Hey everybody !

I'm happy to announce the completion of the Revell/ICM Ural 4320 kit in 1/35 (pics provided below). Would be great to learn what you all think of the result.

This is the second time I had to build it, I managed to snap a leaf spring the first time around, after the kit was almost done. This was enough for me to trash the kit and put the whole project on hold for a year. Well, a year down the track I bought the same kit again, and, for a change, managed to finish it.

The quality kit itself is pretty bad, the fit is awful and molding is atrocious. Lots of flash too. But I, since I always wanted to build a replica of this no-B/S Russian beast, I had to persevere through the process.... Enough talk, here are the pics for your viewing pleasure:

Well it is really great.
There is some details to fix especially the mud on the wheels hubs
also the tire on the front right wheels looks strange to me.

Did you use PE ? Resins wheels exits for this models ??

Cheers
Seb

Looks really good to me! Is it OOB or did u use something additional (PE, Resin-Conversions, own material and/or scratch-built parts?) I have the same kit from Alanger (I guess they just got the stuff from ICM) lying somewhere around... but needs still some time to be "ready" to be built

I really like the paintjob and weathering! Good job!

Do u have some pics of the progress?

Hi,
Another thing you could do is tone down/weather the spare wheel. It's much too shiney.
Good build though
Tom

Thanks for the comments, everyone. The kit is 100% OOB, no PE/resin whatsoever.

I realized that tread pattern on the left side is wrong, but not until I installed and glued them in place , so I guess it was too late to rectify

I'm going to weather the spare wheel a bit, and onto the next project - Dragon IS-2

looks so real!

i realy like the weathering love the dusty look thanks

I've never built the kit myself, but I've heard that it is a bear to put together. It certainly looks good when it's done. Nice work.

Man, those things were massive!



-YL

Nicely done. I built this one a while ago too. I was pretty pissed at the fact the completed engine could not fit properly under the hood. The only nit pick, as stated above, are the directional tires, and the spare tire really needs some weathering as well.

Is it only me, but do these kits come with ridiculously undersize tires, when looking at the real thing?

That IS a very nice build. I have two of them in my MSF but haven't had the chance to get to them in quite a while. On the tires, yes, they are directional, but it is actually very prototypical to have them mounted they way they are. I've seen them on this vehicle, and even directional tires on US f5 tons, mounted the "wrong" way. And yes, they are quite a bit undersized.

That is very cool it gets my vote
I think its the narly tyres that do it.

Very realistic indeed! Just two advices: there is a fingerprint close to the front plate number (a brush streak with pigments will remove it) and you should make the spare tyre a bit more dirty!

Here's a pic of the tires. Note one mounted in reverse:

It's not uncommon to see them mounted "wrong" here as well: