Well its a Russian Voroshilovets Tractor , Picked this one up a few weeks ago just because it looked supoer cool. and I was browsing through the GB section and seen a "Made in the USSR" Gb and fell in love with the idea of entering.
Well last Sunday evening I sat down and started on the kit, the 150 track links cleaned up very easily and have a snap together feel to them, the kind remind me of the older model kasten sets in colour and presentation and of course workability. Three hours roughly had the tracks ready.
the tractor has a lower hull spotless clean and beautifully produced, in this shot I have added front details and exhausts and final drive housings.
The drive sproxkets had a fair amount of floash but that is no major inconvenience.
Some of the major components,
THe Tarp.
The bonnet, a beautiful piece.
The Cab again excellently done.
THe return rollers just snapped in place for the moment there is six of these sets and more on the suspension assemblies which gives you a total of 20 return rollers.
The underside of the flat bed, this is the only place I have encountered ejector pin marks and filled them. There is more on the back of the suspension assemblies but they are almost invisible.
The flat bed assembled, the interior parts are not glued in yet.
Just a quick shot of what we are looking at so far,
Now for the intensive/boring bit, 64 road wheels.
These glue together in pairs and are mounted in sets of four.
This is the suspension assembly, two springs which literally clip in place and two return rollers, there is pin marks on the back of these but they will be hidden by the hull.
The progress so far, not glued up for the moment because I need to spray in sub assemblies.
All together so far this accounts for just under 10 hours work.
This is an expensive kit €38.
Maybe not as expensive as a new Tamiya or Dragon release. The quality is certainly up there. Its a great subject, and on another note I have never recommended a kit that would be great for a first armour build but this is. I love it.
Thanks for looking in.
Terry.