T-34 XL

[sotoolslinger]

That is some seriously cool scratchin right there

[chrisonord]

Here is some more pictures for you, I need to move some of the ERA about and put another fuel barrel rack on, and replace the hatch lever that fell off, then sand the finger marks out of the side skirts, I think I will leave these as is, mainly cos I ran out of the stuff I used to make the ERA 
But never mind, and I have put the other barrel I made in the pics also, the pics are not that good as I had to take them inside as it is blowing a gale here.
Cheers,
Chris.

[McGreig]

Wow! Don't know much about armour, but that's some serious conversion work  Impressive (and mean looking) model.

[chrisonord]

Thanks for the compliments gentlemen, much appreciated
Tonights instalment of work has involved a bit of rearrangement of stuff and an addition of a luggage rack, another fuel barrel rack, and a lazer range finder slapped on the top of the gun barrel at the turret end.
once the dust settled after that lot, I stuck the turret on and gave it a coat of khaki drab as its base colour.
I am going to paint this in a similar camo scheme to my Tunguska.
I want to take some pics of this tank when its done, with all my other Cartel Soviet armour.
Chris.     

[ChernayaAkula]

Lookin' better and better!

[chrisonord]

Here is some more pics of how the T-34/122 XL looks now.
I have been experimenting with different paint schemes, and I am not yet fully decided on what colour to do it yet, it still needs the fuel barrels putting on but I will do that when I have finished with the paint.
Cheers,
Chris

[BlackOps]

Looks great! I can just see this baby disappearing when backed into the edge of a wooded area, I like this paint scheme.

[Taiidantomcat]

Love it! Really kept that Russian look to it, absolutely genuine style!

[chrisonord]

Well I drove my self even more insane with this thing tonight. I needed some straps to hold the barrels onto the racks, so I had a root through the photo etch box and found some narrow strips of brass that looked long enough to do the job. But as ever they were about 10 mm too short, back to the drawing board
So I though never mind(ish) so then made some other brass strip I had that was about 3 mm wide so I cut it down to half the width and used this to link the other brass, as there is slots cut in to it. I glued one end of the bras strip to the tank hull and put the other end through the slot and crimped it over, then cut it down. I did it like this to represent ratchet tie down straps.
I will see if I can borrow my friends good camera to take some better close up pics of the tank, then I will post them.     

[Rafael]

Impressive!!!

The ERA blocks are awesome!!
Rafa

[chrisonord]

I am glad you like it Rafa,
Have you had a go at making some barrels yet? I hope the info I gave you was ok for you.
I have made a few more since, this time using my electric drill and some are from aluminium and I have also done one from brass, the brass one turned out much better than the ally ones, as they did not need sanding smooth. I have also made some smaller 40 ish mm calibre gun barrels also.
It is a lot cheaper and more fun than buying ready made ones.
Chris.

[Captain Canada]

Beauty ! Try turning more lights on when you take the pics...the people are missing out on all the details !

[chrisonord]

I took the pictures outside.

[sotoolslinger]

Great looking build  :thumbsup:Do need some better pics.

[NARSES2]

I took the pictures outside.

You do live in the rain capital of England Chris