M-1A2+T-64+T-80 = T-83

[Taiidantomcat]

 Bad math, but also this! I was originally planning to put this on the Armorama What If GB but it fell well behind schedule, and I didn't even post a single pic!  I love the T-80 and T-64 and the Abrams of course so this is a natural for me. My backstory is that a frustrated Soviet tank designer looks at the new American Abrams and the old T-34 and realizes that the Russians have moved too far away from their roots of sloped armor. So a with a little copying (borrowing ) Of the Abrams style with soviet design results in the T-83:












this is supposed to represent an early version of the T-83, with new Kontakt 5 Reactive armor and side skirts retrofitted. The majority of Russian pieces are from a DML T-80U kit I got when I was 11(!) and has been scrapped along with removing the paint for spares. T-64 road wheels, sanded and adjusted to fit the abrams hull (All 28 of them  ) T-64 Kontakt 5 from SP designs. There are some Challenger and T-72 pieces there as well too.
Still a lot of work to do, but finally to phase where I can show something!

[Army of One]

This looks very promising........any idea on a colour scheme yet...??

[ChernayaAkula]

  Brilliant! 
A very, very cool design.

[Joe C-P]

All hail the glorious Soviet design bureaus! It is well known that the Americanski M-1 was actually a copy of this great achievement of our superior engineering.

Commissar Iosef R

[philp]

This looks very promising........any idea on a colour scheme yet...??

Something Arabic or African would look cool.

[Taiidantomcat]

I Have been wavering on schemes... I have a weird "brain disconnect function," where If I don't know how I want to paint it at the end I quit working on it. Even though through a build i change my mind back and forth about a dozen times. I have been trying not to think of it on this build. I don't want to get ahead of myself

I saw a weird mustard/green/red brown scheme the soviet used for an exercise once



and there is the old soviet standby the 3 tone



But this is a whiff, which means I should not be bound on schemes... I will keep an eye out (feel free to post suggestions too)

Thanks for all the kind words!!

[GTX]

Looks a bit like the Black Eagle tank:



Regards,

Greg

[saintkatanalegacy]

^yep, thinking the same

[Captain Canada]

Very cool idea. Looks great with the extra armour.

[jsport]

Also a great model for displaying technical creativity.