Read Time: 3 minutes MTS-038 Some days I feel like Rip Van Winkle, awakening to find the modelling world completely transformed and unfamiliar. Getting back into my long lost passion for modelling a couple of years ago, I discovered the extensive use of photo-etch for detailing. The T-34 has always been a favourite of mine, so, one of the […]
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Read Time: 9 minutes The Red Army “railroad torpedo” ЖДТ-3 (ZhDT-3) was developed by the Ordzhonikidze Machine Plant of Podolsk in 1935 as a weapon against enemy armoured trains. It consisted of a small, two-axle, battery-powered trolley armed with a 495lb (225 kg) bomb containing a 220lb (100 kg) high-explosive charge. The ZhDT-3 had a top speed of 37
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Read Time: 2 minutes Quick Tip. Making wooden crates, by Sergiusz Pęczek 1) The resin PaK 40 AMMO crates are first primed with an AMMO grey primer using an airbrush, and then hand-painted using A.MIG-036 Old Wood acrylic colour. 2) When the base colour is dry to the touch, we slightly modify the colour by applying a very thin
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Read Time: 4 minutes T-34 Engine Service Life of 300 km Reliability is a misunderstood term, a hornet’s nest of controversy, parroted by almost every modeller. But, what does reliability mean and how is it defined? What is the measurement criteria? For example, say a unit full-strength is 20 tanks and can draw from a motor pool of 60
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Read Time: 3 minutes The massive Schwerer Gustav and Dora WWII railway guns were pulled by specially constructed Diesel Electric Locomotives DE D 311.01 A/B – D 311.04 A/B.
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Read Time: < 1 minute Armored Train №. 12 “Poznańczyk” (Poznanian) shoved off the track at Płochocin in 1939. On the morning of September 9, at pp no. 12, he destroyed 7 German vehicles from the 23rd Infantry Division The Germans fired artillery and started a fire in one of the wagons. The train turned back to Warsaw and tried
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Read Time: 4 minutes Stalin’s Torch Men Command № 0428 confirmed. Stalin’s “Torch-men-Order” finally confirmed by Russia itself Aus Metapediahttp://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Fackelm%C3%A4nnerbefehl The so-called “torch-men order” (Fackelmännerbefehl) is the command № 0428, issued November 17th, 1941 by Stalin. It declares that Russian partisans in German uniforms, particularly those of the Waffen-SS, were to destroy all settlements within a swathe of
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Read Time: 2 minutes How to Choose the Right Kelvin Color Temperature Light bulb color temperature is represented in the unit of absolute temperature, Kelvin, noted by the symbol K. Household fixtures are commonly found in color temperatures on the Kelvin scale of 2700K (warm incandescent), 3000K (warm white halogen) and 3500K (household fluorescent). Color temperatures higher than 3500K are typically used for
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