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Greetings Comrade Tank Builders! Way, way back in time a very few T34/76 tanks were supplied to China and N.Korea by the Peace Loving Peoples of the Soviet Union for training purposes. Incredibly some survived - in use in their intended role! - until the early 21st Century. Here is proof: As featured on N Korean TV which enjoys a reputation for unbiased and accurate reporting on a par with the BBC. So it must be true. You can just about make out the guide teeth telling us that it's not T-34 track anymore. I'll be doing a dig later but they were upgraded to T-55 track and drive sprocket at some stage. So starting with this: and: The rest of the T-55 kit won't be wasted as I have a plan. The wheels are from OKB Grigorov and aren't the same as the T-54/55 wheels which is as it should be. So the bench is clear while I await the detail set for my Corsair I may as well crack on.

I'll be building this kit once the build starts: I'm planning to do a straight OOB with the only addition being a metal barrel I have that's hopefully the right size. A nice and cheap kit, hopefully without too many fiddly bits.

Feeling a bit bored in lockdown, I decide to weather some of my older models. The WIP can be found here: I would like to thank everyone who gave advice, that made the once abhorred task of weathering rather pleasant. The photos follow: The T-62 A The T 34/76 The StuG IV

After the success in weathering the m10, I felt why not weather (and repaint) some of the models I made when I was starting out. For now there are 3 models, the T 62, Stug IV and T34/76. I plan to start off with the T 62 and work forward.

Hi Pals, today I would like to share with everyone, this model in the WIP section, instead of the RIP, although it is already finished. The reason for this is that it was one of the first ones I did, when I resumed my hobby after many years, and I was not yet a member of the forum, and did not even notice, that I could document the assembly, or share the result afterwards ... Although not bad, IMHO, if we consider that it may be the 4th or 5th model that after about 20 years without touching the hobby, still did not have many resources or utilities of new generation, and new techniques, was still discovering them. The kit, is a ZVEZDA, and should really be an Oldie, because if at the time (about 15 years) that "sleep" in a closet, you add what probably had been packaged since its manufacture ... It was made of light gray plastic, and since most of the kits I had kept, the halves of the hull, were somewhat crooked, so I had a hard time straightening them and keeping them aligned. Some pieces were also broken in the process, although I could fix them. What really annoyed me, is that at the time of making the cannon, were all the pieces, except the cannon, damn ... In that moment of beginning of the hobby, the metal cannons for me were an unknown totals, besides being very difficult to obtain. It occurred to me how to fix it with the means at my disposal, namely, in the box of spare parts, I had a 76mm gun of the Sherman of Italeri, already mounted and kept "centuries" of a kit become pieces. Since there was a staple where the missing piece had to be, there was a perfect gap between one end and the other, so I just had to cut the Sherman's cannon "tailor-made" and adjust it. I modestly believe that the result was good, feet their measurements I checked them by doing scale conversion calculations. The point that certainly was, and is not the last time that happened to me (ISU-152 same case), are the tracks that brought the kit, extremely little detailed and with a very rigid and unnatural plastic. With this issue, the same as with the metal cannons, Friuls or similar ... What is that ?? ... lol. As always, I tried to do my best with what I had. As for weathering, similar, I had some new products (pigments, and enamels), but very few and not knowing how to use them properly ... test-error. I remember trying to make a modulated painting, leaving the base color much clearer at the end, but I liked it as it was. Basically, the final result, made me continue the hobby, and did not think about discarding the kit, which served me well to train with the new in the world of modeling. Now, after about 2 years built, I decided to try to improve it, because all the handicaps mentioned above, I have been solving with the passage of time. My idea is to put a new "slippers", metallic drag cables (what brings, I think they are pore of scale, very thick?), And a more aggressive and real weathering. With that I think I will win this modest kit a lot. Here below I leave a few pics, as it was finished at the time. You can easily see in some pics, the roughness of the tracks ... Next week, next update (i hope...), as always, thanks for watching and commenting

Model of the Soviet medium tank, icon of the Second World War. Baza is an ICM model for this little add-on. German painting. In box ICM model additions to the model T34/76 construction and ready model 1:35 ICM 35365 https://youtu.be/fqTWSK0ar5k