BT-5

[Сергей Никитин]

Good day, colleagues and interested!

According to the tradition that has developed for myself, by May 9 I am trying to build a sample of the Red Army equipment.
This time BT came to hand.

After the BT-7A, the tower from Tamiya remained. And the tower is good. And then the HobbyBoss arrived with their BT-2 "medium" release. 
The BT-5 model from Zvezda/Italery has long been the only opportunity to assemble something similar to BT. But, as has been discussed more than once on all possible forums, there are quite a lot of irreparable jambs there. Yes, and the model from Hobbyboss is more elegant and more carefully cast. 

But just like that, it didn't work out to assemble the model, as always. 
To begin with, the entire model was completely riveted. Hobbyboss rivets and bolts are extremely sad.
Added welds in the right places. 
The tower from BT-7 is also brought to mind by the photo and by the preserved samples. 

In the course of the assembly, the PE by Microdesign was purchased, gun from MagicModels and under the curtain the trucks from MasterClub.
Additional tanks from Dragon, a roll from gloves, self-made ammo boxes, duffel bags - pouring what was found in the "stocks".
The comrade in the tower is a tanker from the Zvezda with a changed head.

Coloring - good old Akan, a little Tamiya, a pinch of humbrol
Oil and pigments - Mig and co.

Enjoy watching! Thanks for attention.





And as usual - a photo of the prototype :

[FrancisGL]

Hi Sergey,

A nice vehicle, and very much in accordance with the real one.
It must have been very difficult to put all those rivets...
Cheers and TC
Francis.👍

[Bertie McBoatface]

Well thank you for showing all those in-progress photos. What a lot of work you put in to this build. It looks fantastic under paint and I'm full of admiration for your building skills. You have just made me smile. Well done!

[Pete Robin]

Amazing. I've glued up a few missing bolts, rivets etc. in my time but not to that extent. Well done. Finished off with a top notch paint job and weathered perfectly.

Regards

Pete

[Nenad Ilijic]

What a fantastic model. You did an incredible job with all these details. 

What do you use for rivets, bolts, etc?

Or do you make them yourself?

 

Cheers,

Nenad

[Сергей Никитин]

1 hour ago, FrancisGL said:

Hi Sergey,

A nice vehicle, and very much in accordance with the real one.
It must have been very difficult to put all those rivets...
Cheers and TC
Francis.👍

 

1 hour ago, Bertie Psmith said:

Well thank you for showing all those in-progress photos. What a lot of work you put in to this build. It looks fantastic under paint and I'm full of admiration for your building skills. You have just made me smile. Well done!

 

34 minutes ago, Pete Robin said:

Amazing. I've glued up a few missing bolts, rivets etc. in my time but not to that extent. Well done. Finished off with a top notch paint job and weathered perfectly.

Regards

Pete

Many thanks to all!

[Сергей Никитин]

29 minutes ago, Nenad Ilijic said:

What a fantastic model. You did an incredible job with all these details. 

What do you use for rivets, bolts, etc?

Or do you make them yourself?

 

Cheers,

Nenad

Master Club rivets and bolts different sizes)
Like this
https://www.super-hobby.ru/products/flat-spherical-rivets-0-7-mm.html

[sardaukar]

Great way to do a ready for inspection. Inspiring stuff.

[Milan Mynar]

Fantastic built.

[Yg Models]

master piece,

thx for sharing.

[supersonic]

Cracking effort, superb result!

 

Hans

[Stef N.]

I missed this. Fantastic workmanship Sergei. An odd looking tank, brilliantly modelled. Well done.👏👍