T-72 Build Tread (for our Colleagues abroad)

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The brother of prairie - Kalmyk.

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The brother of prairie - Kalmyk.

Heh!
Well, I think our foreign colleagues will not understand this joke. As you are to know Russian Poetry...

And as the original says: "... and brother of steppe - Kalmyk!"

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Main road wheels - done out of plastic with rubber tires. Quite good.

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More about turret assembling...

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T72 and ZTZ (left) main road wheels compare...
ZTZ quality is worse.

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Front panel and cover.

Again to stress, quality of mould is very good.

You can easily install HL standard rotation unit in side as well.

And first track is ready.

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These parts are very good in quality but you have to be careful. Choose screw-driver carefully.

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OK, continue our "picking"...

Again quality of the mould is very good, but assembling itself is not up to 100% convenient.

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Experiments and comparison continues...

Big turret rotation ring. I have compared it with ZTZ-99 - it is smaller (black is for ZTZ; green is for T72) in diameter.

Placing as it is...

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Fixing the standard DeA recoil and IR emitter. Should say that the quality is very good and the final pic shows that upon pressing on the main gun upper mask cover lays smoothly on its place, covering the recoil unit...