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As a child growing up during the end of the cold war, I remember things like, fall out drills in school (duck and cover in the shelter) in addition to fire drills in school. There was a real fear that the Soviet Bear would come streaming across the Fulda Gap and Nuclear oblivion would be right around the corner. Any miss step in the political brinkmanship by either country could bring this about and wars were fought by supporting proxies in far away places. Now that this is fading into the past and tensions have eased, we can look back and the reasons, and the things that were developed that took the world so close to the edge.
This is a truly broad and very interesting time to build a military model. It is also well represented in my stash of models. I thought very hard about WHAT I am going to build for this group build. Some of the projects that I had already planned are as follows:
M151 ford MUTT jeep and trailer, This was going to be made up for my Father's old command. Eventually I will have a vehicle that is representative of all of my friends or family's military service. Decided that I want to wait on this one, I want them done well.
Next I have a M26 Pershing or a trio of Pattons (M60A1) (m60A3) (M48A5) no US tank says COLD WAR like the Pattons, These are on my shelf too, Maybe..........A secondary project.
Israeli M4 and M50/51 Shermans, Interesting to be sure but, I have built LOTS of Sherman already, I need a break.
The multitudes of jets of every sort, Another F4 Phantom II build is tempting, A Iranian F14 vs a 6th fleet F14 meet up would be cool, or maybe a FB111 bring the pain to Libya. but honestly, Jets and helicopters were what I was mostly building in High school.
Then in the corner, covered in dust I have a Tamiya JS3, T62A and I have a Trumpeter 1/35 Soviet T-62 Mod.1962 This is what I have finally settled on. A pair of T62s, One of the most numerous and wide spread tanks ever, The T62 is with out a doubt a great representative of the cold war era. They served in every theater and conflict that I can think of and I have not built one yet.
As I started to research this choice I notice that the earlier Tamiya T62a is considered the worst model that Tamiya has made currently. and very inaccurate. This is where the trumpeter model came from, Then while on Evilbay, I came across this:Verlinden 1:35 T62 Detail Set + Battle Dmg. Parts #2157 wouldn't you know it but I won both. The verlinden kit "fixes" the earlier Tamiya kit. About that time I came across this website; SCRATCHMOD.COM and IDF in scale Arab subjects This sealed it, new techniques to learn, lots of possibilities to research. I am going to build a pair of T62s, right now a damaged one that may be Arab in nature and maybe a Russian one, displayed together tells a pretty broad story of the cold war ear, As I add the a fore mentioned models and repair some of my earlier builds I should have a shelf full of models that represent a telling part of world history.
I would post images of the kits but 2/3s of them are in the postal stream some where. More when they arrive. In the mean time I am going to fix up some old models and practice some of those damaged tank techniques.
This is a truly broad and very interesting time to build a military model. It is also well represented in my stash of models. I thought very hard about WHAT I am going to build for this group build. Some of the projects that I had already planned are as follows:
M151 ford MUTT jeep and trailer, This was going to be made up for my Father's old command. Eventually I will have a vehicle that is representative of all of my friends or family's military service. Decided that I want to wait on this one, I want them done well.
Next I have a M26 Pershing or a trio of Pattons (M60A1) (m60A3) (M48A5) no US tank says COLD WAR like the Pattons, These are on my shelf too, Maybe..........A secondary project.
Israeli M4 and M50/51 Shermans, Interesting to be sure but, I have built LOTS of Sherman already, I need a break.
The multitudes of jets of every sort, Another F4 Phantom II build is tempting, A Iranian F14 vs a 6th fleet F14 meet up would be cool, or maybe a FB111 bring the pain to Libya. but honestly, Jets and helicopters were what I was mostly building in High school.
Then in the corner, covered in dust I have a Tamiya JS3, T62A and I have a Trumpeter 1/35 Soviet T-62 Mod.1962 This is what I have finally settled on. A pair of T62s, One of the most numerous and wide spread tanks ever, The T62 is with out a doubt a great representative of the cold war era. They served in every theater and conflict that I can think of and I have not built one yet.
As I started to research this choice I notice that the earlier Tamiya T62a is considered the worst model that Tamiya has made currently. and very inaccurate. This is where the trumpeter model came from, Then while on Evilbay, I came across this:Verlinden 1:35 T62 Detail Set + Battle Dmg. Parts #2157 wouldn't you know it but I won both. The verlinden kit "fixes" the earlier Tamiya kit. About that time I came across this website; SCRATCHMOD.COM and IDF in scale Arab subjects This sealed it, new techniques to learn, lots of possibilities to research. I am going to build a pair of T62s, right now a damaged one that may be Arab in nature and maybe a Russian one, displayed together tells a pretty broad story of the cold war ear, As I add the a fore mentioned models and repair some of my earlier builds I should have a shelf full of models that represent a telling part of world history.
I would post images of the kits but 2/3s of them are in the postal stream some where. More when they arrive. In the mean time I am going to fix up some old models and practice some of those damaged tank techniques.
