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gorby
gorby
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Let me introduce you to my first and ONLY attempt to model a tank with a full interior.

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Mind the gap. 
 

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Now….where did I park that tank? 
 

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A little know feature for those hot summers on the Russian front. 
 

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Compare it to the toys the other team got to play with. 
 

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I've been thinking about getting a photo tent thingy with LED lights and then I realised that I already had something suitable. May not be idea but it's lovely and free. 
 

Коментарі

96 23 April 2022, 07:57
Spanjaard
Wow, what a superb work Gorby!
23 April 2022, 08:09
Robert Podkoński
You're fantastic, Gorby! Really good work!
23 April 2022, 08:48
Guy Rump
Beautiful build! 👍
23 April 2022, 09:36
Adrian Forest
Full interior at 1:48 is a lot to take on!
23 April 2022, 13:01
gorby
Thanks very much mates. Glad you like it. 🙂
23 April 2022, 16:40
Murad ÖZER
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! 👍👍👍
23 April 2022, 17:15
gorby
Thanks Murad. I'm not sure about brave. Maybe if I knew what I was taking on. Foolish would be much more appropriate. 🙂
24 April 2022, 13:07
Rui S
Beautiful work 👍
22 May 2022, 14:26
John Hughes
Nice job on your Panther Cabriolet, Gorby!
22 May 2022, 14:29
Simon Nagorsnik
Congrats and my respect for this Gorby!
You did an awesome job here👍
Out and inside are just real eycatcher!
I'm amazed😁
22 May 2022, 14:45
gorby
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.
22 May 2022, 15:15
Neuling
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?
24 August 2022, 10:29
Roberto Rocat
Great and interesting work!
24 August 2022, 13:59
gorby
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. 😄
24 August 2022, 16:32
Random Penguin
Nice build, Gorby!
Any problems with zimmerit during priming? Which primer did you use?
24 August 2022, 20:07
Random Penguin
Oh, man! After seeing all the trouble you had with interior it's cool that you didn't drop the build.
24 August 2022, 20:33
Christian Abraham
It cames out really great. Perhaps I should try one myself.
25 August 2022, 05:44
gorby
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'. 😉
25 August 2022, 08:47
Spanjaard
there are much worst obsessions out there, my deal gorby. i think you have a good one 🙂
25 August 2022, 10:43
David Taylor
If it's a disease I hope they d'ont find a cure.LOL.
25 August 2022, 14:11
gorby
😄 😄 😄
25 August 2022, 15:01
Random Penguin
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.
25 August 2022, 16:05
gorby
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?) 😄
26 August 2022, 14:27
David Taylor
If this is your first you should carry on this route.
26 August 2022, 14:41
gorby
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. 😉
26 August 2022, 14:46
John Hughes
Never saw some of the old Esci Shermans or Nitto M36's then, eh?
26 August 2022, 14:50
Bruce Huxtable
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.....)
26 August 2022, 15:05
gorby
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.
26 August 2022, 15:49
Random Penguin
Finally tried Tamiya Surface Primer can on mine, worked fine.
10 July 2023, 23:02
gorby
Good to hear. I'll have a look at your build.
11 July 2023, 09:45
Mick Burdett
Wonderful work Gorby of probably the best tank of ww 2
4 September 2023, 15:52
gorby
Thanks for your comment Mick, glad you like it.
As to best tank, Al Murray doesn't agree. 😄
Youtube Video
 
4 September 2023, 16:12
Rui S
Hahahahaha what a clown hahahahaha
4 September 2023, 19:08
Marcel Chmura
Wow looks fantastic.
11 February, 20:47
gorby
Thanks Marcel. 👍
12 February, 07:29
Kesa Tiho
A+ really nice finish. Loooove it. And the riger modelis joke had my laughing so hard i cried 🤣
6 October, 20:09
Lebloge
Just… Superb !! 🫡
7 October, 06:30
gorby
Thanks very much Kesa and Lebloge. Glad you like it. 🙂
7 October, 07:04
Pepe
Woooooooow!!!!
7 October, 11:11
gorby
Thanks Pepe. 👍
7 October, 14:07
Pietro De Angelis
Really impressive Gorby, congrats, and congrats also for the jokes, i can only imagine the patience it took to finish it so well...
7 October, 17:19
gorby
Thanks very much for your comment Pietro! 🙂
8 October, 07:24
Bohrmann
Very nicely executed 'effort' as you call it. I think the colour scheme comes out very well with the subtle camouflage patches. You built the model in a 2-month time frame but do you have any idea how many hours you put into it?
8 October, 09:32
gorby
Thanks for taking the time to comment Bohrmann. 🙂
Some days I might have work on it for 3 hours and then it might be half an hour or nothing, so it's difficult to say with any accuracy how many hours it took. I do know that I spent a surprising amount of time cleaning up the parts, there are a lot of ejector pin marks and a significant mould line on many parts.
Having said that it's an amazing kit which really pushed me to the limit of my (limited) skills.
8 October, 10:06
Mr James
Lovely lovely work. I like your camo painting and the interior details are great
13 October, 19:40
gorby
Thanks very much Mr James. 🙂
And thanks to all who have 'liked'. 👍
14 October, 06:37
Nik Watson
Absolutely superb work, the colour and depth of shading and shadow you've achieved is excellent.
Congratulations on your one and only full interior kit.....go on,you've got to do another.....👏👏👏

Watto. 🍻
14 October, 07:36
gorby
Wow thanks Nik, if I did any of that with the painting it was purely accidental. 😄 😄
No further full interior tanks are planned as I still clearly remember the pain.
14 October, 07:40
Robert H.
very nice, I like it, for sure was a lot of work 👍👍👍
14 October, 11:44
gorby
Thanks Robert. 👍
14 October, 13:29

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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).

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