Sweet looking build D. Great job all around. 

The bedrolls are really easy to make with rolled bathroom tissue, soaked with water thinned Elmers tinted with Craft acrylics and a little imagination. 

Kien

Little late to comment.... 

I saw you say the plastic bedrolls did not conform well to the model. I would really recommend to try using kneadatite (aka green stuff). It's a 2 part epoxy and can be molded into great looking bags/tarps with creaseas. Use water to prevent it from sticking, and use a toothpick/xacto knife for creases. Mold it to shape of model where you're placing it, then brush paint the roll. Weather it up with pigments/drybrush and its good to go. 

Also great work on the tracks, they seem very nicely weathered. It's subtle but looks very realistic!

 

Kien

 

I have watched a couple of youtube vids on how to work with green stuff (I have some on my bench....unopened, but ready to use), and this is definitely a skill I want to learn.

Thanks again for the comments, and it seems we were thinking the same thing.  

D

Little late to comment.... 

I saw you say the plastic bedrolls did not conform well to the model. I would really recommend to try using kneadatite (aka green stuff). It's a 2 part epoxy and can be molded into great looking bags/tarps with creaseas. Use water to prevent it from sticking, and use a toothpick/xacto knife for creases. Mold it to shape of model where you're placing it, then brush paint the roll. Weather it up with pigments/drybrush and its good to go. 

Also great work on the tracks, they seem very nicely weathered. It's subtle but looks very realistic!

Kien

Thanks Mike, Chad and Gamera.  Pleased to have received my first GB badge with this build.  I received lots of help with this build from the GB guys and forum members.  Too many to list.  Some were direct suggestions, and some were from checking out WIP's, so you wouldn't even know you helped me out. 

Thanks again for the encouragement and excellent suggestions!

D

Nice work, she came out great! 

Looks great!  The barrel soot looks nice and subtle.

ManCityFan

This is a close up of the barrel.  Hey Mike Brindos, I used Tamiya Weatherline to darken the barrel so it doesn't look like a burnt match stick.  Much more subtle, and looks much better than my first attempt.  Thank you for that suggestion.

 

You're more than welcome, D. It does look good! Not too much and not too little.

As far as your oil concerns, subtle is best anyways and I think you nailed it!

This is one good looking T-34!

1943Mike

Dwayne, This is a fine build of armor. Great job!!

I'm not too convinced I'll conquer the armor weathering/finishing learning curve as well or as quickly as you obviously have. I've broken some parts and am waiting for Tamiya to get a fret in stock so I can order it. Several more weeks of patience ..... .

 

Dwayne, This is a fine build of armor. Great job!!

I'm not too convinced I'll conquer the armor weathering/finishing learning curve as well or as quickly as you obviously have. I've broken some parts and am waiting for Tamiya to get a fret in stock so I can order it. Several more weeks of patience ..... .

RX7850

Your T34 came out great. Like the paint and tracks. The rope added the perfect finishing  touch.

 

Your T34 came out great. Like the paint and tracks. The rope added the perfect finishing  touch.

ManCityFan

 

 

Hunter

D,

I forgot to ask you....but what did you use for the rope holding down the bed rolls? It looks great.

 

 

 

 

That is scale rope from a company called Syren.  GMorrison gave me a link to the site.  If you look further down to the techniques heading, I think, there is a thread called "making and painting scale rope", and the link is in the thread.  It really is a quality item.  Used by the ship guys for rigging.

 

 

Hunter

D,

I forgot to ask you....but what did you use for the rope holding down the bed rolls? It looks great.

 

Marcus McBean

Very nice work, nice clean paint job. Now you need to have about twenty guys hanging on for the ride.

 

templar1099

Well you've jumped way ahead of the curve with this one,beautifully rendered.

 

D,

I forgot to ask you....but what did you use for the rope holding down the bed rolls? It looks great.

Hunter

Great Job D!...you really did a nice job. The CA glue worked out well holding down the tracks to the road wheels. For your second armor build you did an awesome job sir. 

 

Very nice work, nice clean paint job. Now you need to have about twenty guys hanging on for the ride.

Well you've jumped way ahead of the curve with this one,beautifully rendered.

Great Job D!...you really did a nice job. The CA glue worked out well holding down the tracks to the road wheels. For your second armor build you did an awesome job sir. 

Here is a close up of the Syren rope I ordered.  Thank you GMorrison for the link.

