Tamiya T-72M on Red Square parade

Party secretary coming up - salute

Almost past him, don't laugh now

Pheew, we made, time for some vodka

I ditched the plastic log and added proper wooden one with fasteners. Also modified the fuel drum holders.

Tank commander, modified his posture to salute

Driver came from Dragon's early figure set, was pretty un-pretty.

Weathered inside of the track with mud/rust

Hull mostly painted and ready to be mated with tracks

Wheels painted with white for parade

Dang! Driver does not fit in with barrel set on horizontal position.

Joke of the day: rear log (real wood) glued on and it's drying on a bench hook.

Comments

18 January 2016, 16:00

Kerry COX
Getting prepared for the "Red Square" parade. 🙂 👍
Looking great with that white. 🙂

29 January 2016, 21:36

Jonkka
Yep, I figured that it'd be a different with parade dressing. Problem with this Tamiya kit, which I did not know beforehand, is that barrel won't swivel vertically - and those parade tanks have all their barrels pointing up. 🙁

30 January 2016, 06:34

Kerry COX
Is there NO modification you can do to effect the raised barrel.?

30 January 2016, 06:45

Jonkka
Well, everything is doable as per motto of the engineers.

But the canvas mantlet is one piece and would be very difficult to modify for raised elevation. For a moment I considered heating it followed by a gently bending but even if that would have succeeded, it probably would have been impossible to get snug fit to turret. Then again, I could have removed plastic altogether and craft mantlet from fabric of some sort. That would have worked.

BTW: It's funny that on box cover pic tank has elevated barrel...

30 January 2016, 15:03

Robert
Had the Problem with my Zvesda T-72 ERA. But there was the barrel in the raised position and I wanted it in a normal position. This was possible without big surgery. Because there are ERA-blocks on top of the canvas mantlet, you can't see any fitting problems.

30 January 2016, 16:00