M4A2 76mm

 I have started with a project f converting M4A3 76mm Italeri into M4A2 76mm with parts from DML, whereas DML's M4A2 is being converted into M4A3 75mm from Iwo Jima (which will be the subject of another post).

I concentrated on improving Italeri by adding a texture of the armor and various bits and pieces from DML kt.

Selecting the particular vehicle to portray was hard, as Italeri gives us a turret with split hatch, and very few documented tanks were the option. I have selected theone with IS2 on the streets of Berlin.

As hatches were open, something from the inside is to be seen,so i acquired RFM Sherman with inerior instructions and started to scratchbuilt what can be seen from the ope hatches.

the floor covering ammo storages.

The upper half of turret

lower half

the gun and MG

the fire extinguisher

Puch, Serbian Armed Forces

 This is continuation of a project that inspired me to make this blog, as i started this kit in 2009. At that moment, Revell just released Puch/Mercedes G jeep, and i presumed this would be an easy conversion to make the vehicle used by Yugoslav people's Army, Yugoslav Army,Armo fo Serbia and Montenegro and lastly, Serbian armed forces. 

It was not easy.

The roof was a problem and it took several atempts to make correct one, or at least one that my conscience would accept. What i presumed to be a good roof back in the days, was later discovered to lack decent frontal slope, which i altered. I have built another roof from styrene, and used another option for instalation of windows.

After this reconstruction, the roof was installed (dryfitted as it could be said), and windows (inside and out) were protected for painting.

Initial painting

Sme correction and sanding and final instalation and paint. I used interior green FS34102 with a bit of white for scale effect.

Further work will be based on adding brown and black for camouflage...

Soviet Panther 366 Self Propelled Artillery Regiment

 This specific vehicle wascaptured by Soviet forces and used againts its previous owners in a unit composed of smilar captured vehicles. They remained in original German camouflage, but their crosses were overpainted in 4BO green (or black?),along with outer row of wheels, with large red stars painted, which inspired me to model this late G in Soviet clothes.

The old Revell 1/72 kit was a bit altered as meshes were added and side skirt's holders were scratchbuit as damaged. As with any other captured item, this one also lacks equipment, so i portrayed empty racks and tool stowages. Additional antenna mount was added as shown in the picture above.

A bit of paint job ensued

T64AK

 I have acquired T64A, a Trumpeters' first model in a series that followed. As this tank was perceived as "state of the art" at his time, it was not exported and only certain guards units were equipped with it. Until recent conflict in Ukraine, this vehicle saw no (or limited - Transistria in 1992 and Congo in 2017) combat. 

So, a lookup for pictures of this tank in Ukrainian conflict ensued, and proved to be a hard target, as the bulk of T64 were T64B and most of them used ERA blocks. Only a handful of pics revealed this early type used, and from there on i followd those pics:

The model:

Trumpeter's T64A model 1972 offered several parts needed to update the kit to represent the vehicle "Masenjka".

Add-ons included sideskirts (acquired from fellow modellers), smokegrenades (few scratchbuilt), new wires on the turret, different right sponsoon fuel compartment (from model 1981 kit, vailable in the box). Several grabhandles were rearanged on the turret, added another box and spare tracks.

work in progress: