Saturday, November 24, 2012

T-26 design, almost ready

This is the overall look of our T-26 tank after the designing desk. Naturally, it can't be taken as an ultimate model yet, because opinions and suggestions of both mould maker and plastic factory manager must be heard before --and some will likely mean going back to desk. But it allows us to consider the designing work as nearly finished, very close to a (happy) end.

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Your thoughts?

9 comments:

ColKillgore said...

It is looking good. I want a couple T-26s in 28m/1'56th for interwar and back of beyond gaming.

ColKG

Soldadets said...

Must admit that 1:56th scale demand is steadily growing --or that you're the most insistent people in world? :D :D :D

--Just an innocent joke. I'm committed to producing all this in your scale too.

Lluís

ColKillgore said...

I plan to use the T-26 for the Spanish Civil War, the Chinese Civil War, Second Sino-Japanese war and WWII. It was also used by the Finnish in their continuation war and capturd versions were used by the Germans, Romanians, and Hungarians. I already have a 28mm Warlord era Chinese army and a 28mm Japanese army but I only have a Ha go tank for the Japanese. The Chinese need a T-26 or two to back them up.

ColKG

Soldadets said...

True, and Inter-wars what-if lovers shouldn't neglect that T-26 A&B filled the ranks of Turkish armoured forces too.

Anonymous said...

Looking forward to see a quickbuild 1/72 T26. The track quality / detail will be decisive for the success of this kit.

Vip said...

I hope they'll also come with Chinese decals!

Soldadets said...

As for the model ultimate detail, I feel wuite optimistic :)

As for the decals it will come with, this time we shall include a sheet containing Spanish (both sides), Soviet and Turkish markings --not Chinese.

You won't be deceived, however, because we shall also sell separately the Pz I-A decalsheet --which does include Chinese markings, as you know.

Anonymous said...

Is there any chance of getting Finnish decals? :)

Soldadets said...

Hi [anonymous],

To be honest, only at the price of suppressing any of those listed above :(

After a first thought, Soviet markings might be suppressed to make room to the Finnish ones, provided those are the most easy to find elsewhere.

A second option might be suppressing the Nationalist Spanish markings --and leaving them for an eventually upcoming BT-5.

However, that would mean to add a 5th colour to the set (blue), besides of red, yellow, purple and white. That would undoubtedly make the printing more expensive.

Your thoughts?