Friday, 11 January 2013

T50

Originally finished in 'winter' camo, I recently repainted this T-50 light tank in a more conventional hue.  The model is an old (early 1990s) Red Star resin kit.
The T-50 was intended to replace the T-26 series and featured a number of improvements in running gear and armour layout.  As war nearer, however, some clever comrade noticed that it cost nearly as much to produce a T-50 as it did to make one of the new T-34 medium tanks.  Which certainly explains why you may not have seen one before!
I did say it was a light tank - here it is next to an Armourfast T-34.

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6 comments:

  1. Don M12 January 2013 at 00:43

    And here I was thinking that cost had no place in the great workers paradise! Capitalism is indeed insidious...hehehe

    Nice looking tank, and I must admit to not seeing this one before.

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  2. Pete.12 January 2013 at 03:57

    Nice- a blocky little fella isn't he. IIRC they saw a fair bit of action around Lennigrad. Pretty sure the Finns captured some....

    Cheers,

    Pete.

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  3. Arquinsiel12 January 2013 at 05:50

    I bloody well hate these things due to their "totally historically accurate" portrayal in World of Tanks. Nice little transitional tank between the T-26 and T-34, but I still hate them so....

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  4. Tim Gow12 January 2013 at 09:34

    Don M
    Clearly management accountancy was alive and well in the USSR!

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  5. Tim Gow12 January 2013 at 09:38

    Pete
    The Finns did indeed capture at least one : http://www.jaegerplatoon.net/T50_1.jpg

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  6. Tim Gow12 January 2013 at 09:40

    Arquinsiel
    Sorry to hear it make your blood boil - I always thought it was a pretty inoffensive little thing. What is world of tanks?

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