Cold War tanks, pre-89?

[Lucky13]

That is some seriously cool builds!
Thanks for sharing my friend....
Think that I'll stick with good old styrene etc. for now and leave that, for professionals like yourself....

 

[Wurger]

My pleasure Pal.
THX.

 

[Lucky13]

This new 1/35 T-55A by Panda, certainly looks interesting....

 

[Wurger]

 

[Lucky13]

Maintenance and cleaning spots?

 

[Wurger]

Possible both of them. Judging by the uniforms I can see I would say it might be a kind of a panzer-show or an exibition in an unit.

 

[Lucky13]

Looking at:

....and:

....plus any other that might pop up, what roadwheels should these have, Spiderweb or Starfish, I know....fancy names, or could they've been mixed?

I also found this from DEF Models....

For what I understand, the T-54A used the D-10TG main gun with the Gorizont vertical plane gun stabilization system, question is....is, was, there any external differences between the D-10T and the D-10TG gun?

 

[Lucky13]

Came across this....

....Question is if it's any good!

 

[Wurger]

As memo serves tthe only external difference between the D-10T and the D-10TG was the bore evacuator system ( fume extractor ) at the barrel tip. See pics below.

T-54 with the D-10T gun..

T-54A with the D-10TG gun...

T-54B with the D-10T2S gun..

 

[Lucky13]

I see that the 5213 and 7113 don't have the searchlights, was it just certain ones that got them, or could they've been added later, while in for maintenance?

 

[Wurger]

By the searchlights you mean the night-vision device don't you? The early T-54 didn't have the one fixed. It was started being attached with the T-54A. The kind of devices was used in night operations only and could be dismounted for the day ones. However many of the eaarly T-54 was upgraded to the T-54A varinat. But the main reason for being or not attached, is the kind of operations the tanks were going to participate.

 

[Lucky13]

Aye, seem to be a large and two smaller ones on 7110....one of the smaller looks darker, which I imagine is the infrared one, or?

 

[Lucky13]

Another firm with interesting stuff! MINIARM - High quality cast product

 

[Wurger]

And here you have the searchlight /IR systems...

The main one was called the Ł-2G Łuna and the second for the tank commander... OU-3.

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Lucky13]

Just found and joined two research groups on Facebook, one for the T-54/55 and one for the T-62/64....

 

[Lucky13]

Found these....

http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=SquawkBox&file=index&req=viewtopic&topic_id=231039&page= (Early Tiran 4 WIP)

Armorama :: VT-55 Recovery Vehicle

Armorama :: T55 Enigma

 

[Wurger]

These models look great but actually not too much of the origin plastic has been remained.

 

[Lucky13]

True that my friend!

 

[Lucky13]

Soooo tempting....it's a '13' in there too, an East German 2613!



.....and this one!

....Think I've been bitten by a slight Warsaw Pact bug!