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03-17-2018, 12:58 PM
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SMK heavy tank 1:50
The Soviet SMK tank was one of several heavy tanks under simultaneous development. Two KV-1s, two T-100s, and the SMK were formed into an armored company and were deployed in the "Winter War" waged against Finland from November 1939 to February 1940. The 55 ton SMK was disabled by a land mine on Dec 19, 1939. Although the crew was able to repair the damaged track on site, the engine could not be restarted and the tank was abandoned, not to be recovered for two months. The KV-1 proved to be the better performer and went into full scale production. The SMK and T-100 prototypes were retired.
This 1/50 scale kit is a free download from one of the paper tank communities at VK, Eastern Europe's Facebook equivalent. It comes in both green and the winter camo scheme that I chose. It was designed by Alexey Gvozdev and alexkung71. I built it straight "out of the box" for once, with no Photoshop customization. Assembly was trouble free. I had to enlarge my standard paper display base to accommodate this model, and added a wintery background as a finishing touch.
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Regards, Don I don't always build models, but when I do... I prefer paper. Keep your scissors sharp, my friends. 
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03-17-2018, 01:59 PM
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Great job on the SMK Don. Your track method really does look very realistic. Loving this tank kick you've been on for a while now.
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03-17-2018, 02:13 PM
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Great construction, it looks very good, great work, the chains with your method look very realistic, I copied your method in my m53 / 55 thank you for publishing it.
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03-17-2018, 02:58 PM
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Thanks for the nice comments fellas. I can't take credit for the string track link method as I saw it on a VK community page, but I'm glad I introduced it to the forum members here on papermodelers.com.
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Regards, Don I don't always build models, but when I do... I prefer paper. Keep your scissors sharp, my friends.
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03-17-2018, 05:29 PM
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Beautiful job, Don. It will attract attention in May at the Paper Modelers at Army Heritage Days event.
With the super firing turret, it looks a bit like a river monitor or a small cruiser on tracks. Don
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03-17-2018, 06:17 PM
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Another reason the KV-1 was chosen may have been that Kotin, the chief designer at the Kirov plant which built the SMK and KV-1 was also Voroshilov's (the Soviet defence minister) son-in-law.
Regards, Charlie
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03-17-2018, 07:12 PM
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True, Charlie. Some things never change.
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Regards, Don I don't always build models, but when I do... I prefer paper. Keep your scissors sharp, my friends.
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03-17-2018, 07:14 PM
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Don, I had the link to register with VK but seem to have misplaced (read lost) it. Would you mind reposting it? I'd sure appreciate it.
Also, do you happen to know offhand if VK still requires a mobile phone number to register?
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