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[43rdRecceReg]

Welcome to the Forum. Your Mancave betrays all the classical signs of modelling mania, and the battered and bruised T34 just confirms it. We will look forward to the T34s progress in pics, as well as the fleet of additions that will almost certainly follow on from it.

[Raminator]

Off to a great start, you've done a fantastic job with the battle damage and streaking/weathering.

The Heng Long T-34's a pretty damn good runner straight out of the box, and it looks the part too. The only problem it has is that the road wheels sit too low; ideally, the tops of the idler, road wheels and sprockets should be in a more or less straight line.

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You just need some small spacers to sit at the bottom of the suspension arm slots to limit their travel by a few millimetres or so. Herman used brass tube in his (you can see it here), but anything will do. It's an easy fix and really emphasises the T-34 that low, mean silhouette.

[woolenspark]

i seen in another post styrene was used. I definetly think it needs to be lowered a bit. thanks for the link to the other post i will check that out

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[forgebear]

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[woolenspark]

With a piece of sprue from a Stuka it seems to be at about the right height. I think.

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[c.rainford73]

Mr Woolen it's vastly improved

[43rdRecceReg]

Here's a working T34/85 that came to visit the Highlands last May. It even fired the cannon, and deafened all the local seagulls....

T34 Scotland 2017

Click to enlarge!
Here's one I snapped in the Swiss Military Museum back in 2016. Getting full profile shots is not always easy, unfortunately...

T34 Swiss Military Museum

They may help a bit..if only with a bit of image variety

[woolenspark]

Hmmm. What about drilling different holes for the spring. You would still have room for droop then.

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[woolenspark]

Nice. Now i have to put a log on it to.


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[woolenspark]

Much better. Drilled a hole staight across from the top hole. Next question. Will the slack cause an issue running?

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