Trumpeter T-62 Mod 1972

Modeling Subjects Armor
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Just because it’s been in the stash for a while, and I was pretty curious to see it next to the Tamiya T-62, I dug it out and got at it. Some of it’s pretty good, some I scratch my head over, but all in all it’s light years ahead of the old Tamiya kit, no news there. I’m using a set of Meng road wheels, adding a few weld beads here and there and a bit of PE along with the fret that’s in the box, but I’m not planning any major mods.I’m also using Friuls, makes my world round…

My plan was to build it as an Egyptian tank fron the YKW, but I think it’s too “new” for that one, gotta look up some book stuff.

Hull so far:

IMG_3773 by Russel Baer, on Flickr

IMG_3772 by Russel Baer, on Flickr

It’s been largely enjoyable, and I’m building it fully equipped, complete fenders even.

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WATCHING.

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I don’t think Egypt had that version of the T-62 during the YKW instead were using mod. 1967’s instead. All the pictures I can find of Egyptian T-62’s show the early version without the mount for the AA gun the mod. 1972 has. Of course I may be wrong as Soviet tanks get confusing.

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I think you’re right, and the AA MG is really nice too, nice enough that I want to use it. So… I dunno.

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Nice work!!!

I little confused though- are those tracks Fruils? They look plastic to me. Do they make plastic track links now or are my eyes messed up?

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Those are Friuls, after a good soak in muriatic acid. The kit tracks are good, but Friuls make me happy.

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I got busy at work so not a lot of progress to show, but a half hour here and there has gotten the turret moving along.

IMG_3995 by Russel Baer, on Flickr

The turret grab rails in the kit are plastic, nicely done and in scale but I’m pretty rough with things so I made a jig and bent up four using brass rod. The rest of the brass visible is kit-supplied. The snorkel tube container is the old Verlinden item, lnot used in my Tamiya build. It’s actually better then the Trump kit part(s), so I went with it.

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I think I’m about ready to paint:

IMG_4023 by Russel Baer, on Flickr

IMG_4022 by Russel Baer, on Flickr

I haven’t decided if I’m going to use any stowage, still browsing for pics.

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Looks fantastic Russ. I built the old tamiya kit many years ago. I love the T55/T62 series, there is just something about them.

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It’s coming along very nicely.

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Thanks gents. I like the Cold War Russian stuff too, very purposeful designs. I’ve got green on, will post pics asap.

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Ohhhh, that looks sharp!!!

Thanks for the info about the muriatic acid. I’d heard of people using it on metal tracks but not what they’d look like afterward.

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How’s this for resurrecting the dead: I painted this and promptly lost interest, put it in a box and stuck it next to a couple of other forgotten projects. Last week I was rummaging around, looking for something else and moved this out of the way, thought it was a shame to leave it up there and decided to do something with it. I’ve had fun lately building a few tanks with dozer blades on them and thought this would be a good candidate, but I didn’t feel like doing the necessary major modifications to a BTU-55 blade kit, so I dug around and came up with a fair representation of a KMT-5 mine roller attachment.
I used Academy and Trumpeter parts, a bit of styrene stock and chain from a Legends Merkava ball and chain bustle armor set.
IMG_4586 by Russel Baer, on Flickr
IMG_4585 by Russel Baer, on Flickr
IMG_4587 by Russel Baer, on Flickr
I’d like to do the very minor steps to finish, get it painted and weathered and NOT put it back on the shelf for another four years.

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Better late than never Russ! Funny how these old builds of ours can make their way back to front and center stage …particularly if they are constantly in the way. lol

Good progress and great to see you picking this one back up bud.

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Zombie… model! I love it. Great idea and execution on the mine roller. That thing’ll look perfect under a coat of paint.

I have a little ex-Soviet T-26 that I got to about that same stage, about as long ago, that still needs weathering etc. One of these days…

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The roller ass’y is painted. I found some better pics, actually of the earlier style roller, and realized I had two kinds of travel stops on the main arms, so I removed the late style, cleaned up and touched up where I took them off. Now I just need to decide on a scheme. I would do a Syrian tank from the Golan Heights during the YKW but I used RmSh tracks, probably too “late” for that period. I’m slowly looking for pics of something different that I can heavily weather, maybe still from somewhere in the Middle East.
IMG_4588 by Russel Baer, on Flickr
IMG_4589 by Russel Baer, on Flickr

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I went ahead and changed the tracks. Turns out I had enough of the OmSh Friuls left to do 90-ish links per side and have a few left over for spares. While I was at it, I added some basic representation of the release linkages for the roller assembly. I think now I’m ready to paint and do a Syrian tank from the YKW period.
IMG_4605 by Russel Baer, on Flickr

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Looking really good. Should paint my T-62 thats been on the shelf for months…

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Your T-62 turned out great. I really like that mine roller attachment on it.

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I wanted to see how well Silly Putty bought from a no-name Amazon vendor would work for masking before committing paint to the Chieftain, so I masked this one up and shot color number 2, Vallejo “bone white” from the can. It’s amazing how many games colors work for armor. I had to do some touch-up due to my haste in applying the Silly Putty, but I was happy enough with it to do the Chieftain the same way. It’s pretty bright now but this model is going to get some heavy weathering. I also picked up MiniArt’s Middle Eastern tank crew set, perfect for Syrians around the YKW period, which should work nicely.
IMG_4631 by Russel Baer, on Flickr
IMG_4632 by Russel Baer, on Flickr

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