Welcome to the first of my build threads. Like many of you the lockdown has prompted me to start one of my more serious builds.
The photos I have for you today on the build are the unboxing and the turret after it’s been worked on
Enjoy
IS3 build
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IS3 build
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- The turret. Cast wise it was quite good not much excess to take off as you can see there are some air bubble that have left holes in the bottom of the turret that will need filler but all in all not to bad
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- So the unboxing. A largely cast resin kit from mk modelbau. With printed wheel parts
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Re: IS3 build
Mk Modellbau has some exceptionally good components, and upgrade parts to choose from. You're off to a great start with those tasty looking bits
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Re: IS3 build
Looking through it all most of it won’t require that much work. However the plastic wheels will likely be discarded in favour of the Torro metal is wheels a there is little to no difference between them and the diameter of the plastics is the same as the late kv1 wheel
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Re: IS3 build
Little progress has been made on the is3 today as I have been making a suspension prototype to send to my dad to be printed for the a1.
What has been done on the is3 though is prepping the Taigen hull. I will put photos up when I do a bit more
What has been done on the is3 though is prepping the Taigen hull. I will put photos up when I do a bit more
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Re: IS3 build
Looks like a good bit of kit. One day I will do a Russian tank - maybe a T34/76.
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I really need to do some more to this tank but I lost the go at the min
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Re: IS3 build
So the progress
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- Finally the mammoth task of removing the excess. I started this with the trusty dremmel but as progress was a little slow swapped to the more heavy handed approach of hammer and chisel. Now it’s getting somewhere
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- The turret base now has its hole cut out and is ready to have some strengthening plasticard added around the screw points
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- Cleaning up the turret. This wasn’t to bad. Wasn’t much to trim off
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- Prepping of the tub
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