As a Teenager I can remember the first 1/35 Tamiya kits I ever bought...
They were the BMW 750 Motorcycle and side car.. Germany infantry at rest and German Infantry Weapons... All of these are still available I think..
The kits were mind blowing to me as they were so nicely detailed. I built a few Tamiya 1/35 armour kits after that and then for years I've never been back..... Over the last year or so I have built a few 1/48 Tamiya Armour kits which are also great... I recently decided to give 1/35 a go and bought the Tamiya T-62 kit....
Like a lot of stuff i build this kit has been eclipsed by Trumpeters T-62 kits and folk seem to think the Tamiya kit has all sorts of issues with shape and lack of detail. I thought It would make the perfect base for me to embrace 1/35 armour modelling in the modern era and I spent up on after market bits for it.
I decided early on I wanted to build a Syrian example simply because they seemed to offer a more interesting colour schemes and with the unfortunate ongoing conflict in Syria the Armour in use there is very eclectic.
Here is basically where I have gotten to so far with the T-62..
I have been chipping away at it in between other builds.
I started with the base Tamiya kit and added weld beads to the hull using some stretched sprue and Tamiya Extra thin glue and a bit of 'chop chop' action from a scalpel blade.
I added some surface texture to the turret with some surfacer..
As you can see I also replaced the kit grab rails with brass wire and replaced the kit head light guard with a home made one from soldered brass wire and tube...
At this point I replaced the gun barrel with a turned Aluminium + Brass one from RB models..
After this It was onto the weathering.... more on this later...
They were the BMW 750 Motorcycle and side car.. Germany infantry at rest and German Infantry Weapons... All of these are still available I think..
The kits were mind blowing to me as they were so nicely detailed. I built a few Tamiya 1/35 armour kits after that and then for years I've never been back..... Over the last year or so I have built a few 1/48 Tamiya Armour kits which are also great... I recently decided to give 1/35 a go and bought the Tamiya T-62 kit....
Like a lot of stuff i build this kit has been eclipsed by Trumpeters T-62 kits and folk seem to think the Tamiya kit has all sorts of issues with shape and lack of detail. I thought It would make the perfect base for me to embrace 1/35 armour modelling in the modern era and I spent up on after market bits for it.
I decided early on I wanted to build a Syrian example simply because they seemed to offer a more interesting colour schemes and with the unfortunate ongoing conflict in Syria the Armour in use there is very eclectic.
Here is basically where I have gotten to so far with the T-62..
I have been chipping away at it in between other builds.
I started with the base Tamiya kit and added weld beads to the hull using some stretched sprue and Tamiya Extra thin glue and a bit of 'chop chop' action from a scalpel blade.
I added some surface texture to the turret with some surfacer..
At this point I replaced the gun barrel with a turned Aluminium + Brass one from RB models..
The kit supplied HMG on the Loaders cupola is a product of it's era and rather then replace this I made a dust cover tarp out of thinly rolled milliput to cover it up...
I also purchased a set of Fruil Model tracks and spent a few hours assembling the links and making track runs up. The Fruil tracks are great and I'd say they lift the model up a whole level in terms of detail look and weight... I was posting my progress on this build on one of the forums and some one mentioned the kit road wheels are not very good... I considered this for about a month or so and then decided to upgrade them with an inexpensive set of wheels from a Ukranian supplier.
These are resin and are aimed at the Trumpter kit but with some work fitted the Tamiya kit with no issues...
After this it was onto paint I used some Ammo Colours which TBH I disliked as I'm used to working with Gunze and Tamiya. I freehanded the camo scheme and went with a tricolour scheme.
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