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What's a good kit of the T34??
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Posted: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 09:49 PM UTC


Evening All...

can anyone recommend a decent kit of a T34, I have had a look around the net and there are quite a lot to choose from any recommendations????...

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Posted: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 10:16 PM UTC
Certainly not the Maquette T-34/85...

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Posted: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 10:18 PM UTC
What period? The early (1940/41) Dragon kits are v good and the Dragon T-34-85 are older but decent. The later 76mm Dragon kits have a strange series of changes compared to the earlier T-34-85 releases (things which were correct were actually made worse, like the glacis hatch location) and the Dragon etch frequently doesn't fit. PMMS has a good series of reviews and among online posters, I find Mark Rethoret to be pretty sound. He's put up quite a bit of material over the years.

Can't comment on other manufacturers as almost all my T-34s are Dragon from a few years ago. Zvezda does one with mine roller but that's the only part I plan to use.

3D Zavod on Shapeways makes some excellent air intakes which look far more like the real thing than most kit parts or the flat etched affairs.
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