T-34/85 Bedspring Armor Soviet Medium Tank Dragon 1/35

I got the hobby magazine prize in Hasegawa JMC 2007.

It is a T-34/85 Russian medium tank. It is a avoid of the German Panzer Faust to put the wire net on the side and the upper part of the tank at the end of World War II. I will finish it in the winter camouflage and attach some figures this time.
（2007/07/16）

Assemble completed the lower body. When I assembled the non-movable caterpillar last time, I tried to join all of the parts simultaneously, but it was not such good work. This time I connected these parts divided by five areas and fit them to the lower body little by little, and it worked well.
The finished caterpillar form was better than the last one. However, it wasn’t easy to adjust the length because the T-34 caterpillar is a pair of two kinds of parts.

A lot of photo-etched parts were attached. In addition, I had to cut the front fender and paste some parts, which takes much time. I expressed the damage, bending the fender a little.
(2007/07/18)

Almost assemble completed. After I had nearly completed painting, the wire nets were built. The metal barrel surface was lightly textured by sandpaper and improved paint sticking. Inside the engine, the grill was painted black in advance before I covered it.
(2007/07/21)

I shaved and thinned the edge of the exhaust muffler. There were a lot of photo-etched parts. The location of the wire parts was roughly decided. Each hatch is in a closed state this time because I plan to place the foot soldiers behind the turret in combat.

To emphasize the texture of the casting turret, its surface had been ruined with the putty.

I paid attention to setting up the wire net, running parallel with the armor unless the wire net was twisted.

In the case of setting the bed spring armor, there’s no space to attach many OVMs, fuel tanks, or toolboxes. Still, I installed the saw and the toolbox. The headlight’s clear parts are installed at the end.
(2007/07/21)

Work did not make progress because I had a business trip to Korea. At last, I set up the figure, and I had not given them their weapon yet. I was going to put three figures on the back of the turret, but there was only space for two figures. However, because it is the inclination armor and the turret was also large, infantry might not have gotten on this T34 easily. This figure joined the resin head to the body of the Tamiya kit. I chose the severe face of combat.

Basic painting end. I don’t understand the effective method for winter camouflage. I painted this tank dark green. I changed the contrast to spray dark green, khaki green, olive drab, etc. Let’s paint it white with a brush.

After painting in white, as shown in the photo. This photo is more natural than the below one, but at that time, I felt it was too dirty, so the final painting was as shown in the following photo.
（2007/08/08）

I will do the chipping in the dark green and white, washing lightly to complete the painting. The number of bodies and the stars was handwritten. Many Russian tanks marking were handwritten on the front lines, which were simple and rough. I have to attach an essential wire net.
Natural winter camouflage was very difficult to accommodate weathering.
（2007/08/10）

T-34 is a representative Russian tank that played an essential role on the Eastern Front during WWII. They battled with German tanks from the beginning of the Barbarossa Operation to the Berlin battle.
T-34/85 was strengthened arms from the T-34/76 type, and the turret shape was enlarged.
However, T-34s were divided into more variations in detail.
I got the hobby magazine prize in Hasegawa JMC 2007.
It’s more realistic to board infantry figures. It’s the next time goal. I went to the JMC Tokyo hall. All works of Master Class were terrific.

This kit includes the wire net photo-etched parts of avoiding Panzer Faust, and you can quickly reproduce the appearance of this bed spring armor. (I was saying quickly, but difficult for me…)

I challenged the winter camouflage the first time. At first, I painted the base color dark green and blew it in white. After that, dry brushing and chipping, etc. A turret number and red stars were handwritten as the tank crew’s writing on the front line.

The winter painting remains on the lower chassis. I tried to onboard two tank desants, but there was no space after attaching the wire net on the engine cover. There’s no figure this time because all the hatched were shut under the combat situation. These figures under working will have a chance to board the other vehicle.

I painted this tank in the image of early spring rather than midwinter. I balanced the base dark green, winter white, and mud dirt around the foot. I assumed to express rust a lot in the humid season. I placed rusting where the camouflage started peeling off on the upper part of the body.

I placed rusting where the camouflage started peeling off on the upper part of the body.

It is necessary to complete the painting to some degree before attachment of the photo-etched parts. The brush doesn’t reach under the net after installing these wire nets. I repeated the same work twice.

T-34, covered with the whole body wire net, is eccentric and exciting.

This kit was straight from the box, but I had to cut and paste some parts; there were also many photo-etched parts. It is pretty interesting to paint winter camouflage; it’s my first time. I want to try the painting of the North African vehicle next time.
（2007/08/17）