Trumpeter 1/35 BTM-3 High Speed Trench Digger

[outrunner]

You are making an excellent job of this Dave, makes me worry about building mine. I found a few pictures of one build where the guy fitted the chains, 7 bits of chain on each bucket. :surprised:

Andy.

[Valeron]

Looks amazing. Looks like a mass of complexity to me but for a man of your skills, its coming on nicely.

Mike

[Airborne01]

This is superb Dave - you've definitely got masochistic tendencies!
Steve

[Dave Ward]

Coming onto the final straight now....................

Windscreen masked for the wipers - I've done a general dirty wash & and picked out metallic bits on bearing surfaces. Next will be an overall thin coat of varnish, clear at first, then a dust tinted graded coat & finally local areas of heavier dust.
No more pictures in this thread - They will be appearing in the ( finally ) completed section.........
Dave

[Dave Ward]

I wasn't intending to post another picture here, but I couldn't resist this

From Trumpeter (1/35 ) - Using a similar chassis as the BTM-3 ( but with more wheels ) - The Long Track S-band Acquisition Radar. This has 880 parts ( and some of the largest pieces of PE I've seen ), but comes in at around the £120+ mark - not something you see every day!
Dave

[Airborne01]

Not my part of ship but, nevertheless, an incredible model! Beyond my PE capabilities that's for sure!
Steve

[adt70hk]

Coming on very, very nicely indeed Dave.

As for that other kit, Hauler do a 1/72 kit of one of those massive WÜRZBURG-RIESE radar stations. The PE is on a very similar level to that.

Keep up the great work.

ATB.

Andrew

[Guest]

As for that other kit, Hauler do a 1/72 kit of one of those massive WÜRZBURG-RIESE radar stations.

Only €91.65 … but best of all, you don’t even need to make that one military. If you prefer astronomy as your subject of choice in modelling, it’ll work for that fine as well.

[adt70hk]

Only €91.65 … but best of all, you don’t even need to make that one military. If you prefer astronomy as your subject of choice in modelling, it’ll work for that fine as well.

Errrrr.... NOPE!

[Gern]

You are making an excellent job of this Dave, makes me worry about building mine. I found a few pictures of one build where the guy fitted the chains, 7 bits of chain on each bucket. :surprised:

Andy.

Any chance you could post a link to that site Andy?

PS No disrespect intended towards your excellent build Dave!

[outrunner]

Here you go Dave, I made a mistake in my post as there are actually 8 bits of chain per bucket!

https://imodeler.com/2020/06/%D0%B1%D1%82%D0%BC-3%D0%BC/

Andy.

[Gern]

Here you go Dave, I made a mistake in my post as there are actually 8 bits of chain per bucket!
https://imodeler.com/2020/06/бтм-3м/

Andy.

Ouch! I can't see me being able to cope with all that fiddly stuff even though it looks easy enough to count the number of links per chain and fit with CA.

[Allen Dewire]

I've been quietly sitting back and watching you do your magic Dave. I must say this thing is wonderful and you have made a fantastic job of it. May I ask what paint you used for the Russian green? AK 3G? It's so matt and looks really good...

Prost
Allen

[Dave Ward]

PS No disrespect intended towards your excellent build Dave!

None taken!! :tongue-out:

Dave

[Dave Ward]

May I ask what paint you used for the Russian green?

I used AK - 4135 Base Green ( protective ) - it was a part of an AK set for Cold War Soviet Tanks - It is very little different from 4BO, or Russian Green - by the time you add weathering, you can't tell the difference! It was in my paint box & came to hand first!
Dave