hello gentlemen
this is my first topic here, i hope i'm posting in correct section...
tamiya t55 from balkans.. looks serb-ish but i didn't add any signs or anything to specify it's origins
nothing fancy, more amaterish.. hope you like it






and small change after last photo session..

I wouldn't say 'amaturish', Richard; it looks fantastic. What did you do for the 'rubber' armor? Looks like sandpaper doubled over on itself?

thank you... well revell enames + clay = amaterish for me =)
rubber is made out of my old note book that had plastic outer pages.. pretty soft like rubber but still fights like plastic when twisting

"Do it Yourself" rubber armour is impressive. Love these home made solutions.

Great work on the armor. You may want to venture into filters. I'm not sure about the Confederate flag?

thank you, well it's more "do it for minimum expence" armor
venture in to filters? what does that mean?
confederation flag is quite common here on balkan

Richard, I know what you're talking about. I salvaged some of that stuff from an old binder I had as well.

cool i made some fenders and exhaust covers for 1/48 tiger out of tin can.. better than spending moneyz for PE

Yeah a lot of people use coffee can lids for fenders. Haven't seen an exhaust cover made of foil yet though....

Very nice looking model, Kuklinski. Very interesting version of the T-55

@Tiger_213 - I did it once on my IT-28 Bridgelayer. Enables realistic damage if needed

Richard
great work love it i just finshed my t-55 you should check it out
dave

a interesting and well executed vehicle. nice work.

Agreed, very well executed, and quite interesting.

thank you all! it's an honor to get compliments on such forum full of pros
i'm still trying to figure out "venture in to filters" part

Hiya Richard, Ive seen some T-55's in pics from the Bosnian-Serb war and you've nailed the look...well done man!

Gary

Very nice build indeed, great work on the weathering.

Dan

tnx guys!
well this one was meant to be more from cro-serb war from serb occupied area called "Krajina"
i'm planing on all sides in future...
so far i've got bosnian croat T55 from Hercegovina '93 and Krajina serb T55
next are croatian '91 and '94-5 and one bosnian
oh yea.. first i need a job!

Fantastic job, Richard. I really like the "rubbber" armor sheets; I've never seen that before. It's an interesting version of the T-55. Very cool.

Chris

Richard I am not sure what filters are made from but they are applied with a brush and they help blend colors very slowly usually a few coats I use MIG productions filters I do not know if anyone else makes any hopefully this answer's your question on filters

coming from former confederate territory, I am very curious why the confederate flag is used in the Balkans - just because it was available but currently unused, or is there some other reason (Dukes of Hazard fans???)?

racism, ignorance and mostly stupidity i would say...
some think it's bad ass but 99% of them don't know what i means where it comes and so on...
mostly it was connected to football hooligans as many of them were in war,
same as shouting against England while having British flag in your club colors on your side...
doesn't make sense i know..
croatian club Hajduk from Split has to pay couple 10.000€ of penalties every year because Torcida uses that flag on stadium
they say they use it because club color is white but what does confederate flag had to do with it? they used it in Yugoslavia.. without problems...



one of Delije (serb) top boys explaining how they are going to sing some chetnik songs as provocations on derby Dinamo Zagreb - Red Star Belgrade 1990
big fight with police, derby never played few mounts after that real war started...

Beautiful work.

Very nice. Not only do I like the look of the rubber - the way it's weathered to look dusty around the edges looks spot on.

They know exactly what it stands for...

Well done model by the way What was purpose of rubber armor? Defeat RPGs? Any photos of actual tanks with it?

something like that yes, but main goal was to make you feel like you have a bigger pair of balls

not as many as we would like but some photos can be found, type: "balkan armor / oklop","srpski / hrvatski T55", "T55 guma / rubber" and so on..



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