Jimi
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- Feb 3, 2012
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Ok, so there is a small story attached to this: yes i know, i usually build sci-fi kits and i have a stack of military kits around here so i decided to take one to work with me and sit and build it rather than keep buying books off of ebay, which was costing me even more than model kits.
so i'm roughly getting an hour a night to work on this kit in less than perfect conditions to say the least but it's a slow burner and in three week i have managed to complete most of the hull and i have also completed most of the turret. work has been slowed by the fact that i wanted to add some additional plumbing for the external fuel cells which was fabricated out of 30 amp fuse wire which you can just about see in this picture in the top left corner.
I wanted to do this tank as one that had been captured by the Mujaheddin during the war with the Russians in Afghanistan however the mono-chrome green colour is putting me off when i look at the option to paint it as a Syrian tank but i will stick with my original plan as i have bought some afghan rebel figures as well.
I originally didn't want to build the trumpeter kit as i had built one of their early kits a T-55 which i had built to resemble a North Vietnamese army tank from the Vietnam war. that kit was a nightmare with huge gaps that needed a ton of plastic-card and filler and it put me off of trumpeter kits altogether but over the last two to three years i kept hearing everyone singing their praises, whilst i was thinking this was utter madness, so in the end i cracked this kit open from the stash and i must admit it is a marked improvement from their earlier kits.
Sorry their is only one progress shot but photobucket was being a pain in the rump yesterday:
so i'm roughly getting an hour a night to work on this kit in less than perfect conditions to say the least but it's a slow burner and in three week i have managed to complete most of the hull and i have also completed most of the turret. work has been slowed by the fact that i wanted to add some additional plumbing for the external fuel cells which was fabricated out of 30 amp fuse wire which you can just about see in this picture in the top left corner.
I wanted to do this tank as one that had been captured by the Mujaheddin during the war with the Russians in Afghanistan however the mono-chrome green colour is putting me off when i look at the option to paint it as a Syrian tank but i will stick with my original plan as i have bought some afghan rebel figures as well.
I originally didn't want to build the trumpeter kit as i had built one of their early kits a T-55 which i had built to resemble a North Vietnamese army tank from the Vietnam war. that kit was a nightmare with huge gaps that needed a ton of plastic-card and filler and it put me off of trumpeter kits altogether but over the last two to three years i kept hearing everyone singing their praises, whilst i was thinking this was utter madness, so in the end i cracked this kit open from the stash and i must admit it is a marked improvement from their earlier kits.
Sorry their is only one progress shot but photobucket was being a pain in the rump yesterday:
