I've always had a soft spot for early war Soviet tanks and when I seen that Milicast* done this kit I had a little idea of adding it to a scene based on the prippet marshes.

PARTS AND CONSTRUCTION
There are only a handful of parts to this kit and a bit of flash was present around the lower wheels that needed some time to clean up but on a whole the parts were sound although I decided to replace the main gun barrel and machine gun with wire. The kit comes with both exhaustvariants of and the later style wheels, both hatches can be left open if wished which is a nice touch on such a small vehicle. I decided just to keep the turret hatch open.

PAINTING
I base coated the kit in a dark green and progressively lightened this shade with green and sand. I picked out details such as wheels, radiator, tracks then gave the kit a wash of burnt umber and black in areas, once it was dry I then dry brushed in very light green and then painted on the markings, once the kit was added to the base to finish off I used pastels around the lower hull and track as well as some pencil on worn surface.

BASEWORK
This was done with my usual way with white glue and polyfila with little rocks added then sprayed various browns then static grass added with some heavier grass added around a few little marsh areas (these were picked out in various colours and gloss varnish)