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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: Fitz on 08 November 2017, 03:17:42 AM
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This is Zvezda's 1:100 scale (15mm) WWII Soviet BA-10 armoured car.
It's the trickiest of these Zvezda kits I've encountered so far. Not a difficult build, but there are a few things to watch out for:
- The hull pieces interlock, and it took a bit of judicious bending and stretching to get them all seated properly against each other. Once in place, the fit is good and snug.
- The headlamps are very small and delicate, and there was no hope of getting their struts into the holes provided for them. I chose to trim them down and just glue them in place, though I could have enlarged the holes (but I couldn't immediately lay my hands on my pin vice to drill them). Both of them shot out of the tweezers, one of them never to be found again.
- The wheels are not interchangeable, and you do have to take care to get the right group off the sprue at the right time. And now, looking at the picture, I see I put the front wheels on inside-out. Too late to fix that now.
- The turret is very stiff on the pin provided. I got rid of the pin and magnetized it, so now it turns quite freely.
It builds up into a nice little kit, and now my Soviets have some scouting capability.
As an aside: Vallejo have changed their Yellow Green recipe since the last time I bought a bottle. It's now very much brighter than it used to be. The washes and weathering toned it down a bit, but it gave me a bit of a shock when it first went on.
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that looks the business. I thought it was 28mm at first. :o
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Agree - still looks pretty good. And I'm glad you provide the insights that you do (I also wasn't happy with the turret pins on my Azezda KV-1s).
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BA-10 #2 is done; it went together a lot more smoothly than #1 since I knew more what to expect — I managed to get the front wheels on the right way round, for a start, and both headlamps.
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I've painted on some basic markings, mainly so I can tell the two apart on the wargames table, but also because I prefer them a little less plain. No.3 is the first one I did, No.4 is the second.
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Very nice.