Large-scale modeling of the Soviet Union. Part of 1
Probably we all love to receive gifts. Here, in fact, nothing to ask. It is nice to receive them from colleagues, acquaintances, and even nicer from relatives, because they know you better than anyone else. For example, I was very pleased to receive two gifts from my granddaughter at once on this new year. Previously, this happened to be something pleasant, but not for the soul. This time, to my great surprise, I received two boxes from her at once. In one was the tank "Matilda" (combined model of the company "Star") in scale 1: 100, in the other fighter "Hurricane" (the same company) in scale 1: 144. “But I never collected planes? - I was surprised. "" Yes, but you always said that you wanted it! - she objected. - And this airplane is small, very “cozy”, it will not take much space. And then I always wanted to see how such models are assembled and painted ... "" And why else a tank? "" A tank? You said that you like “Matilda” ... ”So I had to assemble these two models, and at the same time tell her history large-scale modeling in our country. The story turned out to be very instructive and, having told it, I thought that it would not be uninteresting for the readers of “VO” to “shake the old days” and recall the youth and my early childhood hobbies. Well, in general ... once again think a little about the past.
Miniature diorama "Matilda" on the bridge "from the" Zvezdinsky "set with a tank "Matilda" on a scale of 1: 100. The tank, as you can see, is branded, but everything else is the work of the author. I wanted to "have some fun" ... otherwise you write and write everything ...
Well, this is the above-mentioned “Hurricane” on the scale of 1: 144. I do not know how anyone, but I really liked this modelka. Well, you can do it in just half an hour. To photograph only difficult. We need a special lens, and it is quite expensive for such rare shots.
I got acquainted with scale modeling a long time ago, when I was in fourth grade in 1965. One boy brought a glued-up Yak-18 model to the class, I naturally liked it very much, and I wanted the same for myself. Wanted and ... went to the store, which he called me, went and bought. Of course, I used to drag him in the glue just scary, but ... even in that form, he caused my admiration, and most importantly - you could play with him. Then came the turn of the Mi-10K helicopter (crane helicopter), in which I really liked the propeller blades made of yellow plastic and the black legs of the spider-like chassis and the same wheels.
Gradually, I learned how to glue such models pretty clean, but I didn’t translate decals (decals) into the set, because they were terrible. And then in the same store I suddenly saw a completely different box with the model of the GDR An-24 aircraft manufactured by VEB Plasticart in the characteristic red coloring of the keel and strip along the portholes. And inside there were not only the details cast with amazing quality, and again incomparable with our decal, but also glue, silver paint with a smell ... which seemed to me more beautiful than the fragrance of roses. And the box, and tubes of glue, and all this was some kind of ... "not ours" and a bit cosmic. Not a toy made according to the principle - “You, baby, will do for you,” but “a small piece of real art.” The prices of the models were from quite acceptable for me 60 kopecks for the MiG-21 and Saab J-35 Draken to completely unaffordable 3,50 and 4 rubles for the Tu-144, Trident and Vostok-1. Saab J-35 Draken on the scale of 1: 100 shocked me with the fact that I first saw a modern combat aircraft "from there", so unusual futuristic outlines, and even with such beautiful identification marks - three crowns in a blue circle. Of course, they could be painted camouflage, and they would be even more interesting, but I was just afraid of that. I did not know what colors they need to paint, and they were not for sale. That is why he preferred the GEDE, already painted in silver, or requiring a minimal additional paint from the modeller. It is true that even then I didn’t like that all the models were in different scales. SU-7, for example, MiG-15 and Tu-2 (scale 1: 72) were significantly larger than the MiG-21, that is, what was this “model line” such? I personally did not like it. And yet - the substrate (the base of the decal) was yellowish in color and eventually turned yellow even more. That is, on a white plastic, the numbers on the yellow substrate did not look at all.
MiG-21 from the company "Plastikart" - packaging.
I went to the store where they were sold, almost as if to work, so the saleswomen there already knew me and left the new items, because otherwise these models, unlike ours, flew away in the blink of an eye.
In 1968, I saw on sale three ships of the Ogonek factory at once: the Lenin nuclear powered icebreaker, the Potemkin battleship and the Aurora cruiser. I didn’t like the nuclear-powered rover, but the battleship and the cruiser bought right there, all the more so since excellent material was published in Modelist-Designer magazine about this ship with a color reversal, where Potemkin itself and the destroyer № 267 was given in the "Victorian livery", that is, the coloring with a black case, white superstructures and yellow pipes (or rather black and yellow!), And masts.
