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Chernozëm
Chernozëm
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by: Engin Kayral [ GRAYWOLF ]

Introduction

One of the latest figures of BRAVO*6 - B6-35137 Chernozëm depicts a World War II Soviet Tanker in typical clothing posed to clean the black soil of South Russia under his boots with an SS dagger.
Review

Figure comes in company’s light brown cardboard box labeled with a photo of the painted figure. Inside the box, parts are served with casting blocks and inserted into transparent zip-lock bags. Sculpting and casting quality are nice in clean and crisp details. No casting mistakes and no need to clean on the sample, another prime and paint figure.

Tanker is sculpted in 1/35 scale by Vladimir Demchenko and cast in grey resin. He comes in 7 parts.

  • Body ; He wears traditional Russian Army cotton-wool padded / quilted winter jacket - Telogreika and baggy look trousers - Sharovari with reinforcement patches on the knees. Body proportions, pose balance, folds , wrinkles and details on uniform like collar, padded texture with vertical sewing lines, side pockets, pistol belt over the jacket are nicely sculpted. As for the footgear; he has knee high black leather or kirza / artificial leather Jackboot.

  • Head ; Facial features and tanker helmet details are well defined. He has a WW II canvas Soviet Tanker helmet with horizontal pad to the forehead , three padded ridges to the crown running front to back, pocket pouches to the ears for fitting the integral earphones and rear neck flap folded upwards.

  • Left arm is posed to lean on the tank or somewhere else.

  • Right arm holds a dagger.

  • Left boot

  • Dagger ; He uses a M33 SS dagger to clean mud under his jackboot.

  • Holster ; He carries a M1895 Nagant Holster on the right side.
    Conclusion

    Another interesting posed, nicely sculpted and cast figure from BRAVO*6 to display World War II tanks or other vehicles.
  • SUMMARY
    Nice posed figure that can be displayed next to all Soviet armor during World War II.
      Scale: 1:35
      Mfg. ID: B6-35137
      PUBLISHED: Oct 25, 2020
      NATIONALITY: Russia
    NETWORK-WIDE AVERAGE RATINGS
      THIS REVIEWER: 92.20%
      MAKER/PUBLISHER: 95.07%

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    About Engin Kayral (Graywolf)
    FROM: IZMIR, TURKEY / TüRKçE

    Born in 1962,married and having 2 sons. I started modelling about 8 years old building USS Fletcher with mom. It was a model dad brought from USA., I think in those days only a few people in Turkey had info on scale model kits. Grown as an AF officer son , I built many aircraft models in years. Som...

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