A project long in the making. And a feature article possibly even longer in the making. We are finally proud to announce that Peter Mealing's (trackpins) article on his 1:8 scale T34-85 if finally up and ready to read.

My apologies to Peter for letting this one languish so long on the "to-do" list. After 3.5 hrs of my work we can now see his many more hours of work to re-build an RC kit into a truly amazing scale model.

From 'Backyard Toy' to Soviet T34-85

Thanks Peter!

As usual if you have comments or feedback for the author please leave it here.

Cheers,
Jim

Wow! What a truly phenomenal build, and article to boot.
Way to go Pete. It is really a one-of -a-kind! What more can I say?!

I can't wait to see that Hetzer.

All I can say is WOW Kicks the butt out of my 1/16th King tiger!

What kit was this?

Wow! That looks great! Now I'm really jealous... I wish someone manufactured and sold those.

One of the Best jobs I have seen in a long Time!
Great Build Great fellow Human!
Nice Work Peter!!

Excellent article, and an awesome build. Congrats on both!

Thank you all for your most generous and kind comments.

The tank now lives in Lulea, Sweden. About 100 miles south of the Arctic Circle. The new owner is my good friend Kent Wiik who aims to see if it runs as well in the snow as the 1:1 version did! He's in the right place for it, that's for sure!

The Hetzer build has started but in between finishing the 1:8 T34-85 and starting the Hetzer I have built a 1:6 T34-85 to the same standard.

A lot more detail and functions than the 1:8 through being 33% larger. I think this one could end up abroad as well for the right price!

I was going to submit it as an article to Jim but I think Jim needs a break from my big tanks for a while! Tell me to the contrary JIm!

Thank you all again.

Peter (Trackpins)

Hi all,

Kent Wiik here - proud and happy owner of this truly amazing T34-85.

Peter deserve every ovations for this fantastic model.
The photos simply don´t do it justice, far more realistic seen live with all those details.
Made fully R/C with smoke and sound and still not to fragile to be driven outside. Bare in mind it is made in high museum quality.

And yes, he works excellent in snow - something we have a lot of here.

Thanks again Peter,
Kent

wicked nice i wish i ahd a 1:8 scale tank (ohh the posiblities) you are a lucky person