Post by McCoy on Apr 16, 2023 5:36:49 GMT -5
I tried to recreate two photos that show the knocked out but not destroyed T-34-57 that was the last ride of the Hero of the Soviet Union major Mikhail A. Lukin. The photos was taken a few days after the battle at Troyanovo. Major Lukin was the regimental commander that was leading the Kalinin Raid in the morning of October 17th 1941 near Moscow and when the battle was done he was among the dead.
The major reason for this build is that I wanted to build the back then lesser known version of the T-34, the T-34-57 that was uparmed with a 57mm ZIS-4 AT gun with a for the time tremendous armour penetrating capability. There wasn't many T-34-57 in service in the beginning of the war and there was even a few in 1943 in time for Kursk but then the project was dropped in favor of the upcoming T-34-85 that could do the same thing but that also had a much better HE performance as the ZIS-4 had very poor HE performance and was also suffering from a poor lifetime as the extremely expensive shells was wearing down the barrel at a fast rate. I didn't weather the upper hull as major Lukin was commanding a fresh from the factory tank that just had been delivered to the front. But I've receied a lot of flak from other builders over the years for that decision but here's me caring about that... ...wait... No not a single fuck given about that...
Started on July 16, 2009 and finished on January 27, 2010
The major reason for this build is that I wanted to build the back then lesser known version of the T-34, the T-34-57 that was uparmed with a 57mm ZIS-4 AT gun with a for the time tremendous armour penetrating capability. There wasn't many T-34-57 in service in the beginning of the war and there was even a few in 1943 in time for Kursk but then the project was dropped in favor of the upcoming T-34-85 that could do the same thing but that also had a much better HE performance as the ZIS-4 had very poor HE performance and was also suffering from a poor lifetime as the extremely expensive shells was wearing down the barrel at a fast rate. I didn't weather the upper hull as major Lukin was commanding a fresh from the factory tank that just had been delivered to the front. But I've receied a lot of flak from other builders over the years for that decision but here's me caring about that... ...wait... No not a single fuck given about that...
Started on July 16, 2009 and finished on January 27, 2010