"Potemkin" ... packaging has changed ...
I didn’t paint them either, but I collected them with all the rigging, for which I pulled the ropes from the sprues from the same models, stretching them over the candle flame.
At the same time, “Ognakovskiy” tanks — T-34, KV-85, ISU-122, ISU-152 and EC-3 — appeared on the market. I assembled them all, but ... I was horrified at the “duplicity” of the T-34, and was surprised at the choice of other models. Why, for example, “Spark” perpetuated precisely KV-85 and EC-3, who did not play any role in the victory, but “missed” KV-1, EC-2, SU-76 and SU-152?
T-34 of the “Spark” plant - “model forever”
By this time, three of our models, the MiG-15, the MiG-17 and the MiG-19, appeared, but ... their scale was different from the scale of the Plastikart, and most importantly, the jointing on them was ... convex, and the stars were printed in outline. And again they differed from the model Yak-25. And I had to sandpaper all three models to bring to mind. Brought And what to paint? It was therefore necessary to turn the same Yak-25 into a Skipjack nuclear submarine with a rubber motor and a propeller from a tin can. I managed to paint it with a nitro-enamel in a black color, since the nitro-enamels in cans had already started to appear on the market. By the way, the "plastic" Mi-2 helicopter was not needed to be painted, as was the An-2 "corncob": the first was green-marsh color, and the second was all aluminum. By the way, today the “plastic” model of this aircraft is on the 2000 market. Rarity, however!
MiG-21 from the company "Plastikart" assembled looked like this.
Then ... then I had no time to do models for a long time, and when I moved from an old private house to a modern apartment in a high-rise building, I distributed those to the neighbors' boys. “A frivolous case for a certified teacher of history and a foreign language,” I thought then.
Then it turned out that, while working as a teacher in Pokrovo-Berezovskaya Secondary School, I took part in two All-Union toy contests, and in both my toys took prizes. And for the last time, in 1980, it was the tank “Berez for Freedom Comrade. Lenin. " It had a large scale, no less than 1: 12. I did not know how to make polystyrene rivets at that time and came up with an amusing technology: the tank itself was all plastic, but where there were rivets on it, it was covered with a sheet of thin brass riveted.
“I got my hands free”, and I prepared a whole series of models for the 1982 competition, where I was invited officially, since by that time I had already worked at the Penza Regional Station of Young Technicians and I had plenty of time. . "Collection" turned out just gorgeous! It was attended by many models from those that for some reason “missed” “Spark” - T-27 wedge, T-26 with two turrets, BT-7 rev 1939, T-34 / 76 mod.1942 ( with “Mighty Mouse Ears”), EC-2 and my pride T-35! In addition, from the details of the two models of the ship Oksidan, which was then made in Tbilisi, I made a model of the ship Tom Sawyer. With such models it was a sin not to take another prize, which I was given - the second, not the first, but the first got a plant with which it was impossible for the “private trader”. They gave me a letter from the Central Committee of the Komsomol and (to the delight of my wife!) A solid prize, and then invited to the editor of TM on the "round table" - to discuss the problems of large-scale modeling in the USSR.
By the way, the photos of all these models appeared on the article's screensaver in TM # 8 for 1984 a year, so you can see them there. It was said in many ways about this article, and people were greatly surprised why in a country where “all the best is given to children”, where patriotic education is paramount, children do not have what the “decaying West” has long ago, that is prefabricated models of their own, domestic, glorious and truly legendary technology, which would bring up in our children and pride in their country, and ... give them the basics of technical education.
Just all my tanks can be seen at the top of the page.
Even then, the TM editorial office timidly hinted that it was immoral to send bright and colorful boxes with a full set of parts and decals to the West, and ours to sell the same models in packaging cardboard, without the most important component, not to mention colors. However, even TM was unable to disclose the “secret” of Novo. I was afraid. Yes, this is understandable, 37-th from the memory was not yet eroded.
But what was written at the end of the article, how its result ... But the editors could not know that the solution to the problem can be found without problems: it is enough to replace state capitalism in the country with private-state one and then we will have everything. Including any models, both own, and from any country of the world.
