1:48 115 mm Ammunition for T-62

The real subject

The Soviet T-62 tank carried a 115 mm smoothbore gun and was among the first series tanks with this barrel design. Ammunition of this caliber is therefore characteristic of the T-62, and in a scene it should not be put together with the later types of 125 mm caliber. Yet it is the ammunition that a diorama with a tank tends to lack if it is to look like a place of work and not like a plinth under a model.

What the set contains

The set brings separate rounds of 115 mm caliber reduced to 1:48 scale. Military equipment is less common in this scale than in 1:35, and small accessories for it are correspondingly harder to come by. You will use the rounds during a resupply beside the vehicle, with figures passing pieces out of a crate, or inside the model if you have built it with its hatches open.

Building and painting tips

• Paint the parts before you seat them, because a brush will no longer get between the finished parts of the scene.
• Check the finish against a photograph of the real thing, because the individual kinds of ammunition differ.
• Thinned paint in two light coats keeps the shapes better than one heavy one.
• Degrease the parts in lukewarm soapy water before painting and let them dry.
• Attach them in the scene with a small drop of cyanoacrylate glue and hold them with tweezers.

Who it is for

The accessory suits modelers who build military scenes in 1:48 scale and want to show the crew at work beside a tank. The package contains ammunition only. The tank model, figures, crates, the base, glue and paints are not part of it, unless stated otherwise.