Thoughts on replicating these Soviet weld seams

Very nice ! Once you get used to this technique you’ll start noticing missing weld seams everywhere.

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Weld beads can be fun, kind of like individual track links.

Re small chisels: I use cheap jeweler’s screwdrivers, with the blades sharpened, rounded or otherwise shaped as both chisels and for doing weld beads in certain ways.

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Im surprised that someone doesnt make a weld bead making tool to sell-there are tools for about everything else in the hobby.

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Thank you.

I started out on this kit noticing a couple small gaps and thought that’s fine, I noticed on the real deal those are welds so I’ll learn how to make welds and fill the gaps.

This ballooned into noticing missing welds every where lol! So I now I have a ton of welds to add to this kit! Almost every step has missing welds

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And down the rabbit hole you go! :grin:

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