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« on: May 17, 2022, 02:56:52 AM »
1) Any kit, $20@ plus USPS Large Postage CONUS.
Gone; BMP2E, URAL truck.

If you're not emotionally attached to the factory boxes, I can *usually* get two kits into one USPS Medium Box (@$17 shipping).

2) Upon last inventory (this morning), all contents appear to be complete /still sealed / unmessed with.

3) Bundle deals possible.

4) Need more pics, contact by PM and specify your desires.

5) Yes, I know the T62/A [update - scroll down] and T55s weren't in this latest conflict. Consider them outliers or potential donor hulls.

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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2022, 03:00:54 AM »
5) Yes, I know the T62/A and T55s weren't in this latest conflict. Consider them outliers or potential donor hulls.


Even if not in fighting it can be themed:

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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2022, 06:08:29 AM »
Indeed. Your only prison is your own imagination.


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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2022, 07:06:22 AM »
Pink Tank: Okay
Man bun: Not okay
Work in progress ::

I am giving up listing them. They all end up on the shelf of procrastination anyways.

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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2022, 08:11:19 AM »
Maybe he's a Samurai?


Iranian T-55 with ZPU-4
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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2022, 11:24:53 AM »
Nope, he's carrying a manbag, too. ::)
"This is the Captain. We have a little problem with our engine sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and, ah, explode."

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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2022, 12:53:49 PM »
Do they know any sumo wrestler would kick their a$$ for wearing a man bun? Very insulting to them.

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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2022, 09:27:49 PM »
Ural-4320 and the BMP-2E enroute.



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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2022, 01:46:40 AM »
You could do the T-62 as a Ukraine Whiff - they did have some in the past so, why not have one returned to service?
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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2022, 12:23:35 AM »
You could do the T-62 as a Ukraine Whiff - they did have some in the past so, why not have one returned to service?

There's a Cheasapeake Model Designs early T62 turret included, so 1) if it doesn't appeal to anyone here and 2) I work through my stack of "in progress" trays  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D  then I'd consider something with an "other-than-green" coat.

Maybe Cubans in Angola? Somewhere around here are my pics of the SADF stuff I've built.


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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2022, 09:09:05 PM »
You could do the T-62 as a Ukraine Whiff - they did have some in the past so, why not have one returned to service?

No longer wiff.

"The echelon of obsolete T-62 tanks, which the Russians had, after all, taken out of storage, arrived in Melitopol today (May 25 - ed.)."
"30 units of Russian military equipment entered the village of Kyrylivka. Armoured personnel carriers are stationed at virtually almost every intersection, according to local residents."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/aggressors-moved-echelon-t-62-222630148.html

Confirmed. Some have bra armor, some turret-front ERA. https://twitter.com/i/status/1529404520828133380

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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2022, 11:42:33 PM »
Sometimes quantity has a quality in its own right. :icon_crap:
"This is the Captain. We have a little problem with our engine sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and, ah, explode."

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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #12 on: May 27, 2022, 12:10:47 AM »
Sometimes quantity has a quality in its own right. :icon_crap:

Updated for the 21st Century (you heard it here first).

Cannon fodder UAV Fodder is an informal, derogatory term for combatants who are regarded or treated by government or military command as expendable in the face of enemy fire.


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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #13 on: May 27, 2022, 12:31:08 AM »
Sometimes quantity has a quality in its own right. :icon_crap:

Updated for the 21st Century (you heard it here first).

Cannon fodder UAV Fodder is an informal, derogatory term for combatants who are regarded or treated by government or military command as expendable in the face of enemy fire.
Add "Tripwire Force" to that list.   
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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #14 on: May 27, 2022, 01:37:51 AM »
No longer wiff.


It is still a Whiff if you do a Ukrainian one.
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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #15 on: May 27, 2022, 01:53:03 AM »
Cannon fodder UAV Fodder is an informal, derogatory term for combatants who are regarded or treated by government or military command as expendable in the face of enemy fire.

"Russian Popcorn" is what you get when you stick a Gopnik (or at least a non-Russia Russian) in a T-anything and hand them over to Saint Javelin

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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #16 on: May 27, 2022, 05:35:16 AM »
No longer wiff.
It is still a Whiff if you do a Ukrainian one.
Being towed away by a Ukrainian farmer on his tractor...
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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #17 on: May 28, 2022, 05:16:34 AM »
No longer wiff.


It is still a Whiff if you do a Ukrainian one.

That's more precognitive than Whiffy.

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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #18 on: June 06, 2022, 04:53:17 AM »

Russian T-62M tanks with roof screens are seen in Kherson Oblast. They have been geolocated on a few pages already ,the T-62M's in Beryslav. Tanks are going towards east.
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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #19 on: June 07, 2022, 01:31:52 AM »
Bigger version of above photo"



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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #20 on: June 07, 2022, 10:49:37 AM »
Is the bar armor on the rear of the turret attached to the turret or the hull?  What is the purpose of the screen?

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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #21 on: June 07, 2022, 11:04:35 AM »
That's the engine radiator cover - the engine is probably overheating so it's common to see them driving with the covers open to get better cooling.

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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #22 on: June 07, 2022, 11:09:23 AM »
That's the engine cover - the engine is probably overheating so it's common to see them driving with the covers open.
I agree with Frank's call on that as well.  Raised engine and drive train deck cover.  The "tell" is the pair of open rectangular holes towards the top of the thing that correspond with the cooling vents at the rear of the hull.  Also the open engine and drive train is rather evident even with the image enlarged but the details are a bit grainy so most would dismiss this for what it is at first glance.   
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Re: 1/35th Ukraine War Fodder
« Reply #24 on: June 08, 2022, 12:00:12 AM »
That's the engine radiator cover - the engine is probably overheating so it's common to see them driving with the covers open to get better cooling.
 

A (probably) unintended benefit is that the open engine deck plating also becomes a de-facto RPG screen for the turret's rear arc (4 o'clock to 8 o'clock) with the drawback that the turret can't traverse through that arc.
 
Note that the sunshade over the pergola also works as a drone-delivered anti-hand-grenade screen (since we've seen several Russian tanks immolated by UA drones delivering frag or whatever grenades.

Note that the T62 is the last Soviet tank with a four-man crew and no autoloader (so it's got that going for it). 

With our tanks, you can fire the main gun from the TC's station (known as 'degraded mode' when you only have a three man crew).

 I don't remember digging deep enough into Soviet manuals to see if that was one of their capabilities as well, but it would seem to actually be desirable for T62 operators in 2022; shortages of trained personnel, ease of training a Gopnik to stick big pointy end of shell in first, range estimation for the 115mm not being a high requirement, high probability of having to bail out of a stricken tank, etc.