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Tom B. (TomsStuff)
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Georgian T-72 SIM-1 1/72 [Modelcollect]

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18 3 July 2021, 19:21
Dave Flitton
Nice! Thanks for letting us know how you are "dirtying-up" the vehicle.
 20 July 2021, 18:30
Łukasz Gliński
Brilliant shading and wash 👍
 20 July 2021, 19:48
Neuling
Very good small scale build!
 21 July 2021, 08:31
Tom B.
Thank you guys for the kind words 👍 The chipped dust coat is something I will definetly do again on future builds 🙂
 21 July 2021, 09:07
Bruce Huxtable
Nice tutorial. Less is more ??
 24 July 2021, 16:25
Mirko Römer
Very fine result!
 12 September 2021, 18:51

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The T-72 SIM-1 is a Georgian upgrade of the T-72A, consisting of a Polish optical sight and a new communication system among others. The vehicles were ordered in 2006 and participated in the conflicts of 2008.

The kit is an offering by Modelcollect including a cast lower hull, link-and-lenth tracks as well as some photoetch. The instructions give one overall dark yellow-ish option, which seems incorrect, as I only saw plain green and camoflaged vehicles on original pictures. Additionally, the instructions make you put a stowage bin on the right side of the turret, which agiain - judging from the references I found - does not seem to belong there. Instead I put the snorkel there (don´t know if this is correct either :/). Most importantly however, the SIM-1 has a antenna-like "thingy" at the rear of the turret, which from what I´ve gathered seemy to belong to a GPS navigational system. As reference photos on the internet where limited and I do not have the option to take measurements of one of these vehicles myself, I roughly guessimated the antennas position etc. and built it from styrene.
Also, some armour-texture was added with MR Surfacer 500 (the stinky stuff - do NOT sniff).
Then again I went away from the reference pictures slightly by adding a tarp and a tent roll made from Milliput onto the turret.

I wrote a full article on the model here:
tomsstuffscalemodels..ng-and-painting.html

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