AFV Club T34/76 with full interior

[Paul]

Ever since i first saw this kit ive wanted it, ive wanted to do a t34 for a while and with the full interior this is the kit i wanted.

Looks to be decent kit sadly with some flash evident, but nothing major. Good instructions as well as an good size colour drawing of a t34 are included, photoetch parts, plus a metal barrel and springs for the working suspension make this a well speced kit.





The working suspension can be seen here



And a start to the interior

[Paul]

5 Days, with no progress from me

Got the interior together, primer red on the chassis and an off white on the interior which i mixed from tamiya white and buff.





I then sprayed a dirty black thinner wash (very dilute) over the entire interior then using fm white wash and mig oil stain and thinner weathered it all giving a mix of colours and tones.





I weathered the engine bay more using the oil stain wash as it would have gotten dirtier than the crew compartment.



Enigine with its first wash, ive still got some bits and bobs to attach and paint.

[Paul]

Some more progress, bit slower than normal progress as im doing some home renovations.

Gearbox, radiators, exhausts etc all spryed upa nd stage one of the weathering usiing mig washes, ill get some pigments on them later. I also got the rear section of hull attached too.

[Paul]

I added some diferent coloured pigments as well as a rust wash and finally another oil and engihe stain wash. Im happy with the interior now and have moved on the the exterior.









I removed some of the wash from the crew compartment using thinner this left behind a worn effect to areas that would have collected dirt and grime.

[Paul]

Ok back at the t34 now.

Mangaged to get the turret togther and sprayed today, attached the manlet and the metal gun barrel, i will then weather all the interior of the turret in the same manor as the hull was done. Ime leaving the top of the turret lose to enable seeing inside the turret.

Ive done a seqeunce of pics to show how the certain parts can be veiwed.

[Paul]

Ok ive made a start on the winter camo scheme, starting with an overall coat of russian green. I will be following Mig jimenez guide in my osprey t35/76 book using filters and multiple layers of various paint.

Russian Green (Vallejo)


An varied coat of Vallejo air white, leaving some patches of green showing though



Then using tamiya enamels i dry brushed green brown and black around the grills and green all over the hull and turret. I then used the sponge method to add chipping and wear.






Then using a watered down vallejo white i mapped the entire tank, creating a patchy effect.







Next step a coat of sin industries tan filter, this with the enamel paints really brings all the tones together.

[Paul]

Ok Some more progress today, ive added some more whitewash to the paint scheme, brightening it up a bit more ive also added some more chipping to it too.

Using tamiya xf10 enamel and mig dark rust oil mixed i added some rust streaks and marks and using some thinner dragged thse down to give the effect of rust stains.

[Paul]

Got some more progress done on this today, its very nearly finished bar a few things.

[Paul]

Final pics can be found in the gallery

[Tiger131]

top work again bud thats one complete kit think im going to have to add it to my stash...superb work mucked it up nice

[ww2hispanomodels]

Nice work again, the dust and mud effects on the T-34 are really well made. The interior also looks great and it show all the parts of inside, which is great for those ones who loves this parts of the tank, like the engine.

[5Craven]

I love how all the detail is hidden, until you choose to reveal it. A scale modellers version of Russian dolls I think! A follow up question, why does everyone hate Russian Dolls? Answer
Their just so full of themselves! OK sorry, I will just crawl away into a corner and pretend that didn't happen!

[Paul]

I love how all the detail is hidden, until you choose to reveal it. A scale modellers version of Russian dolls I think! A follow up question, why does everyone hate Russian Dolls? Answer
Their just so full of themselves! OK sorry, I will just crawl away into a corner and pretend that didn't happen!

It's a brilliant kit everyone should build

And yeah you go sit in that corner

[Coen]

Snicker...

[AchtungPanzer]

Great model - Had to go for the ditch.

[UKguyInUSA]

Excellent work, as usual! I'm guessing there isn't much work in the Plumbing industry with the amount of models you're churning out just lately?!

[Unit53]

Cracking Job Paul, love that dirty winter look!

Martin

[dougall47]

Newbie first post.

Great job Paul, one small criticism, I see you used both air cleaner types, pancake style on top of the engine as well as the twin cyclone type behind the rear engine compartment wall, when in fact depending on production year, they would have used either one or the other, the inlet manifolds are there for both types. I am building the same kit but with all the clear parts (which I will be painting over as they have too many ejector pin marks on the inside which look terrible through the clear styrene). They don't mention in the destruction's about the two different air cleaner types, among many other omissions.
I love the weathering effect it looks well used.
Cheers Doug.


Ps; I will post some pics of my build soon.