The DML 1/72 T-34-85
I bought the DML T-34-85 kit in 1/72 scale the other day. This is the first 1/72 scale kit I've bought in...well, a long time. I remember building the old Airfix kits in the 1970s, and things have changed a lot.
The T-34-85 is simply a beautiful kit....till you get to the roadwheels. Now, one thing I loved about the roadwheels is, they have no seam to sand off. Here at AMPS Albany we've been trying, so far without success, to recruit a seam bitch into the group - someone whose sole function is sanding seams so the rest of us can get on with it.
Each of the wheels on the T-34-85 has 12 holes in it. They need to be drilled out. At first I thought, well, OK, it's a 1/72 kit, stuff happens. But then I remembered, this is the company that can drill out the MG barrels on 1/35 weapons ! These are the wackos who hollow out the muzzles and *sights* on German rifles in 1/35th scale (so far no Allied weapons are this good). Why can't they drill out these damn road wheel holes? Compared to German rifle muzzles, they're huge ! I urge you to write your Congress-person (or dictator if you live in that kind of country) and DEMAND that DML address this problem.
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