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Polish T-55's
T-55A
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Texas, United States
Joined: February 23, 2003
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Posted: Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 06:36 AM UTC
What about the T-55's
I was thinking about doing one of the Polish versions with the new Tamiya kit

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MichalBT
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Województwo Kieleckie, Poland
Joined: July 03, 2002
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Posted: Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 07:52 AM UTC
Hi Billy,

Building Polish T-55 is a great idea :-) If you need photos or information- let me know and I will try to help you.

Regards,

Michal
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Joined: July 21, 2002
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Posted: Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 08:04 AM UTC
I built mine out of the box, as a Polish AAmg armed version (option D) Dec 28-31 after recieveing it straight from Hobby Link Japan.
Since then I read on Missing Links Modern DG that the engine deck vents (D8 anbd maybe D7 ) are the wrong shape for export versions.
I'm not sure of the exact date, but there was a poster there who had images and diagrams of the 'correct' deck vent with a bit more of a key shape to it.

Am I terribly worried, nope! I'm bleepin happy to have a Tamiya T55!

So go look there or just build the gem out of the box and love it.

I suppose you could replace the mesh with metal mesh, add the pannier tank plumbing, some wiring to the lights, a turret vent, ,but all in all it's a GREAT kit

Mike
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