Yes, but where did all of a sudden in the USSR take molds on the model of a “potential enemy” aircraft, including the same “Hunter”? And it was like this that back in 1932, two Englishmen, Charles Wilmot and Joe Mansour, created a company that began to produce prefabricated plastic aircraft models. At first it was cellulose cellulose, from 1955, polystyrene. Moreover, since 1963, the scale of 1: 72 has become standard for model aircraft that are not too large in size. By 1970, the Frog catalog (for some reason it was called so) included dozens of various models. And very rare models were produced, for example, “Avro Shackleton”, “Martin Baltimore” (and “Maryland”), “Vultee Vengeance”, “Curtiss Tomahawk”, “Blackburn Shark” (and “Skua”), “Bristol 138” and (Beaufort), our Soviet SB-2, Supermarine Attacker and (Scimitar), Armstrong Whitworth Whitley, Gloster Javelin and many, many others.
Typical Soviet-made model packaging for the domestic market (Fairey Swordfish, Donetsk Toy Factory).
But then for some reason the company went bankrupt and began selling equipment for the production of its models. The latest model "Frog" was released in 1976 year and at the same time, namely in the middle of 70-s, the majority of the molds were purchased by the Soviet Union (except for the models of German and Japanese aircraft - that is, the "enemies" that the Revell company bought ). Models of the Frog company began to be produced under the brand name Novo. We were no strangers to copy, so there is nothing to be surprised about. Moreover, they were exported in high-quality “elegant” packaging and with decals, but for internal use they were delivered in a simplified, without decals, and often even without specifying the name of the sample. They wrote on them, for example, like this: “Sea Fighter”, “Bomber”. Well, you can probably not even mention the quality of the cardboard packaging itself. Although the prices 20-30 kopecks were more than democratic. Most of the molds were given to the Donetsk Toy Factory, and the rest to other enterprises with injection molding machines in Moscow, Naro-Fominsk, Baku and Tashkent. Such models could be glued together, but the absence of decals and paints completely crossed out whatever their educational and educational significance.
German "Focke-Fulf-190". For some reason, the British were not afraid to produce models of enemy aircraft. And we, the winners, re-grind 80% of the German divisions on the Eastern Front ... for some reason we were afraid. Afraid of what? "Plastic airplanes"?
I must say that because of my work at the OblSyuT and participation in the All-Union Toy Contest, I constantly had to go to Moscow, and in the assortment room of the USSR Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and at the Toy Institute in Moscow (located in the old church not far from Kazan Station), and the Research Institute of Toys, and the Toy Museum in Zagorsk. In general, I was then thinking about linking my fate with this work, especially since just then my guys became winners of the All-Union "Cosmos" contest, their works received the first gold medals of the VDNKh of the USSR in Penza, so we were happy to meet in all these places , and my boys in all these “cabinets” and scientific research institutes — and I always tried to travel with them — were bombarded with boxes of “Novo” models, and packs of decals, literally lying there on the shelves. It was there that I was told this “story” from “Frog” and “Novo”, and she puzzled me greatly. So it was possible to sell quality models abroad for money, but the same quality models could not be sold to our children? Well, they would sell more, if not everyone would buy them, but at least someone could buy and collect them. Let not the children, well, at least adults. Everything is better than driving the same shit to our children ... But ... of course, nobody gave me the answer to this point of view. That is, there was a slogan "All the best for children," but, like many things, these were largely empty words. It is clear that the children of officials who had access to all import-export, as well as the staff of all these "cabinets" and specialized research institutes had all this, but what about the rest?
And this is how our assembly instructions looked like. Particularly impressive is the "receiver of air pressure."
By the way, when I visited all these research institutes and toy factories, I not only learned a lot of interesting things, but also heard a lot of wonderful aphorisms. So, the chief engineer of one of the large enterprises said to me like this: “Why produce new toys when new children are born every year?” And ... apparently, therefore, the absolutely terrible “fire” T-34 is being produced and is still being sold. In any case, I saw it in stores, only who buys them, when there are models of the Zvezda company, I just cannot imagine!
Box "Novo". In this form, the products on the equipment of the company "Frog" were sent to the "decaying West."
But this is a model of the aircraft from this box, glued, trimmed and photographed by its creator Anton Finitsky. But such beauty could not be done without good colors and ... decals !!!
But these are the Novo boxes interspersed with boxes for Soviet children. As they say - feel the difference!
