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Oplot M 1/35
Stefan94SRB
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Posted: Sunday, October 02, 2011 - 05:50 AM UTC
Hello everyone!

This is my latest project started a few days ago. It`s a Ukrainian MBT Oplot M developed by Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building in Ukraine. It is developed from Ukraine-made T84 which is developed from Russian T80 MBT. By my opinion, it is the most beautiful tank in the world!





I will make a conversion of it from Zvezda`s kit T80 UD. First i need to completely re-shape the turret because the turret of T80 is round, and the one on the Oplot M is more like hexagon... I removed some of the details not needed and then made the needed shape out of styren sheets 0.5 mm. It is well glued and next step is to cover the turret whit tamiya putty to cover the joints and also to get a texture, and this i will do tomorrow...
These are the pictures for now...

Please comment!











Greetings from Serbia!
bison126
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Posted: Sunday, October 02, 2011 - 06:41 AM UTC
Good luck with this one. I'll follow your progress with great interest !

Olivier
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Posted: Sunday, October 02, 2011 - 06:58 AM UTC
Interesting looking build, nice work on the turret i look forward to the outcome on this build.

Mick.

Stefan94SRB
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Posted: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 - 08:43 AM UTC
Here is little update. I covered the turret with 4 layers of tamiya putty, then i sanded until i got wanted texture. And that is how you get yourself a nice new turret for your tank without buying expensive conversion sets. Its more fun this way too! Now that i have a good base, i can start building details. First, i made base for tank 360 observation optics on commanders hatch. I`ts not much, but i do small steps.








Sorry for bad pictures, my camera is just not good enough.
Please comment.
KoSprueOne
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Posted: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 - 05:12 PM UTC
very interesting project. Subscribed




Andrij
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Posted: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - 03:22 AM UTC
Hi Stefan!
Nice work. Here you are some photos ready model from one man from UA.



and link-
http://karopka.ru/community/user/7687/?MODEL=216987
I hope it will be useful.
Andrij
Stefan94SRB
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Posted: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - 07:18 AM UTC
Thx for reply Andrij.
I have all photos of this model. I studied it very well, details on it are built very very good, but, he did not corrected the turret, it is out of the box from zvezda T80, so it is round. In the start model is not accurate, a for me, something like this is a major mistake and i am sure he could have done better.
Stefan94SRB
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Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 09:35 AM UTC
A small progress... These are the tool boxes at the back of the turret. I am very pleased with the result.
Anyway, i have a little problem in terms of tracks. I used zvezdas OOB tracks for my previous build, a Serbian version of T90 so i dont have enough tracks parts for this model. I searched the on-line shopping sites and i found none spare tracks in sale for T80/T90 tanks, except some resin ones which i am not fan of, so if anyone knows where i could get these tracks, please post a link or something. I would be very grateful. Thx.

Anyway, here are the photos.








Best regards. Stefan
Spiderfrommars
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Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 10:16 AM UTC
I LOVE this kind of projects!
I'll follow for sure
jmontey
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Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 10:43 AM UTC
this is my favorite tank. it inspired me to start my build for the What if Campaign thats been happening on this site for the last few months. ill be watching this build till the day its finished. thankyou for this excellent project. check out some of my pics too if your interested. ill upload some recent ones soon(my pics are old). also have you seen pictures of the new T-90ms? its badass, but i still like the oplot the most
cagkancakir
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Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 10:49 AM UTC
Hi Stefan,

It's a great and interesting subject, one of the coolest tanks in the world today i think, i will follow your build. But i want to ask you something, why do you using Zvezda instead of more dimensionally accurate Skif?
Stefan94SRB
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Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 10:53 AM UTC
To be honest, my budget is very low, therefore my options are even lower. I had this one in my stock, so i sad what the heck.
cagkancakir
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Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 10:54 AM UTC
I almost forgot, sorry about it

As for the aftermarket T-80 tracks, you can use Masterclub, SP Designs or new metal Sector 35. I don't know they have in stock but you can buy all of them in the following link:

http://euromodelshop.ch/advanced_search_result.php?currency=EUR&keywords=t-80&sort=3a&osCsid=6aabd53a00d8839b7f239f5aed8e6199

or try this (my favourite):

http://www.hobbyeasy.com/cgi-bin/i8_user_page.cgi?a=advance_search_result&page_size=10&page_number=1&keyword=t-80&category_code=all

