Zvezda 2025

Hello everyone!
We are working on a drawing for the box of our new model BMP-3 in 1/72!
We accept your comments!Hello everyone!
We are working on a drawing for the box of our new model BMP-3 in 1/72!
We accept your comments!

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Hi Yuri,
any idea when the MT-LB will be released? I prefer Zvezda over Trumpeter, their UAZ-469 kit is waaaaaay better than Trumpeter.

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Alas, we will find out only on the eve of release.
I want MT-LB myself, but I’m not buying it - I’m waiting. Let’s wait together.

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Only with impatience… I need a prime mover for my MT-12 gun. :grin:

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"We continue our story about our new model of the Russian infantry fighting vehicle BMP-3 in 1/72!

Today we want to show you 3D renders of the new product!"

Have they completely gone to 1/72 scale?!

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They have a 1/35th Dodge WC54 Ambulance on the cards, (not a re-pop)

I got today their 2S1 Gvozdika kit. Definitly superior to the Trumpeter release.

Thank you Yuri for all this, and all your other posts - especially the guided tours of Russian museums few if any of us will ever be able to visit. While I’ve no doubt we’d disagree on other matters, we’re all here because of our shared interest in military hardware and you’ve provided major additions to our knowledge.

I have a special request – have you ever seen an example of the ZIS 42 half-track? I built this Eastern Express 1:35 model (back-dating it to a mid-Patriotic War version from the later version as supplied) years ago and have never been able to compare it to the real 1:1 version for accuracy. Surprising Zvezda haven’t supplied it (?) …

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Thank you for your kind words. I plan to continue excursions to museums. I also broadcast these topics to a Russian audience, but I only translate reports on really big museums into English. Like the sweetest thing.
I also have no doubts about the different approaches to history and modern events. It’s great that we know something of them. This doesn’t happen as often as we would like.
There are other places to discuss other topics. If we start discussing our health, utilities and keeping pets here, there will be no room left for modeling.
I am happy to help you, especially since I have personal photos of this car. The only copy is in the Moscow “Motors of War” museum, which I plan to show you this year. I was already going to do this, but I found that many of the photos were of poor quality. I need to re-photograph them.

PS I also had this model, but due to relocation I had to leave it behind.

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That is a really neat vehicle.

Thanks so much Yuri! And from what you say the only example in existence? No wonder I couldn’t find photos of it. I think this is the later version, one of the few things I remember is that the battery on the early version sat on the front mudguard under the driver’s door, here it’s missing. And the cab had a canvas cover on the early version. The other alteration I remember is the early version had very narrow vertical wooden panels on both doors, I can’t quite see if the real thing has narrow or broad panels (?)

The front grille-guard looks very similar to those on American trucks, although it seems to fit perfectly well. Perhaps another later addition. And I think my canvas top looks more convincing!

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