New member from Krim

[sevoblast]

Well, the cat's out of the bag, so I'll introduce myself. I'm Bob, aka Sevoblast. Joined a few days ago. My wife and I are avid tankers, and some of you will also know me as the owner of Etoarmour.com. We live in Sevastopol, Krimea, but my business is in USA, run from here. All hail the internet!
Anyhow, we have been working on getting tanking started in this area. In Kiev, there is a pretty good crowd of them, and Odessa, but not much here yet. We have done several exibitions and displays in City Centre last summer and fall, and one earlier this spring. Hopefully the seeds are planted.
We battle different here. Apples are lowered for more cosmetic appeal. All tanks are set to "light" except Tiger 1 and Peshing, which are set to "medium". King and Jagdtiger are set to heavy, and JT has IFA, Invulnerable Front Armor. JT is undergoing a ground up resto with lots of added details. He should be ready to go back to the front in late summer. Tank speeds are generally set to the listed Off Road speed.
My wife, aka VCO, has a T34 85 with all Tam electronics, and a Russian Panther. She is turning in to quite the vicious little battler. Still teaching her, but she's a good student, sometimes too good. Of course, in the exibitions, we generally let the Russians win the battle, to the cheers of the crowd, The number of vets here, however, is still quite large, and many will comment as to the realistic sounds and tactics. Some of them have some interesting information, too. For instance, we are actively hunting a rare late war Russian tank, supposedly on a plinth in one of the many military konzerns here. Eventually I will find it and get permission to go on base and photo it. The old boy was pretty adamant that he knew what he saw some 30 years ago. I hope he's correct. When I find it I'll post photos here amongst other places.
Sev

[grompix]

Hi Bob.

Welcome to the forum. Really good to see you here mate.

Cheers
Chris 

[Rivetcounter]

Nice to see you on hear Sev

[tankman]

Hello and welcome to the forum.
Alan

[Matdragon]

hi sev nice tanks, escpecially like the JT cant wait to see it after you upgrade it ,

cheers and welcome to the forum!

Matt

[BIGMIG]

Hi Bob,Just a friendly Hello and welcome aboard---------

                      BIGMIG 

[vonrundstedt]

Welcome along, cheers, Luke

[sevoblast]

Thanks for the friendly welcome, gentlemen. I like the ambiance here, friendly and calm.
Here's a pic or two of the Jagdtiger. I had a Wecohe kit laying around in the attic, so decided to replace the scratched upper hull systems with the Wecohe hull. It's a beast to work with. This upper hull was actually assembled by a Master in USA some years ago. He will be ready for paint in fall, and he will get the same very dark finish. I know it's not prototypical, but when he makes his appearance at exibitions here, the overriding comment is "menacing". Vco made the same comment when she first saw him, so "Menacing" he will be.

[bowlman]

Say Bob nice to see you here you still getting the Tamiya KV-1 for the wife .

Jimmy

[sevoblast]

Jimmy, I mentioned it the other day to the vco, teasing her that we just could not afford it right now. Hmmmm. Those pretty brown Turkoman eyes got real small, and a short and rapid discouse in Russian followed, only understood a few words of it, but death, dismemberment, and something about ears and braiding was in there, so I think if I want to continue to enjoy life as I know it vco will get her KV. 
Daryl and I are already working on some things for it, and he is just waiting his to finalize the fit and design. From what I've heard KV will be a winner. Hope so, as I'm getting tired of killing T34's with my Tiger.