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T-90

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T-90 is main battle tank of Russian Federation. I used the Tamiya T-72M as a basic kit, and resin conversion sets from Miniarm (welded turret, conversion set for hull, wheels and workable tracks). Small details added from Modelpoint and some scratch. Finished with russian authentic colours AKAN. Weathered with MIG and SIN products. There are not a lot of T-90 in the Russian army so I decided to depict a vehicle as displayed on military exhibition in Nizhniy Tagil, Russia, after trial runs on proving ground. Hope you like it!
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About the Author

About Melnikov Anton (talib)
FROM: MOSCOW CITY, RUSSIA

Born and living in Moscow, Russia. 28 years old. Modelling modern armor since 2003. Ex-army officer, now employed as HR specialist in big international Oil&Gas company. Beatles fan. Happy modelling!


Comments

Excellent work, Anton! From looking at Tsuyoshi's similar T-90 build in 'Armour Modelling' I know this was not as simple as you make it look. I also like your painting and would like to know what are "AKAN" colours? Like other responders, I too have a Miniarm (T-72B) upgrade parts to modernize Tamiya's kit; so your post serves as motivation and reference. Thanks for sharing! - James
JUN 26, 2009 - 10:54 AM
Anton - a fantastic built, paint job and all round finish. A Great looking T-90! I have the same Miniarm T-90 conversion sets for the Tamiya T-72 kit and was wondering if there were any difficult build issues using the resin sets? Any feedback / thoughts would be appreciated.
JUN 27, 2009 - 05:06 AM
Hello Gary, im building a T72B conversion an my front hull was approximately 1mm shorter in every direction. And I have a fit issue where the front meets the lower hull. On the other hand the resin is of good quality an easy to work with. Great model, Anton, I started hunting down the parts for my t-90. Lately some of their products seem to be out of stock everywhere. Are they still in business?
JUN 27, 2009 - 05:29 AM
Hi Arpad, Thanks for the advice about the T-72B size issues. By chance I also have the Miniarm T-72B conversion set so I will make a note of the issues you found. Miniarm seems to be hard to track down (here in the UK I can find only one stockist -"AFV Magazine"). What I do know however is if you have any missing or damaged parts their aftersales service (Miniarm) is dreadful. I am STILL waiting for 2 missing parts from their 1/35 T-64B turret set that I bought in JANUARY this year. Maybe that's why some dealers won't stock the range? It is also expensive here in the UK with a turret / hull / wheels & tracks set costing the best part of £100.00 for a full conversion PLUS the purchase cost of the kit itself. Thanks again Arpad for the reply. Gary
JUN 27, 2009 - 06:13 AM
Hello, my friends! I'm happy, that you liked my T-90. Akan paints is home-made highly accurate paints in Dupont base. You know, it's paints to be used on cars. Aviable via LINK About Miniartm business: firm moved to St.Petersburg, Russia so they needed some time to continue production. Now everything is ok. T-72B has rather difficult issue with turret, you need to scratch a lot of mountings on turret. I had no problems with front hull, it fit good
JUN 28, 2009 - 06:40 PM
Beautiful build, Anton. A real beauty...'krasavitsa.' Thanks for the photos, Matt
JUN 28, 2009 - 07:14 PM
Thank You for the good news, Anton. The other problem with my T72 B turret was that all the supporting ribs for the wire on the front part were broken. Maybe Miniarm could think about better packaging, these details are rather delicate and difficult to repair. Other than this the details are really amazing. Im going to start building a T90 next week. Happy modelling Arpad
JUN 29, 2009 - 01:25 AM
Arpad, a had the same problem. so I cut all of them and scrathed them from 0,3 mm styrene.
JUN 29, 2009 - 02:55 AM
Lovely work Anton ! I have this MiniArm conversion, the tracks, the wheels etc, and the Tamiya kit. Any suggestion or lessons you think are important from your build please ? Cheers Paul
JUN 30, 2009 - 08:14 PM
Absolutely outstanding work, congratulations!! Phil
JUL 03, 2009 - 07:24 PM