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Hi Sev welcome to the forum nice to see another jt on the site looks good.
Stevie

Thanks for the welcome, Stevie. JT is a work in process, should be ready to start paint next month late. He is a monster, very heavy, and he will has a very strong motive system I developed some years ago. My tanks are fighters, so while detail is not too bad, I don't go all out for that. Good reliable running and roughly scale off road speed it what I shoot for.
Sev

Welcome onboard Sev  I must say that your JT looks amazing already. Look forward to see the finished project.

Must also say that I am impressed  My wife wouldn't buy a rc panzer for herself - how on earth did you manage to have your wife being interested in the (typically) mens hobby.

cheers
Steen

Thanks, Steen. With all the work going on with the house and grounds this summer, the JT has taken a temporary back seat, as has the JP and the Panther. When fall arrives, he is first in line for paint and final finishing.
Wife knew of my hobby for some time before we decided to marry 3 years ago. She had seen photos and such, and just liked them. She is also what we would call an "army brat", born and raised while her father was serving, so she has seen military equipment all her life. When she first actually saw one of my tanks, all of which I sent here when I moved, she decided she had a new hobby. She immediately laid claim to my captured German T34 and changed it back to Russian. She also has a captured Panther in winter cammo. She is a pretty good driver, and when the mood strikes her she, like most women, can be a vicious fighter, no mercy to the enemy.
It does make it easier when you and your wife share a hobby. She is also a history nut like I am, so there is a lot of common ground. However, educating her away for the standard Soviet propaganda and "history" she was taught all her life is interesting also. Quite often the books come out to prove a point or two about real history as opposed to  "sov" history.

LOL 

I just finished a book "Moscow 1941" about the period just before the germans attacked towards Moscow until the spring of 1942, where the threat was over. Quite a interesting reading about both the Stalin reactions as well as the consequenses of his decisions during that period.

cheers
Steen

Yes, that was a quite interesting time looking back. Some of the archives have been opened up, but in actuality very few compared to what is there.
The history of this area is also interesting. Of course war is not new to the peninsula, and I can't get in to a long discourse about the history of just Sevastopol, which was founded by the Greeks 2500 years ago and was originally named Chersoness. The last war was a double tragedy here. After the Germans evacuated the peninsula (regardless of the Soviet propaganda that they drove the Germans out), Stalin in less than a week had all the Tatari rounded up and deported, over 200000 of them, his reasoning being they cooperated with the Germans in the occupation.
That has lead to problems today, 65 years after, as the Tatari have been coming back for 15 year now, and trying to reclaim "their" lands etc. There have been some ugly confrontations. However, if you follow their line of reasoning in that some of the land was theirs before the war, why not go back to the Greeks, whose cities and towns were destroyed by the Mongols and the peninsula given to the Tatari tribe to rule as a semi independent Khanate centuries ago? Give the peninsula to the Greeks, as they were the first "civilized" people here.
It never ends, but life here goes on, pretty peaceful and calm for the most part.