Stefan94SRB
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Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 10:57 AM UTC

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I almost forgot, sorry about it

As for the aftermarket T-80 tracks, you can use Masterclub, SP Designs or new metal Sector 35. I don't know they have in stock but you can buy all of them in the following link:

http://euromodelshop.ch/advanced_search_result.php?currency=EUR&keywords=t-80&sort=3a&osCsid=6aabd53a00d8839b7f239f5aed8e6199

or try this (my favourite):

http://www.hobbyeasy.com/cgi-bin/i8_user_page.cgi?a=advance_search_result&page_size=10&page_number=1&keyword=t-80&category_code=all




Thank you very much, this is what i was looking for!
cagkancakir
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Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 11:03 AM UTC
They have in stock in here:

http://www.sockelshop.de/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=73_23_77_140_141&products_id=25504

I bought SP Designs track for my T-80 BV which came today, it's a bit flashy and has broken parts but generally a good track..
Spiderfrommars
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Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 11:07 AM UTC

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Hi Stefan,

It's a great and interesting subject, one of the coolest tanks in the world today i think, i will follow your build. But i want to ask you something, why do you using Zvezda instead of more dimensionally accurate Skif?



That's true...but we have to consider that final result will be very different from the original kit
cagkancakir
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Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 11:20 AM UTC
Hi Mauro,

Zvezda's turret is one of the most inaccurate points in the kit, it is small than the original turret as i can see and as i red about under several topics in this forum.. On the other hand Oplot M's most converted and interesting point is also the turret, i hope the final result will be ok

But we have to live with it and also Stefan has to
retiredyank
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Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 11:22 AM UTC
Subscribed. You need to sell it, once you are finished. I would definitely be interested in having one of my own.
cagkancakir
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Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 11:33 AM UTC
And Stefan, there is not any plastic aftermarket track for T-80, at least i don't know about it. So you have to buy a resin one or more expensive and not proven white metal one.
Stefan94SRB
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Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 11:45 AM UTC
Thank you everyone for comments!
I will order the tracks asap, thanks Cakir!
Spiderfrommars
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Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 11:15 PM UTC

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Hi Mauro,

Zvezda's turret is one of the most inaccurate points in the kit, it is small than the original turret as i can see and as i red about under several topics in this forum.. On the other hand Oplot M's most converted and interesting point is also the turret, i hope the final result will be ok

But we have to live with it and also Stefan has to



I wonder when someone FINALLY will produce some decent T-72, t-80, t-84, t-90...
PantherF
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Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 11:26 PM UTC
This is an amazing project, just sorry I missed it from the beginning but will keep an eye on it now.


~ Jeff
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Posted: Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 12:05 AM UTC
Can't believe I didn't see this earlier. Fantastic work so far, this is shaping up to be a great build. Good luck with it Stefan.
cagkancakir
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Posted: Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 03:05 AM UTC

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I wonder when someone FINALLY will produce some decent T-72, t-80, t-84, t-90...




T-72: Tamiya's T-72 is great but maybe Trumpeter or Academy, maybe..
T-80: I don't think anyone will do it, we have to do it as we know
T-84: Stefan doing right now and i think this will inspire a lot of people
T-90: I'm very patiently waiting Zvezda's
Spiderfrommars
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Posted: Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 03:36 AM UTC
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I wonder when someone FINALLY will produce some decent T-72, t-80, t-84, t-90...




T-72: Tamiya's T-72 is great but maybe Trumpeter or Academy, maybe..
T-80: I don't think anyone will do it, we have to do it as we know
T-84: Stefan doing right now and i think this will inspire a lot of people
T-90: I'm very patiently waiting Zvezda's



Well

T-72 Tamiya depicts a quite rare german version and has some inaccuracy. Furthermore, I don't know why, is quite hard to find....I hope Trumpeter will produce a T-72 family....but I'm quite tired of waiting

T-80....why in your opinion, nobody will produce a t-80 kit? Lots of modellers actually say that they want a new T-80 tool

T-84, yes that's it

T-90 Zvezda? Mhhhhh It seems to me that they're more interested in ww2 subjects...I still hope in a Trumpeter release

Anyway....we have just to wait

Cheers

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