T34/85'started

[Spartan tracks]

Well I've had this sat around for nearly 10 months , I decided I didn't want to go to far so stripped it and cleaned it, then painted everything black and resprayed it with shadowing,and have added a few bits also painted a new name on the side instead of the stock H/L ones, Now I've started the weathering but will not go to far as don't want it to be to dark just a dirty T34

[fury]

Andy a very nice but dirty looking T34 mate, weathering is spot on as always with all of your builds.

[Ad Lav]

I like that a lot, would love to do a 76mm conversion.

[greengiant]

Very nice looking weathering job.
I wonder if using US gas cans is correct, but have no idea what type 5 gallon cans the Russians did use.

Did a little quick research and found that the Russian 10 liter jerry can was very much like the German one only a little less neatly done.

[silversurfer1947]

They could well be jerrycans, which would have been liberated from the Germans. In 1939 a German engineer gave American engineer Paul Pleiss a complete set of specification for the cans, hence the similarity.

[Spartan tracks]

There only resting on there not fitted as trying to source some Russian ones

[greengiant]

I'm sure you are correct on that . But the Russians did make their own and used them. That's why I thought the US cans looked out of place.

[silversurfer1947]

From the Wikipedia entry on Jerrycans

Russian usage[edit]
The strength of the Wehrmachtskanister was determined in the Soviet Union. Its design was later copied and the Soviet Army accepted it as the standard container for liquids. This container is still being produced and used in modern Russia. In civilian use this container is used primarily for automotive fuel and lubricants.

[greengiant]

One that I found was that although the cans look very much the same, people who have bought the Russian ones available as surplus nowadays have found that German and other spouts that are available for the typical copy of the German can will not work on the Russian manufactured cans.

[siegfried]

Which paint make and colour green did you use? Thanks.