T-90 as a fictional IDF instruction tank
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 10:03 pm
Here a first look at a WIP.
I recently bought 2 rather expensive SOL resin figures of female IDF tankers. I already had the T-90, so my splielerish ( toy obsessed.. ) mind immediately thought of a -fictional- Tiran-9 in the guise of an instruction tank. I know, I know. Tiran only went to Tiran-6 or something, but just let me indulge myself. As with my fake Afrika Korps Bulldog, I am not really into rivet-counting. I just build what I like. Other people are far better in the rivet-counting departement.
At first I just had the figure sitting in the hatch, but then I ran into a couple of quite detailed pictures of the big, steel instructor-seats the IDF uses. And, since women are -currently- only allowed as instructors on tanks, the rest was easy.
The figure temporarily in the seat, just to see if the dimensions made sense. As of now, I only built and painted one. The next will follow if the instructor seat is complete. (By the by, antennas are 1mm (I believe) carbon fibre rod with some shrink-tube to simulate the connecting sleeves. Super strong, and already black. I Love that stuff! )
Here the figure with her leg re-attached. I -at first- had her just sitting in the hatch, wich needed some serious cutting & fitting. Hence the un-painted putty-filled leg
And here the back of the seat. For now it just rests in pins in the hatch. I have to think of some logic way to attach and support the rear.
Material is 1.5 mm styrene sheet, some aluminium and brass pipes, a very effective, hard and strong plastics glue called "Ruderer L530", and a lot of superglue.
That's it for now. Weekend is at its end, so a week of working for the money ahead. Not a whole lot of time for fiddling with my tanks, sadly.