116 Wheels nearly there Sept 10

Modeling Subjects Armor
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Well its a Russian Voroshilovets Tractor , Picked this one up a few weeks ago just because it looked supoer cool. and I was browsing through the GB section and seen a “Made in the USSR” Gb and fell in love with the idea of entering.

Well last Sunday evening I sat down and started on the kit, the 150 track links cleaned up very easily and have a snap together feel to them, the kind remind me of the older model kasten sets in colour and presentation and of course workability. Three hours roughly had the tracks ready.

the tractor has a lower hull spotless clean and beautifully produced, in this shot I have added front details and exhausts and final drive housings.

The drive sproxkets had a fair amount of floash but that is no major inconvenience.

Some of the major components,

THe Tarp.

The bonnet, a beautiful piece.

The Cab again excellently done.

THe return rollers just snapped in place for the moment there is six of these sets and more on the suspension assemblies which gives you a total of 20 return rollers.

The underside of the flat bed, this is the only place I have encountered ejector pin marks and filled them. There is more on the back of the suspension assemblies but they are almost invisible.

The flat bed assembled, the interior parts are not glued in yet.

Just a quick shot of what we are looking at so far,

Now for the intensive/boring bit, 64 road wheels.

These glue together in pairs and are mounted in sets of four.

This is the suspension assembly, two springs which literally clip in place and two return rollers, there is pin marks on the back of these but they will be hidden by the hull.

The progress so far, not glued up for the moment because I need to spray in sub assemblies.

All together so far this accounts for just under 10 hours work.

This is an expensive kit €38.

Maybe not as expensive as a new Tamiya or Dragon release. The quality is certainly up there. Its a great subject, and on another note I have never recommended a kit that would be great for a first armour build but this is. I love it.

Thanks for looking in.

Terry.

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In one word 'eeeek" .

Greg"Detailfreak"Rowley[Y]

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ok i’m convinced gotta have one for my very own … probably should ask the wife first… naaa i’ve been in trouble before LOL , looking forward to seeing more.

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When i saw the first pic i thought 64 wheel, what am i missing. But nope, your right, it sure does. Be nice to see another of your builds Terry.

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As I said on the other thread, this is going to look soooo good.

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man Terry cool beans ! you can sure pick 'em … what happened to the LWS… did I miss the final pics ?.. if I did, please put up a link : )

yer pal ,

Gabby ol’ bill

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I admire your patience to assemble all those road wheels. Yuck. On the other hand, this is a cool subject.

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I just had a terrible thought – painting the “tires” on those countless road wheels. [:S] Airbrush and template/mask, I guess.

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Yeah… we’re watching you.

So many wheels,

but where are the Führers’ schleppers…

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Where’d it go?

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You’re in road wheel heaven (or hell depending!). Not a subject you see done often but am sure you’ll bring it to life Terry. [Y]

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“What has 64 road wheels?”

I was going to answer: ‘Something out of my nightmares’ but wow very cool vehicle! Looking forward to seeing you posting more in progress photos of her. Much as I like Panthers, Shemans, and T34s I love off-the-wall stuff like this.

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Greg, Armornut Eric and Maj Mike thanks for the comments,Bish thanks for dropping by, just to let you know I was working on the 251/20 during the week and I hope to finish it this summer.

Steve, Billp, Billc and Gamer thanks for the comments.

I don’t have a photo update yet but to bring you up to speed I have painted the lower hull and all the running gear, I did hand paint all those rubber wheels. Road wheels idlers and return rollers totalling 88 tires. It still only took about 3 hours to edge all the tires in and back for about 20 minutes to finish painting…

Still only at about 12 to 14hours so far and its really enjoyable. I will do some photos tomorrow and hope to post during the week.

Terry.

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Always like dropping in on your builds, and they are worth waiting for. Can’t wait to see that 251 though, i keep worring that i have missed it.

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I agree… it will be little too difficult for me with my ADHD!. [:P] Knowing you, it will come out beautiful as usual and I am looking forward to it.

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Holy crap!That’s a lot of wheels!

Still, I love this vehicle–it reminds me of an old Model A veggie truck that went to war!

I know I have to get one of these!

Nice work so far!

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So many mini wheels .Its so very Russian .[Y]

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I spent the last two nights doing the road wheels for an early Tiger, I thought that was bad… Painting road wheels is to armor what masking canopies is to aircraft, tedious (at least in my opinion).

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Andy & Karl thanks for the comments. Karl I can honestly say with hand on heart that this is one really super kit.

Well I have an update ready. I’ll just go through the photos as there is no modifications made and no trouble at all.

The paint progress so far I ran out of my rattle can and had to buy two more on thursday.

Those roadwheels

track assembly took about an hour and a half.

I have done some highlighting and some washes, I’m going to hold out on further weathering until all base coating is done and all the weathering may be better done all together.

The tracks were painted with humbrol polished steel from a rattle can.

I must give the story as it happened. I thought all week that this monster needed something to tow and as I was going out to buy paint on thursday at lunchtime I thought that if the shop had a lovely big piece of Russian artillery to pull then I would invest. €50 by the way but worth it.

I have started construction on this gun but have no pics readyy as yet but I will say that it is not of the same quality as the tractor.

So heres the sprues …

I will try to get updates done ASAP.

Thanks for dropping by.

Regards,

Terry.

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holy crap terry! I guess there is a lot more to this build than meets the eye!!

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Will look impressive towing the monster, look forward to it Terry! [B]