elmarriachi Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Hello everyone, the P-40 "Longtrack"-radar of the Soviet Union in scale 1:35. This is a conversion kit of the Czech company Panzershop, consisting of resin- and 3 large frets full of huge photo etched parts. The base kit is the AT-T Artillery tractor of Trumpeter. Further details coming from Friul (metal tracks), Voyager (etched parts), MiniArt (new engine kit) and the engine cooler is a separat kit of Panzershop. First I have modified the hull, which is consisting of the trumpeter part, cut and extended with panzershop's resin parts. Added further details... Also mounted the engine cooler ... a small kit itself Cheers Micha jgrease, mywifehatesmodels and Fooesboy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fooesboy Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Nice, This caught my eye when looking at photos from Telford and I have it saved as a future purchase. I'm sure your build will tip me over the edge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmarriachi Posted December 27, 2017 Author Share Posted December 27, 2017 Hello, Some progress here .... I have replaced the engine with the much better one of MiniArt ... the transmission is trumpeter, the engine MiniArt, the cooler Panzershop. Some painting at the interior of the engine compartment. New dashboard, further details at the cab inside and outside .... First details around the engine hood .... Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmarriachi Posted December 27, 2017 Author Share Posted December 27, 2017 Cheers Michael dutik 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmarriachi Posted January 2, 2018 Author Share Posted January 2, 2018 Hi everybody, some more details at the cab and at the front .... And some first works at the super strucutre. Drilled open the two round windows and added clear plastic foil as glass. Also added the handles made of copper wire. Next - some more resin- and etched parts at the super structure, etched engine cover, antennas .... Micha Fooesboy and dutik 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmarriachi Posted January 8, 2018 Author Share Posted January 8, 2018 Hello everybody, and one more update. Most of the parts on the super structure are installed now. The radar antenna on the driver side / front is made new with brass tubes from Albion Alloys as the kit offers no extracted version. The engine hood is made of etched parts from Voyager and is fully foldable. The tracks are Friul Metal tracks, also ready for painting. The huge antenna and the jib are both made of many, many small, smallest and huge etched parts which were all soldered. A brass tube is installed in the base to keep the radar turnable. Some cables, wiring etc. will follow at the antenna, as well as some further small stuff at the car itself ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmarriachi Posted January 8, 2018 Author Share Posted January 8, 2018 Cheers Micha Out2gtcha, easixpedro, BiggTim and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Impressive sized beast! I think the Trumpeter styrene base kit makes building this now a lot easier than the previous full resin kit. But you still must be able to solder or you will never get a nice result with the PE antenna. Well done! Regards - dutik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Wow, that PE work must turn maddening at a point! Really great work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorbenD Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Ditto! Fine work indeed Torben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Griewski Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 Impressive. The radar dish put me off of this kit but if does not look too bad. Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmarriachi Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 Hi everybody ..... some pipework at the antenna added ..... mounted with tape and superglue .... Some more wiring and pipes will follow ... then I could start with the paining soon Cheers Micha TorbenD and dutik 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmarriachi Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 Hello everybody. I started the painting a little bit .... Next will be some hairspray before painting the outside of the vehicle ... and painting the details at the interior... dashboard .... Cheers Micha Jeff and BiggTim 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Whoa, Micha! This is fantaboulous! What did you use to shape this curve? Nice delicate soldering going on here. I hope the driver doesn't have engine trouble. Moving all of that gear first to then fix the problem. OOF! Great show, Micha. Thank you. Sincerely, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmarriachi Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 Hi Mark, thanks a lot! The radar was not that difficult to be honest ..... I have used some blue tac to fix one horizontal part on the huge radar and soldert it to it .... then removed the blue tax and mounted the next one .... one after the other and the shape of the radar came alone .... Cheers Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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