{"id":648,"date":"2012-01-22T15:48:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T20:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/?p=648"},"modified":"2012-01-22T15:48:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T20:48:59","slug":"trumpeter-pt-76-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"Trumpeter PT-76 part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so this post is not going to be about Open Source or software. This is going to be about scale modeling and particularly about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trumpeter-china.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trumpeter<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PT-76\" target+\"_blank\">PT-76<\/a> that was given to me as a birthday gift. Below is the picture.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/trumpeter1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/trumpeter1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"PT-76 in the box\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/trumpeter1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/trumpeter1-1024x771.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI must admit this is the first Trumpeter kit I have to build and looking at the kit and the way its been going so far I must say its high quality. Not as good as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tamiya.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tamiya<\/a>, but I would score it with an eight out of ten. Below is a picture of the components of the kit.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/trumpeter2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/trumpeter2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pt-76 in the box\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/trumpeter2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/trumpeter2-1024x771.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI think this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perthmilitarymodelling.com\/reviews\/vehicles\/trumpeter\/tr00379.html\" target=\"_blank\">page<\/a> gives a good description of the kit.<\/p>\n<p>I will probably paint the kit olive green and try to add some weathering to it together with some mud on the tracks. I will probably use Tamiya paints. I already painted a T-62 with it and the results were quite good.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAnd this is the last picture. The tracks mounted and sanded ready to be added unto the tank. Not much sanding was needed for the trackss and I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.testors.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Testors<\/a> glue for it.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/trumpeter31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/trumpeter31-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"pt-76 tracks\" title=\"pt-76 tracks\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/trumpeter31-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/trumpeter31-1024x771.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nForgive the quality of some pictures, they were taken with my cellphone camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so this post is not going to be about Open Source or software. This is going to be about scale modeling and particularly about Trumpeter PT-76 that was given to me as a birthday gift. Below is the picture. I must admit this is the first Trumpeter kit I have to build and looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[58],"tags":[60,59],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTQgt-as","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xavignu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}