1:50 Mark V Red Army

**CharlieC** · #1 04-27-2014, 09:26 PM

Next small scale model.

Wayne McCullough's Mark V. This is rescaled from the original 1:72 to 1:50.
I intend to build it without the unditching beam rails since the Russian Mark Vs didn't seem to have these. The tank model is a hermaphrodite (composite) with
a male(6 Pdr gun) and female(MG) sponson. All the surviving Mark Vs in Russia - there are about 5 of these - are all hermaphrodites.

The Mark Vs were sent to Russia after WW1 to support the White Army. After the Whites lost the useable tanks were taken on strength by the Red Army and remained in service during the 1920s. Wayne says that this model represents a tank of 2nd Tank Unit, 11th (Caucasus) Army, 1921.

The image is from Wayne's model distribution.

Regards,

Charlie

**Tim Crowe** · #2 04-28-2014, 12:47 AM

Looks a neat little kit

Tim

**Don Boose** · #3 04-28-2014, 08:31 AM

Standing by to watch this one take shape!

Don

**cardist** · #4 04-28-2014, 10:35 AM

Looking forward to this one Charlie. These kits definitely lend themselves to working in a larger scale.

Cheers

Bernie

**CharlieC** · #5 05-11-2014, 11:30 PM

Made some progress....

Wayne's rhomboid models all have the same structure. I've added embossed rivets - lots and lots of rivets. The edge colouring is a bit painful because of the two greens but the model fits together quite nicely.

Regards,

Charlie

**romanmodels** · #6 05-12-2014, 01:34 PM

off to a good start

**Don Boose** · #7 05-12-2014, 07:55 PM

Excellent choice for the next project, Charlie. You're on a roll!

Don

**maurice** · #8 05-12-2014, 10:31 PM

Neat build, Wayne's models are very well designed.
We trust you counted all the visible rivets on a hermaphrodite Mk V before embossing exactly the correct number, no more and no less.

Very unlikely unditching beams were fitted as the Civil War was relatively fluid. They certainly are not currently fitted on this pair.
The Refurbished Tanks | English Russia
(Note the slightly unusual method for traversing a rusty 6 pdr mount.)

**CharlieC** · #9 05-12-2014, 10:58 PM

Of course I did - not. I can't resist provoking the "Nietenzähler" by getting some of the rivet positions misplaced. Having learned the German word for rivet counter I'm going to practice it so it sounds like an extremely offensive term - something like the way the lead singer of Rammstein sounds.

I agree - no unditching rails. The Lugansk tanks had lots of examples of stress corrosion cracking in steel before they were repaired. I guess the traverse gearbox on the 6 Pdr hadn't survived.

Did you notice the green colour the restorers used on the Mark Vs? - certainly isn't the WW2 4B0 green. I've read that many of the early Red Army vehicles were painted Apple Green (or rather that's what the machine translator said). At least the Russian survivors resolved which tracks to use - Wayne supplies two widths in the model - the Russian tanks seem to be the wider tracks.

Still got to resolve on which side to put the male sponson.

Regards,

Charlie

**maurice** · #10 05-13-2014, 06:25 AM

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Still got to resolve on which side to put the male sponson.

Talk me out of believing "either" and likely in a 50:50 ratio.
The first 200 Mk V s had 20.5" wide tracks and the rest had the 26.5". The Kubinka Mk V has the wider tracks, male sponsoon on the left, and it's latest repaint now includes a distinctly Apple Green colour, together with very slack tracks.