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Russain tank riders Dio
Yeti01012001
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Posted: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 04:15 PM UTC
Small Russian dio thats lying around in my cupbaord. Tank is form Zvezda and the troops as you all know are from Tamiya. Any comments and advice welcome to enable me to improve.
















Prato
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Posted: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 04:29 PM UTC
It looks like a crowdy little dio! But a great job!
Cheers and happy modelling!
Prato
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Posted: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 04:34 PM UTC
Agreed with Prato, but positively! Love the way that sooo many figs are crammed in the small area; something different methinks!
NOt sure there would be so much snow on the running gear though- looks as though the tank has been stationary for a while?
Cheers
Brad
P.S. In a word, the dio looks COLD
Gunny
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Posted: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 04:39 PM UTC
Looks great, Gary!
I love Soviet armor, personally, and really enjoy to look at others' ideas! I like what you've done here, alot of action going on atop this beast! Only thing is I also feel that the running gear is packed a bit much with snow (unless the idea that you were trying to portray was that the tank had been sitting idle and has just begun to lumber ahead). Good show, mate, take this one out of the cupboard and put 'er on display!
Gunny
Yeti01012001
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Posted: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 04:46 PM UTC

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Agreed with Prato, but positively! Love the way that sooo many figs are crammed in the small area; something different methinks!
NOt sure there would be so much snow on the running gear though- looks as though the tank has been stationary for a while?
Cheers
Brad
P.S. In a word, the dio looks COLD



Without sounding thick was is a running gear???
Gunny
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Posted: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 05:00 PM UTC
Not thick at all, my friend...the running gear would be the propulsion system, ie: the bogeys, idler wheels, treads, what makes this baby crawl, ya know?
Gunny
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Posted: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 05:14 PM UTC
So much action in a little dio, congrats and thanks for sharing..
Simon
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Posted: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 12:25 AM UTC
A fine little dio with a lot of things going on.
madspaniard
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Posted: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 12:37 AM UTC
The dio for me is great,just like in real war time

Good work
Pedro
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Posted: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 02:57 AM UTC
I really like the overall setting of the dio very much! I´ve thought about doing something like that my self some times. And yes, crowded is nice! :-) The pictures are not perfect so it´s hard to comment any detail, but overall it´s very nice! Btw, how are those figs? Are they worth buying?
Cheers Andreas
05Sultan
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Posted: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 03:13 AM UTC
"The dio for me is great,just like in real war time"
Thankyou Pedro!My sentiments exactly.As above,the only thing that doesn't work in the scene is the snow in the running gear.How was building the Zvezda T34/85 kit?Awesome dio,mate!;)
cheers!
KFMagee
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Posted: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 06:34 AM UTC
Bravo... excellent weathering and aging of the '34. As for the Tamiya figures, well done as well.

As for the sheer population, I have seen many photos of more than a dozen russians (and germans!) riding on the back of a tank - so I don't think it is unrealistic to have so many figures.

KFMagee
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Posted: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 01:06 PM UTC
It looks great
Yeti01012001
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Posted: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 02:24 PM UTC

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I really like the overall setting of the dio very much! I´ve thought about doing something like that my self some times. And yes, crowded is nice! :-) The pictures are not perfect so it´s hard to comment any detail, but overall it´s very nice! Btw, how are those figs? Are they worth buying?
Cheers Andreas



The Russain figures, they are probably one of the best tamiya have done figure wise and I probably will buy some more in the future
Yeti01012001
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Posted: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 02:28 PM UTC

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"The dio for me is great,just like in real war time"
Thankyou Pedro!My sentiments exactly.As above,the only thing that doesn't work in the scene is the snow in the running gear.How was building the Zvezda T34/85 kit?Awesome dio,mate!;)
cheers!



The Zvezda tank was very cheap to buy and very easy to put together, so it is ideal for modelers just starting out. A few bits needing a little filling, but overall it was not too bad.
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