T55 1/35

by Richard Briggs

                                This was built out of the box really isn't any point in building one of these anymore...what with
                                better kits available from ESCI and Tamiya.  But, around 1989/90, Lindberg
                                released a T-55 -- as well as some other horrible 1/35th Russian kits, and,
                                being more energetic than I am now, I took up the challenge.  This kit was
                                BAD, the barrel was square in cross section!  Back then the only aftermarket
                                was used, along with tons of scratch-building and stealing of parts where
                                ever I could find them (a Tamiya T-62 was sacrificed to improve this kit).
                                Interestingly enough, I'm glad I built it -- I can now sit a Lindberg and an
                                ESCI T-55 beside a Tamiya one on the shelf.
                                This model depicts a "garden-variety" Soviet T-55 in the 60s or 70s.

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