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Help with T-72/90 radiator grills
clay_cliff
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Posted: Saturday, November 08, 2008 - 04:04 PM UTC
Or whatever they are. I just took these pictures:





This is my T-90 project, the grills are from Eduard Zoom set for the Tamiya T-72 and they're not yet glued in place. As the picture show, you can see through the grills, I know that there must be cross shaped bars inside them like this:



There are two problem with that. Based upon in pics I have, I can estimate the thickness of those bars, but not the depth... Any recommendations?

Another thing:

In the second pic I removed the grilled part, and where it was placed I supose there must be a hole, Is that correct?... Any Idea about that?..

Any help will be a lot appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance. Best regards.

José
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Posted: Saturday, November 08, 2008 - 05:03 PM UTC
look here:
http://btvt.narod.ru/5/rogatka/mto.gif
It's outlet for turbo compressor ejectors. Middle bar looks to be almost beneath the mesh while smaller louvers are set further down.
P.S. What's with scratch built hull?
clay_cliff
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Posted: Saturday, November 08, 2008 - 05:42 PM UTC
Thanks for the pic. I decided to scratchbuild it because I don't like the Tamiya T-72 hull, it has some unaccuracies that I can't fix, the main issue are the radiator grills, In the actual tanks they're offset to the left (looking the tank by the top with the gun pointing upwards) and in the Tamiya kit they're in the centerline of the hull, It will be a little difficult to explain, but I've noticed that so I want my T-90 with the offset radiator grilles, even in the pic you posted, you can see that the radiator itself is offset down (as shown the engine area: top view with the front pointing to the left). The original idea was to make a full interior, but due to the lack of interior pics that will be a little difficult, so I only want to make that turbo compressor parts as they can be seen from the exterior. Best regards.

josé
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