| BrockLanders | 05 Jul 2019 5:13 p.m. PST |
Does anyone know what color a T-34 engine and associated components as well as the interior engine compartment would be? Same as the exterior color? Metallic/silverish? I'm building a 1/48 scale T-34/76 with a fully detailed interior to be a destroyed vehicle and would like to be as accurate as possible with colors |
| Thresher01 | 05 Jul 2019 8:49 p.m. PST |
Can't really say I've ever seen photos of that, or read about it. Russian green seems like a logical choice, from an efficiency perspective, e.g. one paint for the whole vehicle. Then again, interiors of tanks are frequently painted white, so……. Might spend a little time trolling sites with photos of Russian/Soviet armor that show details like engines and the like, for a hint. Most "destroyed" vehicles tend to be quite blackened, and/or blackened and rusted too. |
| dale mcroberts | 05 Jul 2019 11:11 p.m. PST |
The link below shows a guy building a 1/16 T34. Lots of photos of the internals/engine etc. link |
| Thresher01 | 06 Jul 2019 12:01 a.m. PST |
Looks like a mix of green and metal (rusted metal), from some of these pics: link |
 x42brown  | 06 Jul 2019 2:26 a.m. PST |
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| Cerdic | 06 Jul 2019 7:16 a.m. PST |
The engine and ancillaries will be the same as every other engine that isn't brand new – black and covered in crud…. |
| Walking Sailor | 06 Jul 2019 7:38 a.m. PST |
"T-34 Mythical Weapon" has a few color pictures in the back. The fighting compartment (and the inside of hatches) is a bright white. The engine compartment appears grey, probably an unpainted dull steel. Unfortunately, the engine itself is freshly sandblasted. Elsewhere I have seen red primer (or rust?, curious on an aluminum block). The valve covers retain their red color. They should be stamped steel and hold the primer. Properly priming aluminum requires special etching primer otherwise it doesn't hold. All of this is moot.
Thresher01 is right: soot blackened if shot down.
Cerdic is also right for a runner.
But that crud (oil and dirt drawn in by the cooling fan) settles on the bottom and acts as a wicked oil fire when lit. |
| Thresher01 | 06 Jul 2019 8:07 a.m. PST |
Yea, lots and lots of dust too, since I imagine no crews bothered to steam clean their engines when they had time off. |
| Asteroid X | 06 Jul 2019 9:56 a.m. PST |
The crews may not have cleaned the engines when they had time off, but if any mechanic was working on it they would have to clean some. It would depend, also, on how good the seals/gaskets were and if any oil leaks were present as to how dirty it would be. |
| pmwalt | 07 Jul 2019 2:29 p.m. PST |
I was going to double tap what x42brown posted … probably you're best bet |