However, the “toy” problems soon ceased to bother me, because I moved to work at the institute, and then in 1985, I entered graduate school. And it was there that rest for the sake of me and made my first model entirely from polystyrene and also internationally 1: 35. It was the "machine of advanced artillery observers" of the Federal Republic of Germany on the basis of the American BTR M113 according to projections from the magazine Foreign Military Review. I liked the model very much, and I made the second one, already according to the drawings in the Polish magazine “Small Modeling”, after the dissertation was defended. It was an M114 BTR - a reconnaissance vehicle with an 12,7-mm machine gun М2 on the commander's turret - the “machine” is small and very elegant. That's how I, in fact, returned to BTT-modeling. And then came the year 1987, which changed a lot.
To be continued ...
Miniature diorama "Matilda" on the bridge "from the" Zvezdinsky "set with a tank "Matilda" on a scale of 1: 100. The tank, as you can see, is branded, but everything else is the work of the author. I wanted to "have some fun" ... otherwise you write and write everything ...
Well, this is the above-mentioned “Hurricane” on the scale of 1: 144. I do not know how anyone, but I really liked this modelka. Well, you can do it in just half an hour. To photograph only difficult. We need a special lens, and it is quite expensive for such rare shots.
I got acquainted with scale modeling a long time ago, when I was in fourth grade in 1965. One boy brought a glued-up Yak-18 model to the class, I naturally liked it very much, and I wanted the same for myself. Wanted and ... went to the store, which he called me, went and bought. Of course, I used to drag him in the glue just scary, but ... even in that form, he caused my admiration, and most importantly - you could play with him. Then came the turn of the Mi-10K helicopter (crane helicopter), in which I really liked the propeller blades made of yellow plastic and the black legs of the spider-like chassis and the same wheels.
Gradually, I learned how to glue such models pretty clean, but I didn’t translate decals (decals) into the set, because they were terrible. And then in the same store I suddenly saw a completely different box with the model of the GDR An-24 aircraft manufactured by VEB Plasticart in the characteristic red coloring of the keel and strip along the portholes. And inside there were not only the details cast with amazing quality, and again incomparable with our decal, but also glue, silver paint with a smell ... which seemed to me more beautiful than the fragrance of roses. And the box, and tubes of glue, and all this was some kind of ... "not ours" and a bit cosmic. Not a toy made according to the principle - “You, baby, will do for you,” but “a small piece of real art.” The prices of the models were from quite acceptable for me 60 kopecks for the MiG-21 and Saab J-35 Draken to completely unaffordable 3,50 and 4 rubles for the Tu-144, Trident and Vostok-1. Saab J-35 Draken on the scale of 1: 100 shocked me with the fact that I first saw a modern combat aircraft "from there", so unusual futuristic outlines, and even with such beautiful identification marks - three crowns in a blue circle. Of course, they could be painted camouflage, and they would be even more interesting, but I was just afraid of that. I did not know what colors they need to paint, and they were not for sale. That is why he preferred the GEDE, already painted in silver, or requiring a minimal additional paint from the modeller. It is true that even then I didn’t like that all the models were in different scales. SU-7, for example, MiG-15 and Tu-2 (scale 1: 72) were significantly larger than the MiG-21, that is, what was this “model line” such? I personally did not like it. And yet - the substrate (the base of the decal) was yellowish in color and eventually turned yellow even more. That is, on a white plastic, the numbers on the yellow substrate did not look at all.
MiG-21 from the company "Plastikart" - packaging.
I went to the store where they were sold, almost as if to work, so the saleswomen there already knew me and left the new items, because otherwise these models, unlike ours, flew away in the blink of an eye.
In 1968, I saw on sale three ships of the Ogonek factory at once: the Lenin nuclear powered icebreaker, the Potemkin battleship and the Aurora cruiser. I didn’t like the nuclear-powered rover, but the battleship and the cruiser bought right there, all the more so since excellent material was published in Modelist-Designer magazine about this ship with a color reversal, where Potemkin itself and the destroyer № 267 was given in the "Victorian livery", that is, the coloring with a black case, white superstructures and yellow pipes (or rather black and yellow!), And masts.
"Potemkin" ... packaging has changed ...
I didn’t paint them either, but I collected them with all the rigging, for which I pulled the ropes from the sprues from the same models, stretching them over the candle flame.
At the same time, “Ognakovskiy” tanks — T-34, KV-85, ISU-122, ISU-152 and EC-3 — appeared on the market. I assembled them all, but ... I was horrified at the “duplicity” of the T-34, and was surprised at the choice of other models. Why, for example, “Spark” perpetuated precisely KV-85 and EC-3, who did not play any role in the victory, but “missed” KV-1, EC-2, SU-76 and SU-152?
