My assignment was straightforward: Come up with an easy-to-build armor project that a modeler can complete in a weekend. It wasn’t quite as simple as it sounded, though, because I’m an aircraft guy who had only one tank under his belt. What model would be good for a quick-build armor project? I needed the advice of seasoned armor experts, so I logged onto the FineScale.com forum and explained my project.

As always, the FSM forum members couldn’t have been more helpful: The subject mentioned most was a Soviet T-34. The local hobby shop had Tamiya’s reasonably priced T-34/85 kit in stock – I had my model.

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