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 (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 (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.
(https://i.imgur.com/d868Nds.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/ezSPa3g.jpg)
JS2 hull meets T-55 turret? That'll work.
(https://i.imgur.com/sdTu6yM.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/UePQ2dk.jpg)
26 MAR 22 edit - quasirelated @Ysi_Maniac noodlings
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/j340/ysi_maniac/T-62_upgun.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
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.
(https://i.imgur.com/Mm2MXd3.jpg?1)(https://i.imgur.com/xhI9nj3.jpg?1)
Remember these 12.7mm NVST remote turrets, aborted from my OBJECT-195 build?
(https://i.imgur.com/Jn8w9XJ.jpg)
Found a new home for one of them. (https://i.imgur.com/zPUQeMN.jpg)
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.
(https://i.imgur.com/bPKoIcI.jpg)
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.
(https://i.imgur.com/0jKTCDA.jpg)
This has become a Revenge Build.