Hide your Maus, your Elefant, your E100, and your Teeny Tiny KingTiger!

I am coming for you in my Hun Hunter, my Bosch Beater, my Kraut Kicker, or whatever this wuz gonna be if it had been operational before WWII ended. I know it was designed as an assault gun, not a tank hunter, but it is my model and I can pretend it is anything I want it to be. As soon as I finish building the wings and pontoons, it will fly and float as well. Golly, now that I think about it, didn't the the Russians already develope one of those in 1936?

A T28/T95 Super Heavy Tank was the last thing I ever imagined that I would ever scratchbuild....... Uhhhh..... I mean......assemble from assorted materials suitable for building model tanks.

Now I know why I never imagined I would build it. It was a pain. Originally, it was going to be R/C, but that idea died an early death. It's a good thing you can't see the suspension, unless you really like Mickey Mouse rigs. Thank goodness for anti panzerfaust sand skirts! The track is from the HL Pershing. It took three sets of Pershing track and sprockets from Phil at RC Tank Wars to put shoes on this beast. The muzzle brake and .50 cal MG are "borrowed" kit items, but the rest is made from "basic stuff", or made from molds of kit parts. I worked on this model every day since Father's Day. As usual, it's the detail work that tried my patience and made me an alcoholic.

For the rest of today, I'm gonna enjoy thinking that this is "the only 1/16 scale T28 model" in the world. Tomorrow, I'll betcha 50 guys will post photos of theirs! And then Heng Long and Tamiya will announce the release of their battle ready example for only $150. Well, maybe not Tamiya.

I would be interested in your opinion of the texturing. I tried to duplicate how the main center hull looks, which was a casting on the real life 1:1 tank. I tried a new process (to me) and can't decide if it's sorta ok, or kinda crappy. Either way, I think I know how to do it better next time. I spray painted the parts to be textured with automotive primer paint. Then I quickly poured a container of table salt all over it. After it dried I brushed it off, and sprayed it with primer again. Later it got the OD paint job. The primer dried too quickly....... I expected the salt to dissolve and flatten out more than it did. I goofed on that........oh well. The gun mantle turned out better, I sanded the salt lightly before final painting. My tank may not look perfect, but I'll bet it tastes great!

At this point, I don't whether to turn this thing into a skate board or a mailbox.

The one encouraging thing about doing this model is.......maybe a Churchill would be a piece of cake by comparison.

Hmmmmm, I think I feel another brain cramp coming on.

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