T-90 Battlefield 2 Sytle!(MEC)

[Benjo]

Heres the pic of my MEC T-90.
Its made to be the same as the one in the game as my conversion set was lacking some things...







Not a very freindly lookin tank!

Benny

[Taiidantomcat]

Nice Tank  What game is it from?

[Just call me Ray]

It's in the title


Electronic Art's Battlefield 2. A buggy as all bloody hell game as is typical of mid-2000's EA PC products and occasionally some weird hardware driver and BIOS interaction (the Special Forces expansion cost me a fecking DVD drive) but it was still popular and fortunately EA has improved their product support since then.

[barraxr8]

Sweeeeet Benny 

What kit is that ?

I want to do the Miniarm conversion for the Tamiya T-72 kit, it's expensive though 



Paul

[Sauragnmon]

I can tell you what it isn't - that's not the ACE T-90 - the road wheels tell me that, not to mention the enhanced, defined detail on the tracks and other parts.  The tracks still look link/length in design though, being so crisp in edging and such I'd be disinclined to believe them vynil, and Dragon doesn't make a T-90 to my knowledge, putting out Dragonstyrene.

[ChernayaAkula]

Very cool!  Some shots from above?

Any other plans for vehicles from this game?  I certainly hope so! MiG-29! MiG-29!

[barraxr8]

G'day mate !

Dragon don't do a T90. In fact no one does. There are a couple of resin conversions the best one is Miniarm, who do a Turret, a hull conversion, wheels & tracks all seperately. (The turret is $US 52 and the whole lot - to convert a Tamiya T-72M1  - is about $US 200  ).

Not sure it could be a bit of scratch building to convert a T-72 kit, but I'm no expert on Russian / Soviet kits or armor.

[barraxr8]

BTW I'm assuming it's 1/35, maybe it's not 

[Sauragnmon]

the T-90 I have is in 1/72, and ACE is the only one in that scale.  It probably does involve a conversion kit, you're right.

[Benjo]

The guys that made the 3d model in the game made some mistakes, and i followed them simply because my conversion kit was lacking it much of the small detail stuff... but what they did get right was the beautiful 1 peice turret!
plus it was fun to make the game one. Its always fun to make fictional schemes.
Its the A.E.F designs conversion set. 1/35 scale. Ive tried to get some more, as the miniarm set is WAAAAYYY too expensive. as mentioned. it can cost up to $200US to complete, and that it australia could buy me 5 t-72 kits...
Well, afterter doing much research on T-90s, ive gathered these points.... hope this helps.
Some T-90s still use the old T-72 track, which is what i have done, and also what the BAttlefield 2 makers did too...
The Revell 1/35 T-72B W/EDZ is the old dragon kit, which includes the two different kinds of t-72 road wheels! inlcuding the ones that you need for your T-90! so no resin roadwheels required there... And, as your detailing it up with the t-90 bits, especially the front hull, i would choose this kit to base your T-90 on instead of the Tamiya one. Especially because you get plastic link and length tracks, which with some massaging and carefull assembly looks waaaaaay more realistic than rubber band style. its also very crisp in the detail. looks sharp once painted!
Admittedly its not as sharp as the tamiya kit though in the small stuff, but it is a great looking kit when assembled.
Some of them are actually T-72BMs. so some will still use the old big round IR light thing on the front of the turret. Should make an interesting model. they come in almost every config and variation its hard for us to know whats what when looking for good reference material...
I bought some more of the revell kits because i cant get a hold of the AEF designs conversion any more, and will have to scratch build T-7sBM's and T-90's from now on. The revell gives you the T-72B turret, which is the one you need bacuse its bigger than the normal ones. It also gives you the correct sowage boxes and placement of the breather pipe stowage. Its got the heavy armor up front of the turret, and the anti nuclear radiation sheilding up top.
These are pics of my Revel/AEF creation.

The closest i have to a top view.


building...


Having said all that, what an excellent project, the research and reading was as fun and interesting as the building.  
Benny

[cthulhu77]

Neat tank, love the in progress shot especially !

[BlackOps]

Haven't played the game but I still love what I see here! 

[sotoolslinger]

Really cool work right there

[Sisko]

Nice to see some armour and Russian at that!!!!

I like the conversion. One I'd not considered doing up till now.

[barraxr8]

I like your work Benny !

I've ordered the Miniarm stuff  I just couldn't help it, but it'll make for a great end result I think (a T-90A with the welded turret) 

Cheers

Paul