T-34/76 Mod. 1940 ~ DML

[Jamie Tainton]

more progress- these photoetch are time consumers!

[Tony Lee Watts]

"Time Consumer" I feel like that's part of what it's all about???
Time well spent away from the rat race.

Tony lee

[Jamie Tainton]

No you are right it is good time but often half the time I am on my knees looking for parts that slip out of my fingers or get sprung out into the ethos. Or the other one where stuff already attached gets knocked off or damaged. And the hoarder's pile of un-built kits staring down at me and me feeling I will never get the time to build them all. Yesterday I spend the better part of 5 hours fabricating the fire extinguisher mounts, slow going but in the end worth it. Speaking of Russian fire extinguishers anyone have an good reference or information on these things. Totally new ground for me.

[Tim Coulson]

Looks great Jamie, time well spent.

I hope to start soldering etch on my Panther in the next couple of weeks.

Tim

[Jamie Tainton]

Look forward to your reports Tim.
Some pics from yesterday.
Look at what it takes to make the fire extinguishers and mounts compared to the two blobs of plastic from the kit! Ha ha ha ha!


Progress, also I took one of the extra fuel cannisters off to add interest.






















Filled in the holes that were meant for the headlights





Headlight mounted


The other headlight getting tweaked out. First I cut the mount off the plastic part and then hollowed out the insides. Then I will use a tiny cut from a hypodermic needle and some wire. I plan to have them both in rather dis-used shape.

[Dario Risso]

Dude...I'm speechless So many details added...

Darío

[Pierre Parroux]

i'm sure, there are minimoys working for him.

[Roy Schlicht]

Jamie, those are not fire extinguishers they are jacks. There should also be two blocks of wood on the rear fenders that act as jack blocks or chocks. Well technically they're chocks (for rail transport) but they can still be used as jack blocks if needed. They dissapeared on later versions. Great job.

Roy

[Jamie Tainton]

[Jamie Tainton]

Okay, this is getting bogged down case of interior issues, having to make duplicate parts being the biggest hangup, and painting. Well I have made some progress. I will not be doing very much really just a sketch of stuff in the dark as the front hatch will have a guy plugging up the opening for the most part. I don't really care for interior- more trouble than they are worth sometimes!

So in this picture you can see I am hollowing out by hand one of the front head lights with a Dremel tool. Into this will go the two part mount which then in turn is soldered to the Aber U shaped mount. I bent it all up so it looks like its been in the field.






Here it is one the tank's front sloping armour. You maybe able to see I also added two new Aber periscopes to top the front hatch


here is a couple shots showing an attempt with wire from a bread bag to authenticate the kits tow cables.




interior paint progress




a test fit of the figures