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MiniArt: T-60 Light Tank
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Posted: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 - 07:21 PM UTC


Coming soon from Miniart is another Soviet tank kit packed with interior details.

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Posted: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 - 09:32 PM UTC
So happy about this. Katusha's were also mounted on these.
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Posted: Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 12:08 AM UTC
I'd like to see a comparison review of the chassis with the one from Aeroplast before I fork out any money on this. I presume it will be better than Zvezda/RPM/Maquette T-60's

I wonder what I should do with these other T-60 kits,
target practice with my air rifle maybe .....

/ Robin
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Posted: Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 12:13 AM UTC
Looks sweet.
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Posted: Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 01:02 AM UTC
Great. All the previous Slavic kits were an insult to a such an important little tank.
pgb3476
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Posted: Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 01:13 AM UTC
The Aeroplast/RPM one was not that bad and it came with a lot of PE. Complete fenders and upgraded turret armor in PE.
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Posted: Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 02:19 AM UTC
pgb3476 I agree with you on the RPM kit. Swap the tracks and clean the corrosion off of the PE and it is not that bad. Some extra little details can be added and some fruil tracks to make it look good. Having said that I will buy every version of this that they do and I hope that they do the Katusha version as well.
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Posted: Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 03:49 AM UTC
Yes, after all the T-30/40/50/70/80 from HB and MiniArt now the leftover T-60. Aaand with interior, great!
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Posted: Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 03:59 AM UTC
All we need now are a good BT-2 and a BT-5.
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Posted: Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 05:02 AM UTC
Nice, with Miniart's reputation this should be a great kit!
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Posted: Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 09:18 AM UTC
Very happy to see this kit!
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Posted: Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 09:18 AM UTC
What AOS said - yes.
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Posted: Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 11:16 AM UTC
BT-2,is announced by HB !
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Posted: Saturday, May 20, 2017 - 02:36 AM UTC
Wow. First, now I want this model. Second: they had the engine in the crew compartment? It must have been a pretty bad place to be in...
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Posted: Saturday, May 20, 2017 - 02:55 AM UTC

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Wow. First, now I want this model. Second: they had the engine in the crew compartment? It must have been a pretty bad place to be in...


I was thinking the same thing .... already small, then the engine there had to be hell, hot, stink and noise..ok in Russian winter maybe it was not so bad the engine heat but still...
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Posted: Monday, May 22, 2017 - 07:24 PM UTC
Well, there's also the Russian summer. It's quite hot... plus imagine being thrown around in a tank where a scolding hot engine shares the space with you.
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Posted: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 08:07 PM UTC
My grandma's uncle fought on a T-60 and T-70. He survived the war, worked as a teacher of a literature at school and passed in 2003. When I was a kid he told me that actually it didn't matter what tank are you fighting in - light or heavy - they all could become brother's tomb at ease if used not right. Otherwise if you used a light tank against an infantry without heavy weapons - it could have a success. And of course he envied a bit guys who were fighting in a T-34 or KV (His battle career didn't last till IS's because he received some battle wounds and was decomissioned).
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Posted: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 04:14 AM UTC

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My grandma's uncle fought on a T-60 and T-70. He survived the war, worked as a teacher of a literature at school and passed in 2003. When I was a kid he told me that actually it didn't matter what tank are you fighting in - light or heavy - they all could become brother's tomb at ease if used not right. Otherwise if you used a light tank against an infantry without heavy weapons - it could have a success. And of course he envied a bit guys who were fighting in a T-34 or KV (His battle career didn't last till IS's because he received some battle wounds and was decomissioned).


You are fortunate to be able to hear his stories. I had 2 great uncles that fought in France in WWI, and never talked about it.
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Posted: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 03:10 PM UTC
Actually I can't say these were "stories" - sudden glimpses for most part - veterans don't like to talk too much about what happened to them with non-veterans. It was mostly like - I'm sitting and building say IS-3 or something and he comes and says "Ah! IS-3 - if only I had it in 1942 instead of T-60, maybe my right-hand thumb would still be intact..." He was mostly into literature - always wrote birthday envelopes in poetry to everyone he knew )) And with his wife they've organised Pushkin evenings for local public in Volgodonsk in their flat - that were the matters that he could discuss for hours either than tanks ))
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