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What tank can I use the BTU-55 Blade on?
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Posted: Monday, July 22, 2002 - 09:24 AM UTC
I mean besides the Trumpeter Finnish T-55 it comes with.

Now I have the BTU-55 dozer blade and I'd like to affix it to a kit. Anyone know what other tanks these blades were also used on? Some of the types of former Soviet tanks I have are T-62A, Type 59-B, T-55A, T-64B, T-72 and T-80. I know the T-55A is OK, how about the others?
Thanks,
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Posted: Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:41 AM UTC
Idon't know if this will help you the blade from the BTU-55 was mounted on a T-55 in Israel. Although the mounting was a bit different.You can see some good pics in Verlinden's Book on Israeli Tirans.If you don't have it I'll scan the pages for you.

Josh Weingarten
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Posted: Monday, July 22, 2002 - 01:17 PM UTC
Ahem... well even though Rob posted this question on ML first. He is still waiting on a reply there.

I just had to note that.

Jim
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Posted: Monday, July 22, 2002 - 04:36 PM UTC
Hi,

In Polish Army- for sure we used them with T-54(55). We "did" because all these type tanks were retired from our use. I saw somewhere photos of BTU-55 attached to Soviet T-62, too.
As far as I know Polish T-72 and PT-91 can use another type of dozer blade. But I will mail a guy from Bumar-Labedy tank factory to confirm it.

Michal
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Posted: Monday, July 22, 2002 - 06:43 PM UTC
Okay lets see. Here are some says not used on T-62 but latter T-67 and T-72
http://users.aol.com/mikegalope/engineer3.htm

here are some photos of the T-72 and T-62
http://community.webshots.com/album/32773414jwGXXD
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Posted: Monday, July 22, 2002 - 07:26 PM UTC
Hi,

So I will do my best by finding these photo of T-62 w/ BTU-55.

Wish me luck

Michal
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Posted: Monday, July 22, 2002 - 07:31 PM UTC

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Hi,

So I will do my best by finding these photo of T-62 w/ BTU-55.

Wish me luck

Michal


I will try also
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Posted: Monday, July 22, 2002 - 07:49 PM UTC
This site says no on self entrenching maybe a field addon.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/t62tank.htm
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Posted: Monday, July 22, 2002 - 08:09 PM UTC
Okay all this talk is getting me ready to get a T-55 who makes a good one?
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Posted: Monday, July 22, 2002 - 09:10 PM UTC

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Ahem... well even though Rob posted this question on ML first. He is still waiting on a reply there.

I just had to note that.
I felt obligated to do so since I got this nice trade from their Fleamarket Forum. Minutes later, I posted here though.
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Posted: Monday, July 22, 2002 - 09:14 PM UTC

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Ahem... well even though Rob posted this question on ML first. He is still waiting on a reply there.

I just had to note that.
I felt obligated to do so since I got this nice trade from their Fleamarket Forum. Minutes later, I posted here though.


And how did you know? were you posting something yourself?
Just Ribbing you Jim God got myself banned now.
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Posted: Monday, July 22, 2002 - 09:14 PM UTC

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Okay all this talk is getting me ready to get a T-55 who makes a good one?

There are several on the market:
1. Trumpeter makes several variants are are basically decent kits
2. Esci made one that is still out there if you look
3. Lindberg made one that was poor and OOP
4. Lee makes one that is a copy of a conglomeration of other makers' kits
5. Skif makes one that is decent, but is dogged by all T-55 experts in the know, I like it though. These same experts are still waiting for someone to make the definitive T-55 kit.
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Posted: Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:20 PM UTC

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And how did you know? were you posting something yourself?
Just Ribbing you Jim God got myself banned now.


Jeff,
Lol...no I don't "post" there. But I do cruise through occasionally to see if there are any major topics of interest.

Jim
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Posted: Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:24 PM UTC

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And how did you know? were you posting something yourself?
Just Ribbing you Jim God got myself banned now.


Jeff,
Lol...no I don't "post" there. But I do cruise through occasionally to see if there are any major topics of interest.

Jim


Yes and do you by chance visit Track-link?
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Posted: Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:26 PM UTC

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Okay all this talk is getting me ready to get a T-55 who makes a good one?

There are several on the market:
1. Trumpeter makes several variants are are basically decent kits
2. Esci made one that is still out there if you look
3. Lindberg made one that was poor and OOP
4. Lee makes one that is a copy of a conglomeration of other makers' kits
5. Skif makes one that is decent, but is dogged by all T-55 experts in the know, I like it though. These same experts are still waiting for someone to make the definitive T-55 kit.


Thanks Rob but did not Tamiya make one way back?
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Posted: Monday, July 22, 2002 - 11:00 PM UTC
Hi,

I'm still looking for this photo- but meanwhile I found information on my resin set of BTU-55 that it was sesigned for T-54 and T-62. But if I find this photo- for sure I will let you know.


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Okay all this talk is getting me ready to get a T-55 who makes a good one?

I decided to use Lee kit as a base for my T-55AM2 Merida conversion for several reasons: opinions of another modellers, outstanding Bruce Crosby's article about updating ESCI's kit and avaiability (Italian kit is not avaiable in Poland- but Lee's product is close copy of it). But for sure to buy a decent copy of this beast you will need several aftermarket sets.


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Thanks Rob but did not Tamiya make one way back?

As far as I know Tamiya's kit is OOP. Now you can buy it only as collector's product. Few years ago Dragon announced T-55. But they didn't decided to release it.

I can't understand why Mr. Tamiya doesn't want to release this item. IMHO it would be the most wanted model not only for modern armour fans.

Michal
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Posted: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 - 12:17 AM UTC

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Thanks Rob but did not Tamiya make one way back?
Yes, a very long time ago. I didn't mention it because even if you found one, most wouldn't want to build it (collectable) and the quality doesn't even come close to the worst of the five sources I listed. It has rubber band tracks (big black rubber band with some "track-looking" detail). Plus for the price of this collectable, you could probably buy each of the five I listed, an aluminum barrel and the Eduard PE that is made for the Esci kit.
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Posted: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 - 12:22 AM UTC

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I'm still looking for this photo- but meanwhile I found information on my resin set of BTU-55 that it was sesigned for T-54 and T-62. But if I find this photo- for sure I will let you know...
I can't understand why Mr. Tamiya doesn't want to release this item. IMHO it would be the most wanted model not only for modern armour fans.
Let me know when you find a good detail shot of the BTU-55 on the T-62. I want to mount this thing to an old Tamiya T-62A I have incoming.

As far as the making of a T-55 by Tamiya, give them time. It seems that every so often someone announces that they are releasing one and then the critics tear it apart. I bet when they do get around to making one, it will be on par with the Pershing and most likely will be available with optional parts for an Israel Ti-67. We can only hope.
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Posted: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 - 01:24 AM UTC

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And how did you know? were you posting something yourself?
Jim keeps track of all the links to the Armorama site I "hide" in my posts at M-L. I'm probably one of the few who can post a link to another site there and not have it removed in a couple of days. I just posted a link in the M578 thread for someone looking for detail shots. Then told him to check back often and I'd up load some for him.
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