GAZ-4 Pickup

Сергей Никитин · July 29, 2023

And hello again, colleagues and interested
Suddenly, a beautiful (in the absence of another) model from the 3D printing company "Military Miniature" was extremely pleased with its appearance.
The first fully printed product in my collection.
The detailing is minimal.
Working with 3D plastic was extremely disliked by the fragility of the parts and traces of printing. It took a long time to clean, skin and remove. Also, in some places, unsuccessfully broken supports (outright holes). Despite all this, it is easy to assemble the model (so there are just nothing details).
Some completely missing moments had to be reproduced.
Spare wheel holder (unfortunately, the photos do not give a complete picture of how it really looked, so what I saw and did)
Wiper. It is simply not in the model.
Wiring to the headlights.
The complete absence of the cabin interior (but due to the thickness of the plastic, in principle, this is not surprising) We have a saddle, a steering wheel and a gearbox handle.
I replaced the native dashboard with a product from Quinta Studio
Extremely unimpressed with the glass to the headlights. They looked terrible, replaced with what was left in the ELF stash.
That's all that can be said about the model.

Now about the prototype.

"Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov (birth name — Kirill; November 15 [28], 1915, Petrograd, Russian Empire — August 28, 1979, Moscow, USSR) was a Russian Soviet novelist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, public figure, journalist and war correspondent. Hero of Socialist Labor (1974), winner of the Lenin Prize (1974) and six Stalin Prizes (1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950). Participated in the battles on Khalkhin-Gol (1939) and the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Deputy Secretary General of the USSR Writers' Union." (с) Wikipedia

"Correspondent of the newspaper of the Western Front "Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda" quartermaster 2nd rank Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov (1915-1979, second from right) with military correspondents of the newspaper "Izvestia" Evgeny Genrikhovich Krieger (1906-1983, second from left) and Peter Ivanovich Belyavsky (1899-1968) near his official car GAZ-4. On the right — the driver of the newspaper "Izvestia" Pavel Ivanovich Borovkov.

Quote from K. Simonov 's diary: "We drove and were silent. They were silent for a long time. Then our old engine overheated from a long drive in such heat, and we had to stop about seventy kilometers after Roslavl and wait for it to cool down. We got out of the pickup truck, and Pasha Troshkin said: — Guys, but we got out, huh? But it was said wearily and without any joy. We were not happy that we got out. I just wanted to get to Vyazma as soon as possible and understand something there, in Vyazma. To understand what we didn't understand yet. Troshkin put us at the pickup truck and several times in a row took pictures of us as we were that day — tired, unshaven and, as it seemed to me then, suddenly, in just a few days, aged." The picture was taken on July 15, 1941, after K. Simonov and his comrades escaped from the Chaus, attacked by tanks, and went to Vyazma, to the headquarters of the Western Front." (c) waralbum.ru

I tried to reproduce the car from the photo. Tank - overfilled the tank from the remnants into something similar to the one from ZIS-5.
From Simonov's Diary: "We went on this trip without Surkov — Troshkin, Krieger, Belyavsky and me. Surkov sat down after the Krasnopol trip for poetry and stayed in the editorial office for the time being, giving us his machine gun for the road."
The number in the photo is poorly distinguishable, so what I saw, I saw.
Coloring as usual - Akan, Tamiya.
Pigments - Wilder
Wash from AK

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