Improving the Dragon T-80 w/ERA

I’m building The Dragon T-80w/ERA… I mean T-80BV… Well, the kit is a real disaster… lots of unaccuracies and simplified details… So I decided to detail it a bit… Here’s what I’ve done:

The stowage boxes in fenders were horrible, so I decided to cut the pieces and fill them with epoxy putty:

Before:

After:

And in the other side… Before:

After:

The gun mantlet was too thick and didn’t fit the turret, so I decided to make a new one with epoxy putty… I also added several bolt heads to the gun barrel base:

The snorkel mounting brackets were too short and the snorkel looked in a strange position… Too raised, so I made two new brackets with plasticard:

Once installed, the original mounts looked like this:

This is totally wrong… The mounts shoul be on two pins each… like these:

Well, that’s all I’ve done… I’m working in my T-55 too, so I’ll be updating this project in a long time… Thanks for looking and comments welcome!.