We are back to work. First task in this year - five vehicles for IDELF 2008 historical exposition. For this exposition used 6 vehicles from museum: T-26 mod.1939, T-30, T-70, BA-3M, T-38 and ASU-57 first prototype. All vehicles in running condition. T-30 is been ready: after full-scale quality repaint in spring 2007 he don't need new repaint. We have very limited time, and can use only modern KhV green paint, in fact, quality of this psint is low. need repaint vehicles in future anyway.
Works started in 2 august, ended in 16 august. Results:
T-26 Mod.1939, repainted as a tank from belorussian front, summer 1941. Have 3-tone camo.
T-38, have basical markins of Red Army tanks, they used from 1932 to 1938. Painted as a tank from military parade, Moscow, 1 May 1937. Markings mean: solid red stripe - first batallion; blue dotted line - fourth company; blue square - fourth platoon (fourth - only for parade); white number 5 - number of vehicle in parade line (white number - for parade only)
T-70, original markings of this tank. Serial number: 2 - mean 1942, 09 - september; 155 - 155 produced vehicle in this month.
BA-3M, typical prewar markings of Red Army tanks and armored vehicles. Markings mean: solid white stripe - second batallion; red dotted line - first company; white square - second platoon; white number 4 - number of vehicle in parade line (white number - for parade only)
ASU-57 prototype, 1949. Have soviet ariborne emblems on the sides of hull.
Very nice work! Those vehicules looks like a fun ride. How long did it took you and your team to restore those tanks? Or you guys did the painting only for the show?
We are not restoration team. Ours work - repaint of Kubinka tank museum exhibits. From fall 2007 we also start to repaint T-34 tank from T-34 tank museum. In fact, this repaint more looks like restoration - need to repaint all tank pieces.
This repaint not for show - it's for museum ;)