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Armor/AFV: Modern Armor
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Russian AAA
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Kildare, Ireland
Joined: November 21, 2007
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Posted: Saturday, August 12, 2017 - 06:29 PM UTC
Don't know why I decided on such madness but I'm building 4 modern Russian anti-aircraft systems in parallel. The kits are:
Meng Shilka - beautiful kit with workable tracks but clean-up of the spruce attachments on each link has to be exact for them to connect.
Trumpeter SAM-6 - simple kit, nice missiles. Link&length tracks though. Not a fan of them from when I build one years ago. Will replace these.
Panda Tunguska - horrible kit. POOR fit of parts and really overdone with tiny bits. Non workable individual link tracks. Might replace these too
Panda TOR - such an improvement over the Tunguska. Very detailed radar that went together very well. Also has individual workable tracks

 Soviet AAA

 Soviet AAA


Currently on the process of priming them all. Each will get a different colour scheme just undecided on which ones yet....
Nito74
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Lisboa, Portugal
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Posted: Saturday, August 12, 2017 - 10:08 PM UTC
Great work so far Sean !!
dping them at the same time is even more impressive.

don'r forget to show us the finished builds !!!
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Posted: Saturday, August 12, 2017 - 10:37 PM UTC
If they get finished you will get to see them......sorry, I mean "when", just don't be in a rush 😁
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Posted: Sunday, August 13, 2017 - 12:51 AM UTC
I understand..
grunt136mike
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Joined: November 24, 2012
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Posted: Sunday, August 13, 2017 - 12:58 AM UTC
Hi;

"YEA"---Nice kit's; And I like your Work Station Too !!!!!

CHEERS; MIKE.
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Posted: Sunday, August 13, 2017 - 01:58 AM UTC
Thanks Mike.....it got cleaned up for the photo. Plus building 4 together I need to be a bit better organised than normal 😁
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Posted: Friday, August 18, 2017 - 03:27 AM UTC
I got both sets of Meng/AK paints for Modern Russian Armour and I have to say they do spray very nicely.

 Russian AAA

All 4 vehicles have now got their base colour. I'm using the schemes in the Meng Shilka booklet for 3 of them. It may not be 100% accurate but they look good and that's good enough for me.

 Russian AAA

 Russian AAA

 Russian AAA

The Tunguska will get an Artic scheme with black and grey stripes

 Russian AAA

I hope to get a good bit of the camo painting done over this weekend
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