Ok, I’m calling this beast completed… a damaged old shelf of doom sideline, many years, moves and repairs later, the old Dragon T-72M2/T-72B w/ERA. I added some resin stowage and figures. Also had a driver figure in there, but his head blocked the turret from rotating forward, so he was nixed…
“Vanya, what’s that flash in the treeline?”
Thanks for looking, comments and critiques are welcome…
Very nice. It looks great.
Thanks Gino. This one had a long rough road to completion. In a way, that’s a good thing, as my skills and techniques improved over those years.
I loved these kits back in the day! Art work was great, subjects were highly sought after, and no one in the West knew much about these tanks!
Great job, good to see one built.
stikpusher, it looks great to me. Your weathewring is subtle without over doiing it and your figure painting is very good. An excellent representation of a piece of Russian armor.
tjs
She looks great SP! Glad you dug her out and finished her. Esp love the mud splatters!
Hey! Stik!
Ya Nailed it! That looks great, the weathering is what sets it off!
Thanks for all the kind feedback guys!
Rob, when those Dragon Soviet AFV kits first came out I was in hog heaven for kit choice selection. I think that I eventually ended up purchasing the whole original series, although I still have a couple of T-80s left to build. Funny how Dragon dropped the Soviet subjects, but now Trumpeter has picked up that ball and run with it even farther.
Tom, the figures and weathering didn’t fight me as much as the basic kit did… LOL!
Gamera and TB, the mud splatters are the fun part. I’m learning more and more how to play with pigments to get that sort of look.
Great job Stik
Thank you Tony. It was trying at times, but worth it in the end.
Stik,
I have to agree that when DML started to kit 1/35 modern Soviet armor, I was also in hog heaven. My first DML armor kit was the BMP-1, which I enjoyed immensely. Accuracy issues aside, they were “the first-est and the most-est”. ESCI had a mixed-bag of kits before DML, and Tamiya just had the T-62. The T-10 doesn’t count, as it was a toy with actual rubber band tracks.
I think there will be a lot of Russian armor kits these days showing up with the “Z” or Ukrainian markings. There are kits that have been announced which will feature the “cope cage”. I hope for less and less real “Z” tanks in Ukraine.
I want a 1/6 scale Javelin. [:P]
Great work, Stik. Very nice work indeed. Only issue is it’s not burning in a ditch. LOL. Anyway, great detail, it’s very convincing.
BK
RG, & Brandon, thank you.
G, my first buy and build of those DML/Dragon Soviet AFVs when they came out was the BMP-2. I just liked how mean that one looked with the 30mm autocannon.
Brandon, the lack of this build having a KO’d look is the common reply it seems to be getting.
Nicely done. [:)]
Bit of kit trivia here. The original T72M2 kit (3501), sans ERA, was (as far as I recall) Dragon’s first 1/35 scale release in 1990.
When they came out, I loved them and bought most of their modern Soviet armor range. I still have a couple of the kits that I built from way back when.
Hey Stik, you did an excellent job with this tank. I see it likes to play in the mud.
Phil & Tiger, thank you.
Phil, I think that basic T-72M2 kit was the first of the tanks in the series that I built back then.
Looks just great!
Now, when are you gonna blow it up like a real one?
Blow it up? Never! LOL!!! Sorry that I missed your reply here back in the summer DM!
Well, one final post script to this build. It won 3rd place in 1/35 1946 to Current Tracked AFV at Modelzona 2022 here this past weekend! Woohoo [;)]
Congratulations Carlos. Well deserved - I almost went this weekend just to check it out.