Award Winner Built Xact Scale Model 1/35 Russian T-80U Main Battle Tank +PE

Description: DREAM WORKS HERE Item Name: .LKZ and Omsk TransmashT-80U Main Battle Tank Kits .Xact Scale Models Scale: .1:35 Builder:.3 Kingdom Item Status:.Built To Order / Pre-Order Detail features: Award winner built T-80U with great overall details of mode. Beautiful camo color scheme with top building quality. Total 428 parts (391 parts in grey styrene, 33 etched brass, 2 flexible tracks, 1 length of twisted copper wire, 1 clear styrene). Adding ERA and lot`s turret equipment device. Reactive armor with incredible detail. Finely detailed deck surface and side skirts. Great details on the machine gun. Adding gas drum, tow cable and more accessories. * Top building quality. * Moulding quality is excellent with clean crisp detail on the parts. * PE frets, which include the screens, skirt, handle and many more. * Surface details are very well done with a mix of engraved/recessed details, weld lines, raised detail, bolt and rivet detail. * Cast texturing and flush screws on the turret for a good overall appearance. * Added inside the turret shell are the Commander’s and Gunner’s sight panels. * The Commander’s hatch has excellent detail on both sides of the opening half as well as a very detailed main sight. * Hatch with seven separate periscopes on the inside and outside plus a grab handle and latch on the inside quite a detailed. * The main gun tube with the thermal jacket is molded in one piece apart from the separate muzzle cap with great detail. * The smoke dischargers have separate caps, which improve the look a lot. * The mantlet has nice texture on the canvas cover * Brass etched bolt ring fitted between the mantlet and barrel tube. * The main sight has a small etched backplate. * Two large Kontakt 5 ERA sub-assemblies`s detail is very well done with a separate part for the lower ‘flap’ sections. * Also supplied is the large electrical ducting piping on the turret roof leading to the smoke tubes with great detail. * The large front searchlight is a fairly detailed. * Smaller details added to the turret include four weapons pedestals, small lights and the gunner’s sight for very busy appearance of the turret. * The Kord 12.7mm Heavy Machine Gun is a very nice molding with great detail. * The multi-part snorkel tube is nicely detailed and matches reference photos well. * The main wading trunk is an impressive single large molding that has the angled intake and the lower rectangular. * Added to the top of the truck is a preformed etched domed mesh cover and an outer etched ring. * The lower hull with lot`s excellent detail with floor, sides, and lower front and rear plates included. * The engine deck has excellent details including raised and engrave detail as well as open intake grills for a nice appearance. * Detail on the idlers, road wheels and drive sprockets is very well done and matches the real things well. * The road wheel have inner and outer wheels with separate hub cap, the wheels have the correct dish profile and nicely represented rim bolts. * Rubber mold line around the center of the tyre which is present on the actual tyre to show well-worn tires. * The drive sprockets are also nicely detailed with the spoke outer sprocket with good definition on the outer bolts. * Correctly shaped inner solid sprocket disc, the final drive housings are also correctly shaped with the sprockets. * There is an etched mud scraper bar for the drive sprockets. * Full-length vinyl-type tracks with very good detail on both. * Link detail and the fully hollowed-out guide horns which do look impressive for vinyl. * APU (Auxiliary Power Unit) is made up of eight parts with great detail. * The brass mud flaps for best detail finish. * The two multipart head lights and tail lights with great detail. * The bullet splash guard in the glacis is moulded nice and thin and the tow hooks. * Small position lights and driver’s pericopes and top cover w/detail. * The large central exhaust box has four parts with nice details. * Small brass etched brackets to add along the hull sides to hold the cables in place. * The ammo boxes and other details added to the truck for great finish. * Fuel drums have good detail. * Tow cables supplied as metal cable with great detail. * Adding