Well, not quite, but it is an old russian lady who shows off her innermost :-)

It is the Trumpeteer 1:16 T34/76 mod. 42, a absolutely great kit, with virtually no limit to the possible refinement trough scratsbuilding.

Thanks to Sgirty, Colo_artist, Major Problem, Mahoon, and many more from this topic: https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/31779&page=1

There is more pics in my gallery

Now, put on ac/dc "the jack" and lets get started.



Here she is dressed:


From behind - wide body

Nice job !

I really like the big stuff !!
One of these days I'll continue my 1:15 M113.

cheers,
Marc

Hi

Another super job!! Just the motivation I need to start mine!! Thank you !!!

Tom

Hi Congratulations!!!!!!!!! are very much in order here. Magnificent job! You've really done some outstanding work on this big baby! I really like how you've done the weathering here too. Not too much, but just enough to show plenty of wear and tear here and there. Also like the idea of not adding the extra square tanks to the back end, as this tends to give the vehicle a different look about it.

The amount of work necessary to build a kit, esp. one with an interior to it, no matter what the scale is, and whether it comes with the kit or is made up of after market items or is scratch-built, is truly a mind-boggling project to do. And once it's finished, esp. when it turns out as nicely as yours has, is a project worthy of a very large amount of pride and respect, for both to the kit and esp. it's builder. You've done Trumpeter proud!

A toast is in order,

Take care, Larry

Great job MrMox. I agree you did find a perfect balance of weathering the model. The exterior pics are hard to tell from pics of the real thing.

I'm especially struck by the incredible work you did on the engine panels. I see you not only opened up the tops of the shock towers, but reproduced the plates at their top.

Cheers!

Karl

Wow, the finish on your model is great! Really nice job! The rust on the exhaust looks awesome.

Excellent job Jan. I really like it and will steal some of your ideas for mine. I have the engine deck removed and am ready to preceed from there, but I keep getting sidetracked.
Super fine modeling on your part.
Chuck (who will post finished pics of his T-34 before the end of the decade, probably. )

Hi Jan...

Awesome pics man!! Specially the one of the gearbox compartment looks great. I'm still working on mine, but since I0m at a seven week course, the modelling is at a very low pace.
When I see pics like yours, it makes me to start building on this beauty again!

Keep up the good work, John.

Whoa! Very nice! I can see you put out a large effort in building this

Thanks alot mates, its funny about this thingie, I thought it was finished a week ago, but then I saw what Major Problem had done to his suspensiontowers and I thought "so ein ding muss ich auch haben..."

So Chuck - steal away, after all the original is 65 yrs old, mine is just a pale copy :-)

Larry, I didn´t want it to look too beaten up, basically I love the shape of this ting, thats why I left off the fueltanks since they look ugly to me. :-)

Finished ... well, there are those lines to the airtanks, and the wiring on the radios, and the rubberfloor, and personal equipment and .... I´m not sure it will ever be finished...

wow...very impressive

at first i thought it was the real thing especially those interior photos..........cant tell it's real or not

nice weathering job!! i almost believe that engine and the breech block were the real stuff!!

i haven't got to look at the model myself but just to ask are those interior part are from the kit?

excellent job MrMox!

Jan,

Your T-34 looks absolutely outstanding!!!! - I've been looking forward to see this one finished!
Great job on the interior and the enginecompartment!!!

Godt arbejde... Den skal jeg da lige se lidt naermere paa hvis jeg kommer til Esbjerg!

Bjoern

Silantra, and others ..

The kit comes with a full interior, but I have been adding my own touch here and there (the advantage of largescale making datailing easy :-) )

1) the kit lacks one of the ammoboxes, i made an open one to show off the ammo in storage.

2) enginedeck is normally integrated in the uppe hull, I cut it off and made it detachable.

3) suspensionstowers are closed at the top, they were reworked and the support for the enginedeck added.

4) rear hull/transmission cover, was made openable - I see now that I forgot to drill out the holes for fastening the cover.

5) the turrethatch is made workable.

6) on some tanks there is a padded area over the drivers hatchs, I´v added that too.

7) wiring and hoses here and there.

8) other things I cant remember

Still, I´m not sure that I won´t find other things that need detailng

Buy it ! its the most revarding kit I have ever built!

Sweet
I still love the texture and colour of the exhausts and engine area......happy to see some influence from the suspension tops also :-)

BUT!!.....What happened to the cryllic lettering?.....I thought you posted a pic of the turret with lettering you had done?

Carl

Well, Carl, I didn´t really like it, so ....

Just ordered the Dragon 1:35 Su85m ..... guess what

Hi Jan

Aaaa! A Russian beauty. Impressive work. Congrats on a job extremeley well executed.

Fan... godt gået. Meget imponerende.

Na Zdorovje

WOW!!! She sure is a pretty lady...

Awsome job weathering in that interior.. You've hit a Home Run here!

it looks like an abdominal surgery more than a striptease. great job.congrats Jan

Hi to all, I've read almost everything in the forum on this new T34 but still wanting to hear about pitfalls during construction. In particular, are the shocker shafts slightly short, looking for any info on trouble shooting during construction. Appreciate any replies.

Hi Tanksagain,

Its pretty easy, no worse than the avarage 1:35 kit, only bigger and with more parts.

Very straightforward!

Thanks Jan, I've just begun the awesome task, am enjoying it so far, no real troubles but I just thought the plastic shocker rod maybe short and when fitting inside spring may miss the opening. To overcome I added a small plastic tube 2mm extension. You did fantastic work on yours, and hope mine can come somewhere close. Heres hoping.

Definitely an impressive job. Excellent weathering too.

Beautiful job on a beautiful tank!! I really like your weathering. I want to build that kit to!!

Looks great! I'm waiting foe my T 34/85 to come in the mail! You've got me all excited! Can't wait for mine to get here!

Just a little footnote, the tank recieved a 3.rd this weekend at a local hobbyshow.