Ranzhir Command vehicle, W-models, 1/72

[Silenoz]

The Ranzhir is a changed MT-LBu from the Russian Federation serving as commandvehicle for TOR and Tunguska AA-units.

 

Tunguska:

 

Tor:

 

The basic MT-LB is a fully amphibic artillery hauler originating from the fifties, and served in numerous versions in most warshau-pact countries: as an artilleryhauler, APC, recon, command, AA, etc.., etc... To this day it is still used in modernised versions.

 

The mother of all:

 

The W-models kit:

 

 

And I forgot to take a picture of the loose parts..., mea culpa, but here you see the basic construction, ready to be checked for seams etc... before the small parts will be mounted:

 

 

The rear hull will be the most demanding part:

 

and the rest of the parts, ready to be assembled in time:

 

The PE was thick and hard to bend, that's why the PE is still open on the thinner bends, Didn't dare to heat it with a lighter, because I was afraid to burn through the fine details.

 

In the kit there's an antenna placed on two brackets:

 

 

and was looking how it was mounted when deployed, this I received fom the manufacturer, but the vehicle is in the way 😉:

 

 

The gunfire museum in Belgium could eventually help me out...

 

and had this picture for me:

 

So I ordered some Albion tubes...

 

Also placed the handles:

 

 

 

Next up is making the tow-cables, the telescopic mast (hopefully) and it's bracket + a few more brackets that I had to sand away

Edited November 6, 2019 by Silenoz

[FrancisGL]

Interesting subject, very curious...

Cheers mate 👍

[Silenoz]

Bit of silence with this one, but was waiting for some marterial to be able to continu...

 

The mast consists from 7 sliding parts, so I've bought 2 slidefit sets from Albion Alloys. Only disadvantage is that these sets sets can't be combined. so I had to enlarge a hole, which led to some deformation (only 0.1mm material thickness). Lengths are based on the resinparts.

 

and both sets assembled:

 

then I drilled out a tube of 2mm to make these fir and cut and bent some brass to make the antennaholder:

 

this is 8mm by 2 by 2mm... seems larger on the picture 😉. The two axles at the back are to be able to mount it to the vehicle:

 

and fully assembled...

 

I have no clue if this height seems legit or not... so opinions, remarks, etc about this are welcome...

 

ready to add the rest of the detail...

Edited November 19, 2019 by Silenoz

[Silenoz]

A bit of progress, but didn't have a lot of modelling time lately:

 

Added some detail to the back that I needed to sand away:

 

The hooks for the tow-cables are made, but not yet fixed. Just some copperwire squeezed and bent:

 

The hooks at the rear serve to attach these. They are used when some deep water needs to be crossed:

 

some vanes were missing:

 

Then the mast was also finished:

First I made it shorter by 2 sections, as per picture I've found, and it's more easy to transport.

Then I made the thicker parts of each section and added some rivets (0.5mm)

 

 

and where the wires to stabilize the mast when extended are attached:

 

And the overview of the porcupine:

 

 

Still the lightguards, brackets when the antenna is stowed and tow-cables to do.. 

 

[Bullbasket]

Excellent work with the metal, especially in this scale.

 

John.

[Silenoz]

Thx,

 

just added a small how to about the clamps:

 

[Roy vd M.]

Nice little tutorial, method makes sense, thanks for taking the trouble of illustrating this.

[Silenoz]

Small progress. 

 

The lightguards are made in PE, but that is too flat instead of round. So I soldered two wires to eachother, cut it to the approx. measurements of the PE-parts. Then bending, dry-fitting and cutting and repeating for the other side, but then to make it as similar as possible to the other side... 

 

 

 

hope they look good...

 

I've also made the transport brackets. The base is shown in the previous post, then I've added a flat plate, and later on also a bar to strengthen the connection to the hull.

I don't have pictures of this, as the evening started with an AAAARGGGGGGGGGGHHH moment when my VT-55 tried to be an aircraft but didn't succeed in the landing test

 

 

not a good way to start the evening, but it is fixable...

so only the finished pictures.

 

 

I've only drilled holes on one side of the brackets because I think they fold open (otherwise I suppose it would be a good way to loose the parts..)

 

on to the tow-cables

[Bullbasket]

On 07/12/2019 at 08:23, Silenoz said:

The lightguards are made in PE, but that is too flat instead of round. So I soldered two wires to eachother, cut it to the approx. measurements of the PE-parts. Then bending, dry-fitting and cutting and repeating for the other side, but then to make it as similar as possible to the other side... 

.....and it worked. Three dimension looks so much better than two. Nice work.

 

John.

Edited December 8, 2019 by Bullbasket