Shilka

Scale:: 1:35
Status:: Completed
Started:: March 25, 2020
Completed:: October 13, 2020
Time spent:: 6 months 3 weeks

Project inventory

Full kits

Soviet

ZSU-23-4M/M3 Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun SPAAG

Hong Model 1:35

H-5001 2015 New tool

Detail and Conversion sets

Modern Soviet

ZSU-23-4M “Shilka” Basic Set for Hong H-5001

Voyager Model 1:35

PE35823 2016 New tool

Tracks for ZSU-23 Shilka / SAM-6 Kub

MasterClub 1:35

MTL35044 Multi-topic (1!!)

Barrels for Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka Self-propelled AA gun

Aber 1:35

35L213 (35L-213) 2018 New tool

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Project references

Shilka AA Gun ZSU-23-4 V1/M in World Museums

Green line No. G 045

Jan Horák, František Kořán

2016

Photoalbums

Shilka

149 images

1:35

Project: Shilka

1:35 Barrels for Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka Self-propelled AA gun (Aber 35L213)

1:35 Tracks for ZSU-23 Shilka / SAM-6 Kub (MasterClub MTL35044)

Comments

25 March 2020, 23:25

Steven Van Dyck
Construction is not straightforward because of some errors made in the manual and some pins to be removed, but details are great, like the tyre dimensions on both halves of the wheel. Care should be taken to align the torsion bars and axles.

4 April 2020, 23:46

Steven Van Dyck
The Masterbox tracks are completely assembled in 3 days. In fact, I overassembled them, because you get 210 links and you only need 182. Luckily, they are easily disassembled. A remark I can make is that the Hong wheels don't fit easily between the guard horns. I rolled one wheel over both tracks to bend the horns a bit outward. This can be due to Hong or to Masterbox, but it would be a lot harder to sand the wheels. Maybe if you saw them in half, removing half a mm of material and glue the halves together again to not lose the rim detail?

22 April 2020, 22:05