Konigwolf,

Very interesting T34 to see being built. I still have fond memories of the Tamiya T34 model 42 i built a while ago. This is dragons model right?

Before i go ahead and finish my KV2 by trumpeter without having showed some inbetween pics i could stop myself for a minute just now to show a little update on this very nice kit. The model almost builds itself. I have sprayed the green colour, proceeded with white and rust colored drybrushes and applied a black and rust colored wash afterwards. First pic is a bit blurry, sorry.

Next up are the decals for the turret and toning the heavy rust wash down with some pigment powders and chalks, attaching the tow cables and fitting the tracks.

Richard

 

When building the upper hull I came across a lapse from the instructions.

While there is an option to to use either a plastic engine grill dragon also supplies a lovely PE grill. The lapse is here, in the pack with PE parts is also a piece of printed cardboard not mentioned at all in the manual. My best guess is that its goes under the grill as a picture of engine parts as oppossed  to leaving a window to an empty hull

Got started on the T-34 today, did a base coat across most most of the sprues, then started on the hull etc

 

should get alot more done tonight

 

Andrew

Sherman1111 Your TUNGUSKA is lookin good although I dont know much about tanks.

Osher Nice start thats a sweet lookin airframe cant wait to see it finished.

Kermit I see you have ventured to the dark side and are building a tank Can't wait to see how it comes out.

Privet!

Heres the latest on my trumpeter KV2... All assembly, apart from installing the towing cables (real brass wire is supplied), is done and everything is ready for the first coat of paint. Building went smooth and mostly without problem apart from the track tighteners. I would have preferred a somewhat more sturdy design here...

Also the only thing i, personally, didn't agree with is the gun barrel... In retrospect i would have wanted a metal or aftermarket one... But all things considered (great kit for a great price) im am very satisfied sofar. Building time at this point has been somewhere around 8 hours.

Turret (good heavens what a juggernaut...):

And for the picture i installed it on the hull wich has received its sideskirts and stowage boxes and some other bits and bobs...:

Untill next time!

Richard

road wheels done tracks next 2S6M Tunguska

Nice going Kermit!

Thanks for the approval scott!

After some thinkwork after my last post i decided on the Trumpeter KV-2. It has been a while since i have last built a tank and this particular model is said to be a rather good KV-2 representation. So... the tank it is

And got some WIP pics too to get things underway:

Firstly the boxart and what i had built yet from the start...

worked on the suspension and roadwheel assembly...

and completed most of the hull assembly as well...

Only have to finish on the sideskirts/ wheel covering thingies and then its on to that huge turret

Thanks for letting me participate and see you gents soon.

Richard

kermit wrote:

Hi everyone,... Ummm i share some people's fondness of anything soviet, modelingwise and would like to ask if there's room for another participant to the group? The model i want to build isn't decided yet... Ive got revells SU25, same as thunderbolt is doing wich i picked up during my holiday in the US. Then i have Revell of Germany's 1:72 MIG21 and lastly i have made a very small start already on a KV2 from trumpeter a while back... Either one of these would apply for the group and i like all of them... Richard

Hey

      Richard

 

                   Your in! Just let me know later what you want to build. Believe me your not the only "to be determined" on the main post. 

And a SHOUT OUT to Sherman and osher those builds are coming along nicely guys.

I'll post some WIP pic's of my T-62 in the near future.

Hope everyone had a great Holloween!

Scott

Hi everyone,...

Ummm i share some people's fondness of anything soviet, modelingwise and would like to ask if there's room for another participant to the group?

The model i want to build isn't decided yet... Ive got revells SU25, same as thunderbolt is doing wich i picked up during my holiday in the US. Then i have Revell of Germany's 1:72 MIG21 and lastly i have made a very small start already on a KV2 from trumpeter a while back... Either one of these would apply for the group and i like all of them...

Richard

OK, here are the initial pictures, from the sprue, sorry for not posting them first!

and here with some interior blue added and the exhausts metalized.

I used Revell 65 enamel for the interior (in some versions it really is that blue!), with Humbrol metalcote, polished with kitchen tissue paper. 

Nice job Sherman!  That's one interesting kit, be nice to see it finished!

Oh, guess what, just after I write that, I get my uploads working!

OK, here's the view just after I sealed up the cockpit - sanded in, and smooth, but some panel lines need re-scribing

 

Here's the cockpit seat.  I know it's not brilliant, but, the headrest is probably 1/20" wide - pictures make it seem worse!

 

Here's the model, with the main planes attached

The underside with the intakes and FOD

Thanks for looking folks! 

