Military Illustrated Modeller – August 2019

 Military Illustrated Modeller - August 2019

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GRAFFITI BRIDGE

Then it was time for the real fun.. Armed with

graffiti references as best as I could find, I set

about recreating the Czechoslovakian graffiti,

in many ways, the real reason behind the entire

project. Having enlarged the text and symbols

on my laptop screen, I began painting the visible

slogans with a 0000 brush, a good pair of reading

glasses, a large bottle of Erdinger beer and some

Humbrol gloss enamel, thinned with white spirit.

The final addition to the T-10M was a resin tank

commander (from Russian manufacturer 'Tank'),

very generously given to me by my old pal Mick

Jordan. These figures paint up nicely and add that

vital human dimension to a build. Tune in next time

when I tackle RPG Model's 1:35 T-80U – one of

the last of the Soviet Union's tank warriors – whose

big moment in history would, ironically enough,

turn out to be trying to halt and turn back the

people's will; not in Budapest or Prague but in

Moscow during the failed 1991 coup d'état. U

Availability;

Meng models are widely available from good model shops and

online. http://www.creativemodels.co.uk

Head-on view of tarnished T-10,

complete with all manner of Nazi

type markings. These historical

references to the previous set of

totalitarian invaders must have

confused the Soviet conscripts, to

put it mildly