Gern's Zvezda 1/35 T-35

[Airborne01]

Well, I couldn't wait. Started on this last night - well actually about 3:00 am on Friday morning which counts as last night as I've slept since then. You guys know it's now Saturday but my body tells me it's still early Friday night. Oh the joys of retirement! Go to bed when you're tired, get up when you're awake - marvellous!

First thing I did was cut the parts for stage one from the sprue and start to clean up the attachment nubs.
Second thing I did was to dash into the bathroom to get a plaster for where I'd sliced my thumb with my scalpel - nothing serious or even painful but I must have caught a vein or summat 'cos I was dripping blood all over my cutting mat. Amazing how you can lose the knack of doing things when you don't do them for a couple of years!

Made good progress - for me anyway - with some sub assemblies done and the hull top almost finished apart from the odd few hundred bits of tools etc. which will need painting before assembly.

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No great issues. You can see I needed a little filler for the superstructure but everything else fits just fine. I did wonder why Zvezda made the cannon barrels in three parts until I realised they could hollow out the ends without slide moulds doing it that way. Very fiddly to get them dead straight but I think I got it.

More soon.

Take a series of photos of coagulating blood drips and then use them as definitive colour references ... :nerd: Oh, and then post them for the communal good!
Steve

[eddiesolo]

That new tool Airfix 1/72 Tiger I made had tracks like that, solid centre segments but wrap around segments for sprockets and idlers. They had the cheating, two piece version, went with that due to hands, it was harder to paint though. Hope all goes well Dave.

[Dave Ward]

I made this, early 2018, just dug out some construction pics - as far as I remember, there wasn't any problems fitting them!

If you really want to - you can count the links!
Dave

[Guest]

I was just going to say that Dave Ward had built this !
Dave those tracks just defeat me every time, even though the guys on here have explained more than once, bet you do them with out a problem.

[Gern]

Methinks I'll just put 7 links on each of the idlers and drive sprockets and leave the last link until I assemble the tracks. That's when these pair have stopped ganging up on me!

[Lee Drennen]

Looks good Dave

[GerryW]

Looking at all of these, I'm feeling pretty bad that I haven't gotten on with mine, but all are inspiring me to try something else afterwards.

[Gern]

Some progress on this.

Got the turrets finished apart from the MG's and any weathering I do - they will be last 'cos I'll only knock them off if I fit them earlier.

Very impressed with the kit as, apart from a few smears of putty on the deck superstructure, I've not needed any at all on the turrets.



Incidentally, does anyone know what the bracket doohickey fitted at the rear of the turret hatch is for? It looks way too big for an MG.

[Mini Me]

Looks like an MG mount to me.....never know 'bout them "Rookies" though! :thinking: looks like you are making some progress there Dave....nice when everything goes together easily. Rick H.

[Guest]

That is the mounting for a DT machine gun for anti-aircraft use.

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The barrel goes through the round clamp at the front, the curved rack at the bottom allows it to be fixed at various angles for firing against aircraft.

[Jim R]

Hi Dave
Bit late but far too much going on on the forum to keep up with - sorry.
Looks and sounds like a nice kit. Good start. Sorry to hear about your injury. Hope the puss cats let you get on with this :smiling:
Jim

[Lee Drennen]

Nice updates Dave keep them coming