Hi chaps, sorry for delay in posting, but, here goes! The Academy MiG-29 is coming along nicely with the cockpit finished and the fuselage halves joined. The main planes have been added, and everything sanded and smoothed in. It looks pretty fab! Being 1/144 scale, there's no instrument panel, but there are side panels, and I painted in the seat belts using a cocktail stick sharpened to a fine point. Not as easy as it sounds, but, it looks reasonable, and not too wide. Sorry no pictures, but having some technical difficulties! I did take them, but, having a hassle uploading to photobucket.

I have though been reading everyone's progress on the emails! Well done y'all! As an aside, I bought today the Italeri double kit of the ISU 152. It comes with one normal kit, and one quick-build kit. I suspect that both would end up looking pretty much the same, so, it's down to colour schemes. A Hungarian uprising version for one, and a German defeat version for the other (with multi coloured front)? Let's see... Pity I don't the decals for a Russian P-40 as I have some beautiful P-40's from Hasegawa, 2 of which are part built, and one is waiting to be unboxed. Lovely kits.

When I can, I'll upload the pictures.

Speaking as we did of tanks, I used to be a Centurion driver, back in the day, way way back when!

SPASIBA!!

OK your right I should of put the name of my model somewhere in th note. it is a rare model' good idea

A small request. For those of us who are new to the subject, it's always a good thing to do a GB post starting with "here's the latest on the "Bearski PT-26X" just so we all can follow along. I'm cutting sprue tonight on the BTR 152 Command Vehicle.

finely getting started on my 2s6m TUNGUSKA  picked a desert theam so more to come, just painted the road wheels an upper and lower body

more later

bondoman wrote:

Some versionof a BTR in 1/72, please. Crossover with the Bear trap and 8x8s.

Trumpeter

M1 A1 A2 Tanker  looks good to me I would say run with it

 

Just a quick update guys.

     First I switched my kit to the Tamiya 1/35 T-62A w/ Barrel Depot Main Gun due to putting the roadwheels together backwards on my ISU-152, duh!

 

     Second, below you'll see my ranking system idea. The picture shown would be for someone who has completed 3 kits. So 1 star for a kit, 2 stars for 2 kit, ect... kind of like grade school. LOL. I know the stars are not totally lined up right in the pic but I can fix it later.

So what do you think?

 

 

 

See ya

Scott

For me it was easy.  Just go to work and fly to Moscow.  Getting from the airplane to the hotel was a PITA though.  Security, small busses, and traffic.  Once in Moscow it's not bad.  I walked to the Kremlin,  looked around, ate at McDonalds in Red Square and thought, We won!

Gum is now a very high end retail mall.  There is a LOT OF MONEY floating around that city.  If I go back I will have to visit the tank museums.  They were closed the day I was there.

Satch

Smile -- I remember those, the four letters of the Cyrillic alphabet which sound practically the same to the untutored ear! And what about the eighteen cases for pluralisation, male, female and gender neutral? ARGH! I would have changed to Military History as well!

How difficult is it to visit Moscow these days? Last time I looked it was no big deal, but that was a long time ago and situations tend to be fluid. It's just an interest I have in visiting the big military museums...

Cheers, Mike

I had delusions of a double major in Econ and Russian Area Studies.  This was the mid 80s so Russian was en vogue, know your enemy stuff.  I soon found out that was way beyond my abilities and commitment level, so I switched after one year of each to Mil History.  Still remember the alphabet though.  I went to Moscow a few months ago and got a refresher on the ch, sh, tsha, and zha sounds.

Satch

Hi satch & all -- yep, that's it! I'm always amazed by the direct similarities, then mystified by the yawning gulfs, between Russian and English. One always picks up a few bits and pieces along the way through an interest in military subjects, KGB, AV-MF, VVS and their literal translations. I thought it was actually rather a cool language to take a shot at however I found it harder than Klingon... Though Kilngon wouldn't do me any good at an archaeological camp somewhere in Ukraine!

Cheers, Mike

за родния

Is that what your decal looks like?  That is roughly For the Motherland.

For Stalin was correct also.  I took Russian in college and can still read cyrillic for the most part.!

Имейте забаву!  (have fun)

Your Russian is probably still better than mine, Mike... not to mention trying to learn the Cyrillic alphabet. I know a little Serbo Croation, and that is not too far removed from Russian as far as I can tell (Pectopah-Restoran is my Rosetta stone in my minds eye....) Many words and phrases sound similar. But as to learning the meaning of Rodina, I must confess, I picked up frm reading Tom Clancy novels.

Hi Stik -- Good heavens, that's what it means? Thanks! I never got far enough into Russian to follow more than a smattering, though the third selection from the same unit, "For the Bolshevik Party" is obvious enough.

I learned almost all the Russian I know from painstaking comparison of the English and Russian instructions in Zvezda kits! I got a teach-yourself-Russian CD but it was not transliterated into English characters and diving in with the Cyrillic from the beginning was too big a leap without a teacher.

Cheers,

Mike

Mike, "Za Rodnny" means "for the motherland"