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Zvezda 1/100 T-35 - Completed.


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Build 6

I've been waiting to get my hands on one of these for a few weeks, I picked one up in Antics today and started building just gone 7pm. The real tank was a bit of a beast, having 5 turrets and 11 crew! I'll post a comparison photo with my KV-1 & KV-2 tanks tomorrow.

Price: £2.99 Antics.

Box and sprue shots...

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Although there are photos of the T-35 without the radio aerial around the turret, I thought it looked a bit plain and decided to scratch build one. It's just copper wire as the supports and jewellery wire as the aerial.

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All parts cleaned up, and I've added shackles and the protruding ring around the co-axial gun. Just about to pop off and give it a wash so it's thoroughly dry before I prime it along with the KV-1 & KV-2 tomorrow.

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The radio aerial looks the business.

Cheers. I won't tell you how many times I glued myself to it...

I primed it today, after drilling out barrels and periscopes, along with the KV-1 & KV-2 I'm building. I was keen to get the T-35 built last night so I can paint them all together, seems silly not to seeing how they're all going to be the same colour. (One of them might get a winter scheme, not decided yet.)

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Here's a couple of size comparison shots with the KV tanks.

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I never realised that it was so much bigger than the KVs, daft really, it has to be big due all the turrets but I just imagined it to be about the size of a 'Stuart'!

That second last pic of head on 3 abreast looks as though it could have come from a Dragon box. Three nice looking tanks there. :popcorn:

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I never realised that it was so much bigger than the KVs

I was really surprised when I pulled the sprues out of the box, I thought it would be roughly the same size as a KV.

After pre-shading I sprayed a few thin coats of a custom green mix followed by some post shading. After that I gave it a few coats of Humbrol Clear. I should be able to get some washes done tomorrow.

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That is cracking so far!!

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