T-34 of the “Spark” plant - “model forever”
By this time, three of our models, the MiG-15, the MiG-17 and the MiG-19, appeared, but ... their scale was different from the scale of the Plastikart, and most importantly, the jointing on them was ... convex, and the stars were printed in outline. And again they differed from the model Yak-25. And I had to sandpaper all three models to bring to mind. Brought And what to paint? It was therefore necessary to turn the same Yak-25 into a Skipjack nuclear submarine with a rubber motor and a propeller from a tin can. I managed to paint it with a nitro-enamel in a black color, since the nitro-enamels in cans had already started to appear on the market. By the way, the "plastic" Mi-2 helicopter was not needed to be painted, as was the An-2 "corncob": the first was green-marsh color, and the second was all aluminum. By the way, today the “plastic” model of this aircraft is on the 2000 market. Rarity, however!
MiG-21 from the company "Plastikart" assembled looked like this.
Then ... then I had no time to do models for a long time, and when I moved from an old private house to a modern apartment in a high-rise building, I distributed those to the neighbors' boys. “A frivolous case for a certified teacher of history and a foreign language,” I thought then.
Then it turned out that, while working as a teacher in Pokrovo-Berezovskaya Secondary School, I took part in two All-Union toy contests, and in both my toys took prizes. And for the last time, in 1980, it was the tank “Berez for Freedom Comrade. Lenin. " It had a large scale, no less than 1: 12. I did not know how to make polystyrene rivets at that time and came up with an amusing technology: the tank itself was all plastic, but where there were rivets on it, it was covered with a sheet of thin brass riveted.
“I got my hands free”, and I prepared a whole series of models for the 1982 competition, where I was invited officially, since by that time I had already worked at the Penza Regional Station of Young Technicians and I had plenty of time. . "Collection" turned out just gorgeous! It was attended by many models from those that for some reason “missed” “Spark” - T-27 wedge, T-26 with two turrets, BT-7 rev 1939, T-34 / 76 mod.1942 ( with “Mighty Mouse Ears”), EC-2 and my pride T-35! In addition, from the details of the two models of the ship Oksidan, which was then made in Tbilisi, I made a model of the ship Tom Sawyer. With such models it was a sin not to take another prize, which I was given - the second, not the first, but the first got a plant with which it was impossible for the “private trader”. They gave me a letter from the Central Committee of the Komsomol and (to the delight of my wife!) A solid prize, and then invited to the editor of TM on the "round table" - to discuss the problems of large-scale modeling in the USSR.
By the way, the photos of all these models appeared on the article's screensaver in TM # 8 for 1984 a year, so you can see them there. It was said in many ways about this article, and people were greatly surprised why in a country where “all the best is given to children”, where patriotic education is paramount, children do not have what the “decaying West” has long ago, that is prefabricated models of their own, domestic, glorious and truly legendary technology, which would bring up in our children and pride in their country, and ... give them the basics of technical education.
Just all my tanks can be seen at the top of the page.
Even then, the TM editorial office timidly hinted that it was immoral to send bright and colorful boxes with a full set of parts and decals to the West, and ours to sell the same models in packaging cardboard, without the most important component, not to mention colors. However, even TM was unable to disclose the “secret” of Novo. I was afraid. Yes, this is understandable, 37-th from the memory was not yet eroded.
But what was written at the end of the article, how its result ... But the editors could not know that the solution to the problem can be found without problems: it is enough to replace state capitalism in the country with private-state one and then we will have everything. Including any models, both own, and from any country of the world.
Yes, but where did all of a sudden in the USSR take molds on the model of a “potential enemy” aircraft, including the same “Hunter”? And it was like this that back in 1932, two Englishmen, Charles Wilmot and Joe Mansour, created a company that began to produce prefabricated plastic aircraft models. At first it was cellulose cellulose, from 1955, polystyrene. Moreover, since 1963, the scale of 1: 72 has become standard for model aircraft that are not too large in size. By 1970, the Frog catalog (for some reason it was called so) included dozens of various models. And very rare models were produced, for example, “Avro Shackleton”, “Martin Baltimore” (and “Maryland”), “Vultee Vengeance”, “Curtiss Tomahawk”, “Blackburn Shark” (and “Skua”), “Bristol 138” and (Beaufort), our Soviet SB-2, Supermarine Attacker and (Scimitar), Armstrong Whitworth Whitley, Gloster Javelin and many, many others.