tools and more accessories. Airbrushed and painted, base color with primer for better detail and shading, multi-color filters for blend color effects, oil and water wash with panels, doors, rivets finishing, detail paint job on rust and paint chips off with scratches looking, worn and bare metal realistic simulating, flow rust and rain streaks effects, great exhaust grill representing, also smear and dirt with mud and dust appearing, dry brushing to emphasis and highlighting texture with edge for good wear and fading, more on real live heavy weathering with decals and unit markings, final protective layer for long term collection. Discontinued high priced kit, the price may higher or lower when you order, a good chance to have a rare kit high building quality model. but if you really want have cost lower, just switch to other kits or check or store and contact us for detail. 1629 1 Dream Works Hobby 2 Dream Works Hobby 3 Dream Works Hobby 4 Dream Works Hobby 5 Dream Works Hobby 6 Dream Works Hobby 7 Dream Works Hobby 8 Dream Works Hobby 9 Dream Works Hobby 10 Dream Works Hobby 11 Dream Works Hobby 12 Dream Works Hobby 13 Dream Works Hobby 14 Dream Works Hobby 15 Dream Works Hobby 16 Dream Works Hobby 17 Dream Works Hobby 18 Dream Works Hobby 19 Dream Works Hobby 20 Dream Works Hobby 21 Dream Works Hobby 22 Dream Works Hobby 23 Dream Works Hobby 24 Dream Works Hobby 25 Dream Works Hobby 26 Dream Works Hobby 27 Dream Works Hobby 28 Dream Works Hobby 29 Dream Works Hobby 30 Dream Works Hobby 31 Dream Works Hobby 32 Dream Works Hobby In regard to Soviet Minister of Defense Dmitriy Ustinov, he loved new toys and under Brezhnev what Dmitriy wants, Dmitriy gets. He was starry-eyed over the T-64 tank and wanted it to be the main battle tank of all Soviet forces. But the T-64 had a lousy engine and many features which had not been full thought through, so a "back-up" version, the T-72, soon eclipsed it with the Red Army. But when word leaked out in the early 1970s that the US was considering a turbine engine for their next main battle tank, he had to have one too. Kharkov (the T-64 producer) and Nizhniy Tagil (the T-72 builder) tried fitting turbines to their tanks, and while they worked, neither factory would accede to making them as they got horrible mileage. Undaunted, the Leningrad Kirov Factory under Zhosef Kotin volunteered to put a turbine in the T-64 chassis. Under chief designer Nikolay Popov, they produced Article 219 which was the prototype of the T-80. This tank was approved for service in 1976, but with such poor mileage the Red Army did not want it. A T-80A model went nowhere, and it was only with the T-80B the tank went into production in the early 1980s. This tank added a through-the-barrel ATGM capability (as Article 219R) and in 1983 was also fitted with reactive armor protection and became the T-80BV, which appeared in forward units such as the GSFG in 1985. But even this "improved" T-80 had lousy mileage – with 600 liters of extra fuel and all internal fuel it could barely reach 380 kilometers on highways. The rest of the Soviet tank fleet could do 500 kilometers without and 700 kilometers with 400 liters of extra fuel, so it was a cropper from a planning standpoint. (The generals noted it would need 2 to 2.5 times the number of fuel tankers but the MoD would not purchase them.) Back to the drawing board. The T-80U was actually approved for service in 1985, but it took until 1990 for the introduction of the new GTD-1250T engine before it could achieve the 500 kilometer range (with 400 liters of extra fuel). This tank used the newer laser-beam-rider 9M119 ATGM system, new radios, a "Buran-PA" night sight, and later mounted the newer "Kontakt-5" ERA in place of the older "Kontakt-1" used on the T-80BV. It also had a new design turret similar to that used on the diesel-powered T-80UD tank that used modern internal armor arrays and not the matrix of ceramic balls and aluminum the T-80B borrowed from the T-64 series. The Russian Army today retains about 4,000 T-80 series tanks, of which 3,000 are in storage and most of the 1,000 on active duty are a mixture of B and U types.

Price: 489.98 USD

Location: Scarborough, Ontario

End Time: 2024-12-16T16:58:41.000Z

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