Hi;

I have both SBS, & Miniarm Turrets in my collection; And while SBS are nice, I have to say Miniarm is slightly better.
As for A T-44 with RMSH type tracks, it would not be Accurate, as OMSH would be more in-line with A T-44.

CHEERS; MIKE.

T-44M tracks are the same type used on the T-54 1949's. T-72 tracks are similar, but not the same track.

I too am hoping someone does a Ural.

Fruil makes tracks for the T-54 1949. As I recall, the normal T-44 used T-34 tracks.

I don't think the Urals had the B hull, however there are people here with more knowledge than I have.

Didn't Trumpeter threaten to make the Ural? Or was that one of those rumors.

I did a search on E-Bay for T-72 Ural and came up with a number of Ural turrets from two or three resin suppliers. Given the cost of the models, the cost of the turrets and the cost of the hull conversions I'm going to wait and see what Trumpeter does. I hip deep in a bunch of T-34's at the moment, so I have plenty to keep me busy for a long while.

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I did a search on E-Bay for T-72 Ural and came up with a number of Ural turrets from two or three resin suppliers. Given the cost of the models, the cost of the turrets and the cost of the hull conversions I'm going to wait and see what Trumpeter does. I hip deep in a bunch of T-34's at the moment, so I have plenty to keep me busy for a long while.

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got miniarm's ural turret, verlinden upper hull and tam's T72 on the way. wasn't cheap either, and there's no guarantee ANYone'll come out with an early T72 and no bloody A, B, C or D

Hi Everybody;

As for the Ural Conversion; Stay away from the Verlinden upper hull, as its just A copy of the DML kit ! IMHO, It would be wise and try to source A conversion of the hull made in resin by JDs friend at SP Design using the Tamiya kit; Or just grind away the Extra Armor on the Hull front, both of which I have done. And there were T-72s Urals that were rebuilds that had the extra armor added to the hull front. As for the T-44; The Only Accurate T-44 would be A T-44 with Late T-34 style or OMSH type tracks !!!!!

CHEERS; MIKE.

why would it matter if the upper hull was in pieces. isn't the rest of a model in a similar state? pix

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why would it matter if the upper hull was in pieces. isn't the rest of a model in a similar state? pix

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Hopefully, you are only being sarcastic or have a lot of experience working with resin. If not, I would highly recommend using/making a jig for gluing together parts 11, 21, 15, 16 and 17. Although the conversion nearly falls together, there is a lot of room for misalignment.

I think you are of out of luck with regards to the Miniarm T-72 turret ring, which diameter is about 0.016" larger than the Verlinden's inner diameter (as on the conversion that I have). There is a marked circle on the Verlinden's part that you can use to make the turret hole bigger close to what you need for the Miniarm turret ring to fit.

Modelpoint did an Ural turret a few years ago.
Don't know if it's still available...
About Verlinden's kit, I believe there were 2 versions of this resin set and the latter one had the engine grill corrected.