I’m a bit late on the thread, but here it is. I finnished one track yesterday (took me a week to do the kit one), I’m working on multiple sub assembled parts and I started doing the Z on my ERA plates after painting them with the roadwheels in green using a airbrush. I intend to mask part of the Z in green and put a ukrainian flag on the front plate with “slava ukraini” on it.
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Hello, an update on my build: I did the central stowage bin, the smoke grenade lanchers, the suspension, the shtora 1 and worked on the suspension and the tracks. It was a bit complicated to get around the shtora 1 support and I wish there was more views on the smoke grenade launchers in the instruction because I had to rely on pics of the real one to see where to place the left smoke grenade launcher.
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I finnished the second set of tracks today and started the engine this week. I expect the tracks to take longer than a few weeks and I feel like I had less difficulties on the second set.
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Progressed on the turret. I added details and sanded the joint of the gun. I might start painting it this week.
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Here’s the progress on my T90A paint job. I did the primer for the main parts and I assembled the putin figure on his bear too.
No idea what this part for the putin figure is, for some reason, meng doesn’t give instruction to build the figure.
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Kind of funny that now i have taken the mantle of building the exact same model you’ve been working on, minus the Bear-Riding Putin. 
I am thinking of also making my build as a Ukrainian Captured vehicle. 
I use oryx for my inspiration for this what if. No idea of what color to use for a 2023 putin or the bear since meng doesn’t indicate them.
Well? To be accurate, the bear would be a Far Eastern Brown Bear (Kamchatka Brown Bear)
As for Putin, Just paint him with some Russian Army modern camouflage pants and a brown leather belt.
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Ok, still unsure about putin skin and hair. I’ll have to see how to do the blood splatter too (he and the bear will have that on them to represent putin crimes/agression toward its neighbors).
I would go with pale light skin tone with greyish hair. hands and boot soles covered in blood; pants stained in blood spatter. I would us Tamiya Clear Red for the blood.
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Ok, I also want to cover the torso. The eyes will be the most difficult part as well as the details, my shaky hand don’t help.
I am in the same predicament as you are on painting eyes on 1/35 figures. you could use some milliput and fashion a shirt for him and paint it in white an blue stripes, like the typical Russian military shirt.
I’m keeping the torso since it’s in the meme. I do intend to use milliput to modify my heller soleil royal tho. Would’ve been better if meng did the instruction on the figure.
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with my shaky hands, unsure I’d do a verry good job with the lines (it doesn’t help with the small parts either). My figure got less hair too.
It’s been a while but I did progressed on my T90. I painted the ERA plates using drybush for the Z (doing the same for the flag and the green masking some of the Z). I did some work on the engine as well and started painting the fuel tanks
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It’s been a while since I haven’t posted a update but here’s what it look like now. I’m doing the ukrainian flags on the side skirts and did the primer for the bear.
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Finally posting the progress I did on this one. I added the roadwheels and the engine. I started the track (I intend to use a cheap version of nightshift method) and I’m fixing the paint on my turret. I broked 2 parts on the hull rear, I’ll put them back after placing the upper hull.
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