Typical Soviet-made model packaging for the domestic market (Fairey Swordfish, Donetsk Toy Factory).
But then for some reason the company went bankrupt and began selling equipment for the production of its models. The latest model "Frog" was released in 1976 year and at the same time, namely in the middle of 70-s, the majority of the molds were purchased by the Soviet Union (except for the models of German and Japanese aircraft - that is, the "enemies" that the Revell company bought ). Models of the Frog company began to be produced under the brand name Novo. We were no strangers to copy, so there is nothing to be surprised about. Moreover, they were exported in high-quality “elegant” packaging and with decals, but for internal use they were delivered in a simplified, without decals, and often even without specifying the name of the sample. They wrote on them, for example, like this: “Sea Fighter”, “Bomber”. Well, you can probably not even mention the quality of the cardboard packaging itself. Although the prices 20-30 kopecks were more than democratic. Most of the molds were given to the Donetsk Toy Factory, and the rest to other enterprises with injection molding machines in Moscow, Naro-Fominsk, Baku and Tashkent. Such models could be glued together, but the absence of decals and paints completely crossed out whatever their educational and educational significance.
German "Focke-Fulf-190". For some reason, the British were not afraid to produce models of enemy aircraft. And we, the winners, re-grind 80% of the German divisions on the Eastern Front ... for some reason we were afraid. Afraid of what? "Plastic airplanes"?
I must say that because of my work at the OblSyuT and participation in the All-Union Toy Contest, I constantly had to go to Moscow, and in the assortment room of the USSR Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and at the Toy Institute in Moscow (located in the old church not far from Kazan Station), and the Research Institute of Toys, and the Toy Museum in Zagorsk. In general, I was then thinking about linking my fate with this work, especially since just then my guys became winners of the All-Union "Cosmos" contest, their works received the first gold medals of the VDNKh of the USSR in Penza, so we were happy to meet in all these places , and my boys in all these “cabinets” and scientific research institutes — and I always tried to travel with them — were bombarded with boxes of “Novo” models, and packs of decals, literally lying there on the shelves. It was there that I was told this “story” from “Frog” and “Novo”, and she puzzled me greatly. So it was possible to sell quality models abroad for money, but the same quality models could not be sold to our children? Well, they would sell more, if not everyone would buy them, but at least someone could buy and collect them. Let not the children, well, at least adults. Everything is better than driving the same shit to our children ... But ... of course, nobody gave me the answer to this point of view. That is, there was a slogan "All the best for children," but, like many things, these were largely empty words. It is clear that the children of officials who had access to all import-export, as well as the staff of all these "cabinets" and specialized research institutes had all this, but what about the rest?
And this is how our assembly instructions looked like. Particularly impressive is the "receiver of air pressure."
By the way, when I visited all these research institutes and toy factories, I not only learned a lot of interesting things, but also heard a lot of wonderful aphorisms. So, the chief engineer of one of the large enterprises said to me like this: “Why produce new toys when new children are born every year?” And ... apparently, therefore, the absolutely terrible “fire” T-34 is being produced and is still being sold. In any case, I saw it in stores, only who buys them, when there are models of the Zvezda company, I just cannot imagine!
Box "Novo". In this form, the products on the equipment of the company "Frog" were sent to the "decaying West."
But this is a model of the aircraft from this box, glued, trimmed and photographed by its creator Anton Finitsky. But such beauty could not be done without good colors and ... decals !!!
But these are the Novo boxes interspersed with boxes for Soviet children. As they say - feel the difference!
However, the “toy” problems soon ceased to bother me, because I moved to work at the institute, and then in 1985, I entered graduate school. And it was there that rest for the sake of me and made my first model entirely from polystyrene and also internationally 1: 35. It was the "machine of advanced artillery observers" of the Federal Republic of Germany on the basis of the American BTR M113 according to projections from the magazine Foreign Military Review. I liked the model very much, and I made the second one, already according to the drawings in the Polish magazine “Small Modeling”, after the dissertation was defended. It was an M114 BTR - a reconnaissance vehicle with an 12,7-mm machine gun М2 on the commander's turret - the “machine” is small and very elegant. That's how I, in fact, returned to BTT-modeling. And then came the year 1987, which changed a lot.
To be continued ...
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