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NOV/DEC. 2016 •
£6.50 UK $15.99
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MENG MODELS T-72B3 MBT
T-72
GGED
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CONTENTS
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T-72B3
The Editor builds Meng’s mean MBT
10
Great Dane
Chris Jerrett converts Tamiya’s Leopard with help from Accurate Armour.
18
Meng’s Most Liked
This year’s on-line contest winners.
20
M10 out of 10
Fabio Sacchi strives for an accurate M10 in 1:35.
30
Panzerkampfwagen IV Part 9
The Editor continues detailing Trumpeter’s 1:16 kit.
36
Mud Shark Merkava
Rafel Bulanda gets well and truely stuck with his vignette.
44
Keeping Track
New releases.
56
The Calm After The Storm
Gunnar Baeumer’s 1:48 Whirlwind.
Meng AFV Modeller is published Bimonthly by
AFV Modeller ltd
Old Stables
East Moor
Stannington
Northumberland
NE61 6ES
Tel: 01670 823648
Fax: 01670 820274
Editor and Designer: David Parker
email: david@mengafvmodeller.com
Deputy Editor: Mark Neville
email: mark@mengafvmodeller.com
Sales Director: Keith Smith
email: keith@mengafvmodeller.com
Proof Reading: Jim Chandler
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B3
The B3 is Russia’s most up to date variant of the 40 year old T-72 design which
entered service in 2012. The new Meng Models kit at first glance looks very similar to
their existing T-90 and indeed some sprues have been shared like running gear and
upper and lower hull. However the vast majority is new and the kit comes with
photoetched grilles, wheel painting mask, a jig to align the suspension, nylon tow
rope, clear moulded lenses and periscopes and flexible plastic sprue for the mantlet
cover and fuel drum hoses. The only dilemma the kit presented was the choice of a
subject vehicle. The B3 has featured in the Tank Biathlon (a competition for tank
performance) featuring some very colourful camouflage and one of those schemes is
offered in the choice of 5 schemes offered by the kit. A search of Google images for
the tank brought up several images of the tank being used by pro-Russian forces in
the conflict in Ukraine. Several of these tanks featured large sprayed slogans down
the skirts which makes them distinctive and also offered the sort of challenge that I
relish, and so with a subject chosen it was on with the assembly.
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MENG MODELS T-72B3 MBT MODELLED BY DAVID PARKER
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