Five-headed "dragon" of the Red Army

[Сергей Никитин]

So, my playful paws finally got to the T-35 from the Star.
This model was bought about 6 years ago. Then it was assembled and "brought to painting". Heh ...
naive on my part. 
It's been 6 years. I have somewhat changed my views on the assembly of models. And then an old slightly dusty box catches my eye. 
All the improvements that you see are the result of the last month of work. 
Complete replacement of rivets/bolts/nuts
Replacement of gun barrels
Adding welds
Alteration of the jack and its fasteners
Alteration and addition of the jack handle
Photo etching.
Working trucks from HobbyBoss, the conversion of native support rollers into something closer to the real ones. 
Modification of gun masks on medium turrets
And that's not all. I just won't remember everything.
And tomorrow I'll start painting this monster.

[Pig of the Week]

Some major works occurring there at Tankograd comrade !

Most impressive, I look forward to seeing it painted 👍

[Vapouriser]

I’m in no position to pass comment on your work, other than to admire the skill and effort on display. But I had to thank you for introducing me to this incredible and fascinating ‘white elephant’ which I was hitherto unaware of - I have applied this title after reading about how it fared in combat …

[FrancisGL]

HI Sergey, 

An impressive and very meticulous work, beyond my reach, skill and patience... I will love to see how it turns out finally, if the painting is up to the detail, it will be a winner... I made one of these, from the Zvezda brand, but OOB, and I liked the result, because it's a little giant...lol. I don't know if you saw it, because it's published in the forum, but it's already a few years old... I'll give you a link in case it's useful...

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235088453-t35-soviet-heavy-tank-the-soviet-landship-135-zvezda-added-some-real-pics/

 

Cheers and TC

Francis.👍

[Сергей Никитин]

1 hour ago, FrancisGL said:

HI Sergey, 

An impressive and very meticulous work, beyond my reach, skill and patience... I will love to see how it turns out finally, if the painting is up to the detail, it will be a winner... I made one of these, from the Zvezda brand, but OOB, and I liked the result, because it's a little giant...lol. I don't know if you saw it, because it's published in the forum, but it's already a few years old... I'll give you a link in case it's useful...

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235088453-t35-soviet-heavy-tank-the-soviet-landship-135-zvezda-added-some-real-pics/

 

Cheers and TC

Francis.👍

Greetings, Francis!
Thanks for sharing the link, I missed it)
A very, very beautiful painting job. Neat assembly, impressive weathering. And Zvezda OOB is very good.
In my model, I tried to eliminate those "inaccuracies" that the manufacturer could not / did not want to reproduce. And there are a hell of a lot of them.

Edited June 9, 2022 by Сергей Никитин

[Сергей Никитин]

2 hours ago, Vapouriser said:

I’m in no position to pass comment on your work, other than to admire the skill and effort on display. But I had to thank you for introducing me to this incredible and fascinating ‘white elephant’ which I was hitherto unaware of - I have applied this title after reading about how it fared in combat …

Thank you for your kind words. This build squeezed me dry.

In battle they acted extremely unsuccessfully. The tanks themselves were so-so, the chassis did not hold up well. Fire control is extremely inconvenient, although later machines tried to implement something similar to the ship's fire control systems. And the number of released ones is 63, taking into account a couple of prototypes. As a result, in the summer of 1941, all of them were somehow disabled/abandoned/just broke.
His younger brother T-28 proved himself much better, although also not very successful.