This is a close up of the barrel.  Hey Mike Brindos, I used Tamiya Weatherline to darken the barrel so it doesn't look like a burnt match stick.  Much more subtle, and looks much better than my first attempt.  Thank you for that suggestion.

So I am calling my T-34/76 done.  The scale rope I was waiting for came in, and that was all I needed to finish it off.  Here are the pics:

Several firsts on this project.  First aftermarket anything with tracks and rope.  First workable tracks.  First real attempt using oil washes.  First attempt at painting fabric, the bedrolls.  First time making tow cables.

I am pleased with how the bedrolls came out, and used techniques learned on this very forum.  I am also pleased with the overall project.  Need some more work on dot filtering, as I keep pulling up too much of the oil, and it ends up way too subtle.

The next time, I will make fabric stowage using green stuff or tissue paper.  The plastic bedrolls don't conform to the model, and I think I can do better.

This is my second 1/35 scale armor model, and I really enjoyed this one.  I have a Tamiya 1/35 KV-1 in the stash, and that will likely be my next armor project.

Thanks for looking.

ManCityFan

 

 

Gamera

Looks good! The tracks look just right and I like the mud.

 

 

 

 

  I am pretty pleased with the tracks.  The mud helped correct a fit problem in the back (shhh, don't tell anyone).  

 

Thanks for the reply,

D

 

Lol! Yeah mud is a great 'cheat'. I've used it to cover up molding pin marks on the undersides of fenders I didn't want to spend days puttying and sanding. And a few bigger issues here and there I won't get into! 

Looking good so far D.

Sorry i didn't get to this earlier, but as was mentioned above, we used to use anything as a tie down for attaching kit to our vehicles. As long as you don't foul the turret, hatches or block periscopes, kit used to get tied anywhere. On one occasion, we used our empty MILAN missile boxes and secured them to the sides with wire and put all our sleeping bags in them.

But ye, quite often the kits have you just attach kit to the vehicle as if its held there by magic.

M. Brindos

Lookin good, D! Don't be afraid to dirty her up. :)

 

 

Thanks for the comment and support.

D

Marcus McBean

 

 

ManCityFan

 

 

Marcus McBean

Nice work on that T-34.  How do you like those Kaizen tracks for that tank?  I have a set but have not used them yet.  I used Kaizen on a Jagdpanther and a Sherman which both came out very nice.

 

 

 

 

I have to say they look good.  They clean up fast, so not much prep work.  The thing about this particular set is that the pin only goes in about 3/4 of the width of the track, and the other end has the pin in plastic, so you have to "mash" the two links to get the pin in.  This was pretty frustrating initially, as the tracks did not "mash" well.  I found the best way to get them together when "mashing" was to get the links perpendicular to each other, start the pin, then wiggle one of the links.  First set took me hours, but the second set probably only took an hour and a half.  Have a small set of pliers handy in case the pin doesn't want to play well, and be aware the pin will stick into your thumb quite easily.

You can see how they fit in the picture above.  They are "workable", but not quite as flexible as I thought they would be.  Overall, I think they were a good purchase.  I am going to try the Friuls for my next tank to compare, and decide if the extra $$ are worth it. 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh ya, those pins do hurt, I have a few scares on my thumb to show for it.

Those Kaizen tracks do look good on your tank.  Thanks for letting me know about how the install went.  Now I know what to be awhere of when I take on this project.

 

Thanks for the reply,

D

Kien

Sorry for not including a picture ManCityFan, 

But here is the one I was looking at. This is only on the back of the turret, but same should apply on the sides. 

I am posting one using flickr and one with postimage just in case - I am still learning to properly do the photos. Please tell me if one of them doesn't show up, so I know if the post image works or the flickr. Thanks. 

" alt="bedroll " />

T34-85_Heckansicht by Kien Deshpande, on Flickr" alt="t34 bedroll" />

 

Kien

 

Sorry for not including a picture ManCityFan, 

But here is the one I was looking at. This is only on the back of the turret, but same should apply on the sides. 

I am posting one using flickr and one with postimage just in case - I am still learning to properly do the photos. Please tell me if one of them doesn't show up, so I know if the post image works or the flickr. Thanks. 

" alt="bedroll " />

T34-85_Heckansicht by Kien Deshpande, on Flickr" alt="t34 bedroll" />

Kien