This gun kills nazi scum.
This is the somewhat rough but wonderfully detailed 1/35 scale model from Zvezda of the BA-10 armoured car (brone-automobile). Over 3300 were built in the three years preceding the Great Patriotic War. At the beginning of the war they were effective against lightly-armoured German tanks. Tracks (carried by each unit over the rear fenders) could be placed over the read wheel set to produce a snow mobile version. The undercarriage was built and finished separately from the body. Chassis and body were airgun spray painted with Tamiya hull red, then the chassis was heavily weathered and darkened and greyed. The body was spray painted with a dark green (Tamiya spray can), then the slogans were hand painted onto the turret in white (for country). Then the body was gently misted twice with a Tamiya spray can of white primer. This gave it the worn camouflage look and allowed a hint of the whie slogan to show through. The the whole thing was assembled and the entire body rubbed with powders (slate grey and soot black) to darken and bring out details. Rust was applied gently. I added clear glass headlamps as the kit had green plastic lamps. The main gun barrel was drilling out a bit. There is graffiti on the door reading 'For the Leningrad Front' in cyrillic. The final model represents a unit on the Leningrad front in the winter of 1942-1943. I received the kit from Moscow by post on Christmas eve; opened it on Christmas; and had the whole thing finished and ready to compete in two weeks. It won a joint first place award at IPMS Ottawa in January 2016 when it tied with the wonderful work done by Mike Roy.
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| BA-10 armoured car |
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| BA-10 armoured car |
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| BA-10 armoured car |
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| BA-10 armoured car |
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| BA-10 armoured car |
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| BA-10 armoured car |
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| BA-10 armoured car |
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| BA-10 armoured car |
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| Third place winner in the Armoured vehicle (WWII) category at CAPCON 2017 on 30 September 2017. |
