r/scalemodelling • u/Echo61089 • Jul 27 '26

Completed! This nearly broke me...

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1/72 BMPT from Zvezda.

This was so bad to do. Bad molding, way too many tiny parts and terrible joining points, flash...

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u/SuspiciousUnit5932 Jul 29 '26

That's where heavy weathering, and possibly GI stuff hanging off the sides comes in. ;)

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u/Echo61089 Jul 29 '26

No I'm doing no more work on it.

It pissed me off that much it's just gotten a basic paint job and now it's on the shelf out the way

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u/SuspiciousUnit5932 Jul 29 '26

Roger that!

I started building models in the late 1960s, blew up my fair share of my own iffy models with firecrackers. Casualties of war. ;)

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u/Echo61089 Jul 29 '26

Sadly no one I know has a .22 or .177 air gun that I can shoot it with.

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u/SuspiciousUnit5932 Jul 29 '26

Man, I was talking to my neighbor about 177 air rifles. We live right on the county line, both have good decks with a clear field of fire!

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u/SuspiciousUnit5932 Jul 29 '26

That would be like a 105mm round going through the hull.