After doing a considered look into just what makes a T34/85 what it is, there are so many idiosyncrasies & differences that are normally overlooked when peering at the masses of '85's in black & white pictures.
The turrets are different between versions, wheel hole patterns, hatch designs, ventilator positions, lifting hook style & placement, pistol ports,periscope design & position,gun & mantlet type,vision slits....................so many more
These things are built like dumb tractors, but due to the pressures of manufacture & urgency, they actually took on many variations & improvements on the fly which often go unnoticed.
I put them in a similar vein to Shermans and StuG's.
The weather here has been quintessentially a New Zealand winter, actual cold, actual rain, and actual need to wear a hoodie & ugg boots for the first time since Ive been here
So not a chance of painting in the dark like normal this time of year.
Hopefully over the weekend I can get the roadwheels painted.
If I can get them painted & fitted, then the alluring coat of hairspray will go on & then I will grab the hairy stick & do the whitewash.
I have thought to do a rough Soviet star on the turret, hand painted will be good enough like the real ones, to have the whitewash missed in a patch around it, but getting the right look or markings for the unit is proving tougher than I hoped.
), and back into the winter long johns. 
