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Old 10-31-2019, 03:49 PM
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Managed to get the last of my wheels done.
The hefty 1mm diameter [174] enjoyed behaving as tiddlywinks which led to hours of fun searching the floor.
Added the nut & bolt shaft end in regular copier paper to see if it could work without fouling the body. I could have made it thicker it turns out. A lot of pieces per drive wheel ~70 & not a lot of guidance but they could look really good in expert hands.
Not too far off getting the running gear mounted now, provided nothing else slows me down.

I think I'm getting the hang of it, & am learning more about the tolerances of paper - which is far greater than I'd imagined when building the 'exact' parts from Halinski.
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Old 10-31-2019, 04:08 PM
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I've seen a number of rare beasts over there - Russian & German. If you visit Kubinka (outside Moscow) they have a worldwide collection which covers all the developments & has a lot of fun stuff to do
Oh man, if I had the health and income required for the traveling, that is a place I would love to go.

Model continues to come together nicely.
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Old 11-04-2019, 07:43 AM
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Oh man, if I had the health and income required for the traveling, that is a place I would love to go.

Model continues to come together nicely.
Thanks SWF.
Yeah the health & $$$ is an issue for me too.
& talking of bucket-list stuff, I found this a while back MiG-29 flights (not the URL I found as that was a direct link to the factory & from $7k to $16k IIRC depending how much you wanted to do). Once you get a Western Tour Operator in the picture, the price shoots up like a MiG on afterburners

A little progress - a rolling chassis on the horizon.
I tried with a couple of methods:
  • making the track a closed belt & leaving the drive wheels off the body until I had them looped into it, gluing once it was aligned & tensioned.
  • feeding the unjoined track along the wheels & then inserting the last pin.
In the end both work providing you remember to align the teeth on the rear drive wheel as the bars that would pull the track must be snug with the track teeth/face.
I ended up removing one pair of links, which wasn't fun, in order to get a less droopy feel, a qualified T34 Tankist would know that such a loose track would quickly be thrown.
This meant I used 34 pairs per side in the end. Might stick some of the left-overs on the body as spares or armor...
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Old 11-24-2019, 12:02 PM
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A few little additions.
Got the hub domes fitted & started on the exhausts as I begin building the details on the hull.
Paint will be needed to patch up the petals as the number & fine gauge cannot help to show the many white edges (at least at my skill level ).
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Old 12-02-2019, 09:19 AM
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Old 12-08-2019, 11:52 AM
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Thanks maestro Johnny

I've had few spare minutes to begin adding detail to the hull.
This has led to me wondering what it is that I am adding. This meant a fair amount of searching thru books & websites, without success, until I found a Russian T-34 reference, which helpfully had some original drawings & item specific information.

Having assembled [73] I discovered they are actually jacking blocks & the original 1940 blueprint shows them mounted at a different angle, it also shows the positions of the needed straps. Decided to copy the drawing not the model instructions
The jack assembly is [100-113] I think. (Not started that yet).

I've been so used to seeing the iconic cylindrical tanks mounted on Russian armor for decades of development, [143] surprised me by turning out to be the original external fuel tank design.

[60]+ I started work on the hull-front MG sponson.

[74]+ is the toolbox. Haven't gotten around to building that one yet.

I did manage to begin mounting things, as the pictures show, still plenty of tiny pieces ahead tho!


I found a translated to English T-34 users manual for anyone that would like to have a look. T-34 users manual <8mb
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GPM 353 T-34/76 mod. 1940-box-1.jpg   GPM 353 T-34/76 mod. 1940-box-2.jpg   GPM 353 T-34/76 mod. 1940-fuel-can.jpg   GPM 353 T-34/76 mod. 1940-rear-inst.jpg   GPM 353 T-34/76 mod. 1940-t34-bp.jpg  

GPM 353 T-34/76 mod. 1940-t34-bp-t.png   GPM 353 T-34/76 mod. 1940-73.jpg   GPM 353 T-34/76 mod. 1940-ng-housing.jpg   GPM 353 T-34/76 mod. 1940-t34-tb.jpg  

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Old 12-20-2019, 04:33 PM
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Had chance to fold the 'moths' into brackets [63-69].
Started whittling a match stick for the bar but decided the wood is too poor/irregular & so am going to roll a solid cylinder I can cut to length. I chose a lightweight newsprint-type paper for this.

The toolbox is slightly mis-marked, the circled bend line is around 0.5-1mm too short from the corner, the other bends match up OK.
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Old 06-08-2023, 07:18 AM
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Multiple surgeries later (incl. botched one...some people need to improve their knife-skills! ) I am finally picking up the knives again to do some cutting myself.
Fully intend to get this tank finished, like me it's had a loooooong break collecting dust.
Unsurprisingly it is all the small & tricky parts that need doing.

I decided to try the hinges [44] for the engine cover - these have a hefty 1mm circle to attach at each end. Managed to roll the tubes & get the end disks attached. Much like the towing hitches these are surprisingly convincing as parts once made up (despite my hiatus, which has made them & the pics less stellar than I'd like!).

Moved on to the lamps, more petals (!) & tail lamp. Front lamps will need paint to tidy them up I think. I tried a punch for the circular parts [84, 85] helpfully this ripped the paper instead of going thru. Blunt or just me? Probably both.

Made up another equipment box [80-83] & have tried to add wire loops to the tool box.
Decided to try some brush pens for edge coloring, we'll see how that works out.

Generally I am seeing what the designer intended & I think I am learning some useful skills, even if this tank arrives too late to see much action
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Old 06-25-2023, 06:28 AM
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Built & fitted the drivers hatch [47-56].
[47] needs a [47b] a usable draft of which I will add to the errata sheet at some point.
The viewport has presented a problem as it isn't built/shown correctly on GPMs model cover/website pics (image 10) & the instructions ain't clear.
I made a [47b] to fill the gap under the port after studying real 1940 model info & adapting the parts positioning accordingly (see 1st & 2nd pic). The viewport needs some forward POV not 99% upwards as is shown by the GPM build/cover image.
The 2 periscope viewports [54] are huge, but look cool once fitted.
The hinge is just a tight roll, [55-56] (tho it could have been made to function as with the tracks).
I decided to have the hatch partly raised. If building with it closed I think the [46c] **card could be omitted.
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GPM 353 T-34/76 mod. 1940-hatch-1.jpg   GPM 353 T-34/76 mod. 1940-hatch-2.jpg   GPM 353 T-34/76 mod. 1940-hatch-4.jpg   GPM 353 T-34/76 mod. 1940-hatch-5.jpg   GPM 353 T-34/76 mod. 1940-hatch-mounting-parts.jpg  

GPM 353 T-34/76 mod. 1940-part-54-peri.jpg   GPM 353 T-34/76 mod. 1940-peri-54.jpg   GPM 353 T-34/76 mod. 1940-real-hatch-2.jpg   GPM 353 T-34/76 mod. 1940-real-hatch.jpg   GPM 353 T-34/76 mod. 1940-gpm-hatch.png  

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Old 07-08-2023, 03:21 PM
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Attempted the Combat Cake Stand, AKA Domkrat, which when not serving pirashki, doubles as a jack. [100-111]
The instructions don't make it super clear which way up conical [108] goes & the size of the white place-marks doesn't match the diameter of the real part so I was lucky to have an illustration to reference.

Turns out shaky hands aren't great for exact / small cuts. But despite how they look with the magnification of the camera, they aren't horrible to the naked eye.
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