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| Subject: | Re: Egyptian IS-3 Camo? |  |
| Date: | Jan 8, 2008 |
| From: | Cesar Oliva Atienza | |
Thank for your words. I´m glad you like it, I enjoyed this model quite a lot because it´s my only model with a fairly extensive detail work.
It´s the Trumpeter model -far from perfect, but acceptable OOTB and a good base with some tweaking and detailing-.
For an Egyptian vehicle I think it´s a better choice than Tamiya´s kit because of the version: Egypt only received modernised IS-3Ms as depicted by Trumpeter. Converting Tamiya´s earlier mark in that version could take quite an effort because it implies to scratch-build the new fenders.
Tamiya did a better job replicating the undercuts in the turret lower front and the gun mantlet top cover. But this can be easily corrected. The road wheels are the right diameter also -Trumpeter got it a little bit undersized. Overall Tamiya´s detail is crisper, but that´s not saying that Trumpeter is bad.
Strangely enough Tamiya provided late style tracks more appropiate for trumpeter´s kit and vice versa: Trumpeter provides early tracks wich suits Tamiya IS-3 better. In any case the tracks in the kit are quite bad so I used Friuls.
As for the ISU I don´t know for sure but I think I saw a drawing of it in a Russian book. In the russian battlefield web there is such a drawing -probably the same-:
http://www.battlefield.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41&Itemid=45
Regards |
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 | Egyptian IS-3 Camo? - James Wechsler - Jan 7, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Egyptian IS-3 Camo? - Cesar Oliva Atienza - Jan 7, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Egyptian IS-3 Camo? - John Yarosh - Jan 7, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Photos [IMG] - Cesar Oliva Atienza - Jan 7, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Egyptian IS-3 Camo? [IMG] - Cesar Oliva Atienza - Jan 7, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Photos [IMG] - Cesar Oliva Atienza - Jan 7, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Photos [IMG] - Cesar Oliva Atienza - Jan 7, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Photos [IMG] - Cesar Oliva Atienza - Jan 7, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Photos [IMG] - Cesar Oliva Atienza - Jan 7, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Photos [IMG] - Cesar Oliva Atienza - Jan 7, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Photos [IMG] - Cesar Oliva Atienza - Jan 7, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Photos [IMG] - Cesar Oliva Atienza - Jan 7, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Photos - John Yarosh - Jan 7, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Photos - Cesar Oliva Atienza - Jan 8, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Egyptian IS-3 Camo? - James Wechsler - Jan 8, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Egyptian IS-3 Camo? - Cesar Oliva Atienza - Jan 8, 2008 |
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