Atropian Conflict Gateguard Revived (1/35th scale)

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This is an in-progress hatethread @ the ITALERI designers.

Despite being a thirty year old kit looks nice, da?
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/testors-pn03524-js-2--186476

Oh look - a build thread!
https://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/3/t/152681.aspx

As foretold by the Prophets in other threads, this was slated to be a mix-and-match.  JS2 hull meets T-62 turret? Too big.

JS2 hull meets T-55 turret? That'll work.

26 MAR 22 edit  - quasirelated @Ysi_Maniac noodlings

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Precedence exists, or at least inspiration.
A gate guard JS3 was briefly revived in 2014 by Donetsk Separatists and then recaptured by Ukrainian Government forces, only to be dragged off to an unnamed museum.

Remember these 12.7mm NVST remote turrets, aborted from my OBJECT-195 build?


Found a new home for one of them.

Now with the irritations

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The entire kit is stupid-simple and the lower hull should have taken all of 15 minutes to fabricate, but the three pieces are mutually unsupporting and cast from a glue-resistant plastic.

So I found an inner hull donor (display mount from some patrol boat), cut to fit and in the time-honored tradition of youth, slathered with glue.

This has become a Revenge Build.