Reini78 Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 #33/2018 My dad´s first 1/48 armour contribution to our homeland collection. Hobby Boss kit oob, roundel decals from IPMS Austria, base colour is Revell 46 Nato-oliv for RAL7013, shaded with a selfmixed acrylic paint. Due to the lack of suiting number and tactical sign decals, the tank is displayed in a very early form with only Austrian roundels applied. When the Allied occupation of Austria ended in 1955, the Russians "donated" 27 T-34/85 for the revived Austrian Bundesheer. The tanks saw WW2 combat action and were stored from 45 to 55. Together with a bunch of US donated M24 they were the backbone of the early Austrian tankforce. In the late 50ies early 60ies they were replaced with M41, 47 and 60. A few were dug in and used as fixed positions/pill boxes until the year 2000. A few survivors still exist in some army bases and in our military museum for display. Build thread here https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235046526-2nd-republic148-t-3485-austrian-army/ DSC_0001 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0002 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0003 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0005 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0006 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0007 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0008 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0009 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0010 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0011 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0012 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0013 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr DSC_0014 by Reinhard Spreitzhofer, auf Flickr 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 Nicely done! Mike. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted December 19, 2018 Author Share Posted December 19, 2018 On 12/16/2018 at 4:01 PM, MikeR said: Nicely done! Mike. thanks Mike! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 very nice model! not the usual operator when you think T-34! ok... another model I need to do! (will Tamiya do Leopard 2 in 48 one day???????) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted December 20, 2018 Author Share Posted December 20, 2018 5 hours ago, exdraken said: very nice model! not the usual operator when you think T-34! ok... another model I need to do! (will Tamiya do Leopard 2 in 48 one day???????) Possible that Tamiya releases one someday, but I guess it would be an A5 or A6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted December 21, 2018 Share Posted December 21, 2018 14 hours ago, Reini78 said: Possible that Tamiya releases one someday, but I guess it would be an A5 or A6 yeah..... better than nothing... but depending on the design that could be hard to convert! ... more likely the Bundesheer is upgrading their own ..... I assume you know this site: some great info!! https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2015/06/14/rearming-austria-wwii-weapons/ by the way, any idea bout at M24 Chaffee in 1/48? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Schilhart Posted December 21, 2018 Share Posted December 21, 2018 5 hours ago, exdraken said: I assume you know this site: some great info!! https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2015/06/14/rearming-austria-wwii-weapons/ Thank you very much for this highly interesting link, Sir! Best greetings from Vienna, Roman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted December 21, 2018 Author Share Posted December 21, 2018 8 hours ago, exdraken said: yeah..... better than nothing... but depending on the design that could be hard to convert! ... more likely the Bundesheer is upgrading their own ..... I assume you know this site: some great info!! https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2015/06/14/rearming-austria-wwii-weapons/ by the way, any idea bout at M24 Chaffee in 1/48? Maybe there is a resin kit, but turret numbers and tactical signs would be once again a problem in 1/48... Planning to do some 1/35 vehicles some day, Austrian decals are available from Schefczik Decals and sold by Austrian-Military-Models.at, but both sites are down due maintenance for some time now, hope they aren´t out of business, but at least I already have some decals sheets with number plates, numbers and tactical signs from them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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