. I think I paid $40 for two kits, the Verlinden "update" which was a good pound and a half of resin, four turned aluminum gun tubes, a resin mantlet cover for the Tamiya kit and two Eduard PE sets, one old and one new. It was well over two and a half pounds shipped. How could I say no?

I had the Friuls on hand, and I scrounged the Trump drive sprockets somewhere. I hate to say it, but it's been primed and shot in Vallejo Russian green, from the newish rattle can range. Pics soon.

I like rediscovering older kits that I built as a child. It's a challenge to see what I can do with it today as opposed to my younger days when I tube glued it without paint.

Fossilized is the word for it. I should check to see if it's turned to stone.

Annoying thing is I have most of the kit. Just one of the inner warp drive nacelles parts vanished. I know it has to be around somewhere.

Hey hey hey, you guys are getting into MY model build vintages!  If we are not careful, it will be the basis for an “old-old-old GB”!

RBaer, glad to see the T-62 getting done!  Another Tamiya oldie armor kit gets love.  I like it.

Gamera, it’s never too late to finish a model.  Unless it’s for a GB!  Man, you have matched me in SOD builds.  I am humbled.

OOPS! 

 Isn't that in danger of being Fossilized? LOL.LOL. I have some that old and older.

33 years? It's ripe.

Oh cool, it's always fun to see something dug out and finished! Bravo sir!!!

Someday I'm going to finish that Romulan Warbird I bought back when Star Trek the Next Generation was still on the air. Guess I bought and started it back around 1987 or so??? Thirty-three years of sitting in a box ought to be enough...  

Hmmm, the Five Year Plan? f course all my in progress pics are swallowed up by the gaping maw of Photobucket, but I pulled this one off the shelf the other day, and wango tango dove into it. I decided I'd rather finish it than let it sit around one more day, ask me why and I'll say " Why not?".

So, a pic as it is now, coming along nicely. I also decided I had way too much brass on hand (in pocket?) and am going to forego absolute accuracy (too late anyway, it's the Tamiya kit) and just finish it in Syrian YKW colors, minimal external doo dads.

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When I pulled it down on Monday, the turret and front and rear plates were bare. Deciding not to use every single piece of brass made for quick progress.

Karl, I just cannot help myself, therapy didn't help either. And kits are a lot cheaper than therapy.

SMJ. thanks. I've had this thing "in-progress" forever, but now that I've cleaned up the man-cave, I hope to get primer on by next month, key word: "hope".

Crockett, that's probably what my model will end up being, a back-drop for a Magach, maybe just abandoned with no damage. Good pic. I thought about doing something more recent, but when I went with the OmSh tracks, that kind of mandated something from the '70's.