Tag: tracks

• Sherman Tank – Part Four – Aha, A Flaw!

  

  And I did not think I would find one in this Zvezda kit. One of the mufflers is missing. The plastic stock box yielded a bit of Evergreen tube and its end was sealed with Milliput. Simple. Every other blessed part fit perfectly – and spending a day making the bogies was a real pleasure.…

  Dick Stein

  July 17, 2023

  1:35 scale, design, Military models, Russian models, subassembly

  bogies, hull gaps, tracks

• TKS Tankette – Part Three – I Cover My Tracks

  

  And so I should – they are horrible. The plastic track option for the TKS was all I feared it would be. I’d seen club mates constructing their own 1:35 tanks with separate track links and just thought it a charming pretension on their part. Hypertension more likely – what looked to be a difficult…

  Dick Stein

  February 20, 2023

  1:35 scale, Colour Schemes, design, Military models, Painting, research, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, Weathering

  complexity, TKS, tracks, Weathering

• WW1 Female Tank – Part Three – Makin’ Tracks

  

  The tanquistas at my scale model club are variable creatures. It pays to be careful when you talk to them. While they are building the hulls and turrets they are cheery. You can have a jest about anything. While they are painting interiors they are happy and contented. When they are assembling tracks from a…

  Dick Stein

  October 2, 2022

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, design, Military models, Painting, research, subassembly, Uncategorized

  paint, tank, tracks