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Tango0108 Aug 2015 11:16 p.m. PST

"In the past I have written numerous reviews of T-34/85 kits of different scales. This is the first time I'm doing a T-34/76. For a very quick and abbreviated historical overview of the T-34, please refer to my review of Warlord's T-34/85 kit.


The model I got here is a T-34/76 with UZTM turret. By the summer of 1942 the German army was likely to take Stalingrad. At the time Stalingrad Tractor Plant was the main producer of T-34 tanks in the Soviet Union. The impending loss of this manufacturing site, along with production of tanks, especially turrets, not quite taking up pace at the more Eastern plants led State Defense Committee (who during the war were in charge of pretty much everything), ordered Ural Heavy Machinery Plant (UZTM, or "Uralmash") to produce twice the number of T-34 turrets…"

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