T34/76 1940......Revell (ex-MB) 1:76th scale

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T34/76 1940......Revell (ex-MB) 1:76th scale

Post by Beowulf Shaeffer »

a lot of fun to do.....im really getting in to playing around with braile scale stuff

pics come out a little bit shiny due to the flash i think, cos its isnt really :???:

with something for scale comparison

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Matchbox...responsible for introducing more schoolboy avaition modellers to AFV's than anyone else!
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Brews wrote:Generally, very nice. As cool as that 12.7mm looks, though, it doesn't belong. :)

i know but it was in the box and looked cool so it got added :-D ......im not one for sticking to accuracy anyway ;-)
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Why doesn't it belong?

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I still don't understand the why.
Who says that such a weapon wasn't fitted by an innovative T-34 crew?
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Nice looking diorama. I think it looks great.
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theres also the fact that this is supposed to be a very early T34..........at that point in the game it was probably more important for ground troops to use heavy MG than mount them on tanks and Dshka would have been in short supply.....also Soviet warfare methodology was different.......tanks were supposed to be cheap and replaceable (i nearly said considered disposable but you know what i mean)
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Great work. Love these Matchbox kits and am now off to dig one out of the stash.

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Brews wrote:
Beowulf Shaeffer wrote:theres also the fact that this is supposed to be a very early T34 <snip>
Mind you, even early T-34s made it to Berlin. Not many of them, though. The average life of a T-34 at the front was 3 about weeks, after which it was either written off or rebuilt.

And not just the "normal" early T34/76 made it to Berlin.

http://beute.narod.ru/Beutepanzer/su/t- ... ptured.htm;
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I like Alan McCoubrey!
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Hi,

I think your T34 kit looks great,this kit was the first matchbox AFV kit i bought in the 1970's,i still have a couple in my stash and think i will dig them out and build them after seeing yours,i also like the gun on the top too,though i don't recall ever seeing any photo's of one fitted and hadn't paid any attention to this fact until i saw this thread.
I was looking at an osprey book about the T34 tank in waterstones bookshop,and there was a few pictures in it depicting the T34 tank 76 and 85 versions shown with the AA gun mounted on top,i can't remember the title of the osprey book or the war zone theatre shown but the guns were fitted,so some must have had them then at some point.

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Post by shangos70 »

I have one of these and know next to nothing about afvs. Painting the dio to look something like has stopped me making a start so far.
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