Let me introduce you to my first and ONLY attempt to model a tank with a full interior.
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gorby you'r a brave one for sure, i wouldn't attempt this in 35th scale let alone 48th. however the end result is beautiful, well worth the trouble me sez! 👍👍👍
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Thanks Murad. I'm not sure about brave. Maybe if I knew what I was taking on. Foolish would be much more appropriate. 🙂
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Congrats and my respect for this Gorby!
You did an awesome job here👍
Out and inside are just real eycatcher!
I'm amazed😁
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Thanks Rui, John & Simon. 🙂
It really is an excellent kit - but make sure you carefully read the instructions and engage your brain as it's easy to stuff it up.
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Gorby: it´s the result and the qualitiy that count, all´s well that ends well! May be your early quick builds were not quite as good as the late ones?
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Thanks mates I'm glad you like it.
Neuling: One day I might get to be as good a modeller as you. Obliviously it won't be in this lifetime...perhaps the one after next. 😄
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Nice build, Gorby!
Any problems with zimmerit during priming? Which primer did you use?
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Oh, man! After seeing all the trouble you had with interior it's cool that you didn't drop the build.
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Thanks mates. 👍
Random Penguin: I used a cheap rattle-can plastic primer from Halfords (a car accessories retailer) without any problems at all – other than the Zimm decals are quite brittle.
I never give up on a build – don't think 'cool' think 'unhealthy obsession'. 😉
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there are much worst obsessions out there, my deal gorby. i think you have a good one 🙂
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I fixed the zimmerit on my kit by melting it down with plastic glue, so I wasn't sure if it would hold up to a can of primer. But since you say that everything is OK, then I probably will try. It's a pity I don't have much left of zimmerit except for Suyata's logo - there is almost nowhere to check how the chemistry will react with it.
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It didn't occur to me there would be a problem with the primer and fortunately there wasn't. Give it a go and you'll probably find the same.
(PS If it's a disaster, I can delete this comment can't I?) 😄
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I might need to give it some time until the mental scars heal. 😄
I'm more into 1/72 armour now (it's all Zsolt's fault I tell you!) and if anyone suggests building a 1/72 tank with an full interior, I won't be responsible for my actions. 😉
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Really liking the results, Gorby 🙂 Your notes and comments ring true for soo many of us, I'm sure 🙂 Ah, impetuous youth, where are you now...? Our discerning 'eye' is so much more developed, I'm sure, but the satisfaction of doing a nice job is the same 🙂 (I still kick myself when clumsy fingers break off fragile parts.....)
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John: I've concluded that any right-thinking person would agree that a tank model with a full interior is a ludicrous concept at whatever scale – 1/72 & 1/76 scale doubly so. Obviously if you don't agree I'm not going to categorise you as right thinking and therefore can be safely ignored. 😉
Thanks Bruce, I've reached the stage where I know when gluing a fragile part on that it's without doubt going to get broken off at some later point in the build. I find it always helps to have some favourite swear words on hand.
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Thanks for your comment Mick, glad you like it.
As to best tank, Al Murray doesn't agree. 😄
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This kit nearly drove me mad. Although admittedly for me that's quite a short journey. It's one part fabulous kit; one part the most complicated 3D jigsaw ever; and one part magic trick where everyone goes “Ooooooh” when the magician gets it right. I could never get the hang of magic and apparently I'm crap at jigsaws because I made a bit of a hash of it, resulting in the hull parts not fitting as they should and many of the miraculous moving parts, on mine are suffering from rigor modelis.
I don't mean to try and put you off the kit – it's amazing, and everyone should suffer a little in life. It's a kit for modellers with advanced skills, not modellers with advanced confusion.
This kit took me two months to complete and I was wondering what the 1970's half scale version of myself would have thought about taking that long to complete a model. Back then I was a modelling maestro,* my skills were the pinnacle of plastic perfection, finely honed to get those kits built in the bare minimum of time. 1/72 fighter – half an hour, a whole hour if it needed painting; 1/72 bomber might take me to half way though the afternoon; only with 1/24 kits was it acceptable to use a second day.
* Or was in my head. If I'd known that in the future it would take me weeks or even months to build a kit I'd have thought that I would become a decrepit old fart who'd squandered my magical modelling skills, learned as a talented youth. Mind you decrepit old fart bit was quite accurate. 🙁
Thanks for avin a ganders (That's 'Thank you for looking' for those of a non-Brit persuasion).
If you haven't seen the build report, it's here.
brexitmodeller.com/f..ith-a-full-interior/