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Martin Oostrom
The colour suits the car. Well done

Christian W
That is cool. I like those "grocery getters".

Marcin Dudek
A new build starte 🙂. It seems quite easy but one thing puzzles me - the tracks. They compose of 4 straight plastic parts and instruction says to bend them with hair dryer. It is first time I encountered this type of tracks. Anyone tried doing something like this?

Snake Plissken
I have heard of this type of assembly but have never built one. However, I have lots of experience heating and softening styrene plastic. You can also try very hot or boiling water -- soak the tracks in boiling water, then fish them out of the water with long tweezers and bend them around the rear sprocket, idler and road wheels and hold until they cool. You may even get by using no heat, just slowly and carefully bend curves into the tracks.

Marcin Dudek
Thanks for help Snake! That tip is very helpfull 🙂

Guy Rump
Following. 👍

Marcin Dudek
You're welcome Guy 🙂

Marcin Dudek
After some work done I need to say I am a little disappointed with this kit. Instruction includes some mistakes and it is not always easy to read how and where exactly a specific part should be located. More over I expected more from new molds (parts require a lot of work to remove additional plastic).

Snake Plissken
Hi Marcin. My advice is to *expect mistakes* and do your research accordingly. It may or may not be fun to research the T-55 but most of the photos or line drawings you can find online are free, it just takes some time.

Marcin Dudek
Sure thing Snake 🙂. References in the Net are more than sufficient.

Snake Plissken
Good job adding the injector lines on the engine. I overlooked it the first time. 👍

Marcin Dudek
Thanks Snake 🙂. I was considering adding some more parts to the engine but they wouldn't be visible after assembly so I left it as it is. Thanks one again for the track bending tips, they were very helpfull.

Marcin Dudek
Some job with wearhering done. Still, I forgot to apply the decals first 🤦

Erik
Great project! I love Fichtenfoos Designs.
How did you make the eyes?

Wayne LaBar
Erik, the eyes are glass globes I bought off either ebay or amazon. They are from China. They were a bit too small (.5mm) but I added black o-rings which fit perfectly and the globes rests on the O-rings

René "Lord Bilbo" Bartholemy
I'm pushing my lower jaw closed, blink in my bulging eyes and try to curb my admiration! 🤯

Ben M
I love this!

Doubtingmango
That is so much fun!

Erik
Looks perfect! Thanks! 🙂

Ekki
Watching.

Mr D
Like a Mig 21 👍👍
The extra work looks good.
What were the holes you had to fill ??

Ben M
Nice communist tube

Villiers de Vos
Booking my seat.

Guy Rump
Following. 👍

S M
Welcome, mates! @Mr D Those holes I opened and then filled are auxiliary air doors that seems to be open always when the plane is on the ground.

Robert Podkoński
Good job so far, S M! Keep it up!

DerMattes
Looking good, following 👍

Mr D
Coming along nicely now , Nice decals set..👍👍
How do you find the KP plastic??
Keep up good work...nice subject 👌

S M
Thanks! 😄 I think the plastic is pretty nice. Not too soft and not too hard, but maybe closer to hard. The kit itself is challenging. Seemingly pretty detailet parts with rivets and all, but the fitting is bad. I have already lost some rivets due smoothing seams and filling gaps.

Dave Flitton
Looking good!

Mr D
Coming along nicely 👍👍
Like the blue-tak to place canopy.....l do same n remove once dry... works well.
Good luck on next steps 👌👍👍

Nicolas
Missed this one so far. Great start. 👍

S M
Thanks, mates! The blue-tack is extremely valuable tool for its versatility.

S M
Major bottleneck cleared by successfully painting the lynx in the rudder.

J35J
Joining late, good progress!👍🏻

Mr D
The stencil worked out well, l like your cutting tool....looks more accurate than a standard scalpel.
a fiddly job sorted now 👍

Villiers de Vos
Fantastic work so far. Especially the custom paint work.

Duster_d
Perfect!