No finished pics? Did this get completed?

This looks so bad @$$ in bare metal I would have been tempted to polish it and clearcoat and call it done.

Beautiful work

Oh that looks great! All that work on the track links looks like a pain but yeah it does break the M4 look on them. 

Hope you do another video of this vehicle, hope your dog is in it too! 

Now that I finished with my Su-12 I returned to my T-80.

Spent a bit of time sorting out the hull. Not happy with the bulge on the front - had to use Milliput - but it will just have to do. The real thing was fairly crude in reality.

Then I installed my suspension. Its fairly soft and “dainty” but the tank is-currently-light.

Then I painted it my standard issue gun metal to cover the rust.

And I made some wheels and idlers (same thing!)…

Then I had to deal with the tracks.
The T-80 uses some weird double toothed track with a single row of teeth on the sprocket engaging in the middle.

The only two toothed track I know of is the Sherman. So I got some metal ones. Then I filed, ground, Dremeled and sanded off the chevron things. Then I made a little jig and drilled a hole in the dead centre of each link. Tedious work. The aim is not so much to produce a T-80 track, but to produce any track that works and that doesnt stink of Sherman.

Then the sprockets wouldnt fit correctly. So I ground off the back of the sprocket until I had just a disk of teeth left.

Then I adjusted the teeth spacing with a file. Then I mounted that disk between two steel “rims”, checked that the “sprocket” was running true, then bolted the two “rims” together ending up with a rudimentary sprocket with a central row of teeth.

They need some finessing and a means of getting them on the drive shaft but that shoul dbe OK.

They engage nicely with the tracks at any rate.

Dont think I will be driving it on the wooden floors at home.....the wife will kill me.

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Yeah that's so cool!!! 

The T-60 was an interesting little tank, the T-70 and T-80 weird and wonderful offshoots. 

I had a T-80 in World of Tanks, which was a very strange concept of the tank, they made it into some sort of whacky light sniper tank.

Looks fantastic.  Ever think of kitting something like this?