T-34-57 Model 1941

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The start of it all, chaos from the beginning!
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A little soldering
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My weapon of choice for the soldering.
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GWS Citadel Chaos Black Rattle can as primer
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Tamiya XF-9 and some masking
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The fighting compartment completed
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The engine bay ready for the engine
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All the stuff that goes into the engine bay
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The radiators
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The airfilter n' divider wall
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The cooler fan
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The gearbox
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The rear fender
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The chaos is constant
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The upper hull with the fenders removed
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The louvers for the air intakes
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The grills for the air intakes is in place.
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From tedious to worse by takin' on the small clamps to the inspection hatch at the rear
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Workable hinges. But I got a lot of help with 'em by using the hinges n' handle tool from Griffon Model
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The CA didn't bite as it should so I used a little baking powder
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Tamiya X-10 Gun Metal
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GWS Citadel washes, Badab Black, Devlan Mud, Ogryn Flesh och Gryphonne Sepia in layers after layers 'til I was satisfied. Before the two last layers I painted the cleats and other exposed areas with Tamiya X-11
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Here you can see one difficult thing with the Dragon T-34's. I failed to align the lower rear armor for the gearbox so that it in the end didn't align as it should with the upper hull and had to make som lousy atempt at filling the gap.
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I started out by roughly cuttin' up a block of styrofoam, the same kind that construction builders use for ground preparation
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Then I used drywall spackling paste to lay down a first layer on top of the upper surface. When that was dry I continued to build up the contours with papier mache
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Test fit
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Ground preparation
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Then I got busy with some gardening. First some gravel n' then some grass n' lastly some bakin' powder in order to simulate drifts of snow under the tank
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Then it was time to glue down the tank on top of it all n' start buildin' up the "snow" with more papier mache up n' against it n' even over it at the front
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The final result
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Comments

1 23 July 2015, 21:49

Rui S
Man no words for it. 90 photos of pure modelling skill's??? This is a hell of a job in the middle I thought that you where going to start up the engine and a prototype T34 in 1/35 was going to roar in some step near you hehehe. 👍 😄
But Urban Mate, I've also to say ( hope you don't get me wrong) it ended up to clean to be in the dio situation.
My Opinion... with that paint finish( not weathered), it should be in the red square parading on the 1st of May.
But as said real Impressive work skills. Congratulations 👍

24 July 2015, 00:55

Urban Gardini
Yes, it's too clean but the reason as why I didn't weather it when I built it back in the day was that it really was a factory fresh tank that Lukin took out to battle and that the ground was long time frozen before the first snow that came that night. But today I would do it different than I did back then.

24 July 2015, 06:15

Rui S
Hi Urban, Just a bit like the photo? I couldn't know the history behind it .🙁 but a Great dio winter scene anyhow 👍

24 July 2015, 11:33

Urban Gardini
Thanks mate!

24 July 2015, 14:36