That looks fantastic!

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Bones <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have just finished this diorama from World of Tanks of a Russian T34 and
> a thatched cottage. I have to say that this is one of the nicest and most
> accurate, with a couple of notable but easily fixed errors, models I have
> ever put together. The fit of he parts for such a small scale model is
> nothing short of astounding. The exceptions were where the top hull fits
> onto the lower hull where it was a couple of millimetres short and I had to
> put in a small strip to make up the difference, the tracks which were about
> 4mm too long and the insides of the rims on the road wheels that were a
> fraction short.
>
> All were fixable with very little effort and the rest fitted together like
> a finger in a glove. I don't really understand how the thing can be so
> accurate and yet miss on a couple of parts. In addition there are 2
> different models of the T 34 to build with 3 variations on the track
> builds. I chose the most difficult track build where each of the 10 road
> wheels, 2 drives and 2 idlers have about 11 pieces in each wheel.
>
> I learned a lot about butt joining small parts but considering that tank
> models have always put me off because of thee many small round parts to be
> cut out for the wheels, I have to say this was a pearler to build. All up
> I'm guessing about 40 hours to finish, well worth the effort and I would
> highly recommend this model for anyone who wants a detailed and easy to
> build model that takes up very little room.
>
> The cottage was made in 200gsm, the majority of the tank was 150gsm and
> the gun barrel and tracks were done with 80gsm paper. the base that it sits
> on was glued to some 3mm packing card that I scrounged from somewhere or
> other. As previously posted the models can be downloaded from World of
> Tanks here...
>
> http://worldoftanks.ru/ru/media/10/?page=1
>
> I wouldn't normally paste the cardmodel download page but if you go to the
> main site you'll probably never find the models pages.  I wish I could've
> posted the original photo I took so you could see a bit more clearly how
> detailed this but I know not all here have a fat connection to the net and
> a 2.2Mb pic is too much on dialup.
> Build and enjoy.
>
> Bones
>
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