Beyond The Sprues
Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Land => Topic started by: raafif on October 03, 2024, 06:17:00 AM
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Another model I started a while ago - T-34/100 - Egypt mounted a Russian BS-3 artillery piece in a modified T-34/85 turret, around 15 were built as mobile long-range arty. To make the gun fit they reversed the turret mounting the gun in the cut-open rear & building an extension for the ammo in what was the front section.
Model is a Tamiya hull with Marquette wheels & tracks and AEF Designs resin turret with scratch-built gun.
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Neato. Did you take any in-process pics of the gun build?
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Looking good
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Sorry, no gun build pics as I got stuck in after much prevarication & if I had stopped I wouldn't start again.
The turret halves didn’t match perfectly so had to add a 1mm thick panel to the lower edge of one side of the ammo-storage area & putty it in.
Paint is Humbrol 121 Light Stone applied in many coats by airbrush.
Now back to those horrible single-link tracks - unfortunately the paint made the Tamiya rubber track hard so the slightly larger Marquette wheels prevented those from fitting.
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A bit about the gun build - many parts were used - everything from the spares-box :smiley:
Barrel is made up of section of tapered barrel from an old Nitto kit, joined to a section of a pen & joined to a breech-block from an old Tamiya Tiger-1? with a metal ferrule from somewhere. Muzzel-brake from an old Italeri Elephant? with new front piece. Under it is a length of plastruct girder with bits of Tamiya 2cm gun parts & half a barrel (railway accessory) on its front. Various bits added to the breech-block so it looks like the photos.
Its now 97% finished, only have to do the tracks & then the cam scheme.
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Finally finished it, may have to root around for two figures to man it.
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Wow - nice build and colors
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Wow - nice build and colors
2nd what Frank3K said. :smiley:
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Your finished model looks quite impressive and the camouflage scheme is nicely done. Well done sir, well done! Bravo-Zulu!
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:smiley:
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:smiley:
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Nice work, I would love to build one myself but as you've shown you need to cobble together multiple rare kits and aftermarket parts together to build one. When RFM released the T-34/122 I was hoping they might release a T-34/100 too but unfortunately not..
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Nice work, I would love to build one myself but as you've shown you need to cobble together multiple rare kits and aftermarket parts together to build one. When RFM released the T-34/122 I was hoping they might release a T-34/100 too but unfortunately not..
Thanks all for your nice comments.
Mig Eater - Accurate Armour used to do open-topped turret conversions for both the T-34/122 & T-34/100 - you may be able to find them on ebay, Hyperscale, TankTalk etc. Coupled with DML T-34 hulls its do-able.
My next build may be the Cuban T-34/122 Howitzer - have the kits - Marquette hull + Trumpeter Howitzer - despite the high cost.
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I've looked at the Accurate Armour conversion in the past but its just the turret shell, you still need to get a hull and the 100mm gun separately yourself. Accurate Armour is in process of closing down too so their products are shooting up in price on the secondhand market now :(
Ah the Cuban T-34/100, I have that on my to-do list too. I have a suitable Miniart T-34 kit ready for the project but the Trumpeter KS-19 100mm gun has been out of stock at my usual suppliers for awhile. I look forward to seeing how your build goes :smiley: