The quality of the casting is excellent with no blemishes and very fine details included on the parts such as fine weld seams and surface wiring plus other small details on the turret as well as nice canvas rendering on the mantlet cover. The single piece solid turret has separate Commander’s cupola, gun mantlet with additional co-ax MG barrel plus the two side add on armour plates.
#3514 2A70 100mm barrel, 2A72 30mm barrel |
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#3544 Systems 902A/B "Tucha" | #3545 Radio Antenna pot |
The brass smoke grenade pots fit to their mountings on the side armour plates after you drill out the small locating holes in the mounts while the antenna pots already have locating holes included in the turret side mountings.
No instructions are included but the location of the parts is fairly straightforward and you can use the Skif kit instructions as a guide. If you want some additional reference then two articles by Steven Zaloga in Military Modelling Magazine Vol.28 No.19 and Vol.29 No.1 have a detailed build of the Skif kit and excellent reference pics of the real thing.
Conclusion:
This is an excellent replacement turret with very fine details with the inclusion
of the metal parts to add to the detail and will certainly enhance the Skif kit.
Highly recommended.
Thanks to Dmitriy from Model Point US for the review sample.
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