Garford-Putilov 1917

[JamesAPrattIII]

Glad to be of help. one thing you might want to add to any Red Army dioramas is a Commissar figure wearing a leather coat and armed with a mauser C96 pistol. Chekists also ran around in leather coats. Besides making you look tough it helped that lice didn't live in them like wool coats.

[Steven Robson]

Some small progress on the people's-tank-eating-comrade-truck and still removing the lice from this kit.




Here's a close-up of the R) side machine gun thingo.  I think it's called a machine gun turret but don't quote me on this.  I'm going to do some root canal work on this part of the kit and drill them out with dental tools.

[Steven Robson]

This is the Comrade Stalin Tool






Resistance is futile.  The Comrade Stalin Tool is my new best friend; no model, piece of cheese, solid block of concrete and or nasty little prostate gland can resist the Comrade Stalin Tool.




I have to take the top off the middle compartment to get to the machine gun turrets for a re-build.  While I was there, I decided that I didn't like (all of) the rivets.  These will have to be re-done for the whole kit after it's been re-skinned with brass plate.  Removal of the rivets and surface details are done with a different tool but I can't show you this one.

you're such a rivet counter

Oh, and the chassis is all buckled and screwed-up so I'm going to cut that bit off and re-build it.  The model can then come together as two sub assemblies.

[boggie]

"The Comrade Stalin Tool is my new best friend; no model, piece of cheese, solid block of concrete and or nasty little prostate gland can resist the Comrade Stalin Tool."

Gee Steven.
That does look painfull!    But so was stalin!
And you are removing all the rivits and rebuilding the chassis!
And re-skin!
Well, If I had any doubts I don't now. You are certifiable! 
But very much looking forward to following your progress.
I reckon this is going to be a bit a lot special. 

[Steven Robson]

Thanks Mr boogie-woogie 

I'm fond of the People's Truck.  It's a difficult build for me; I reckon she'll clean-up with a little love and some make-up.  Oh, and a re-build on the rear gun turret, it's wrong.

Ivan tells me that it's a very old and difficult kit.  I'm hoping to get some more information from him soon.

Cheers Otto