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I am finally getting around to painting up the new figs I bought including a set of T-34s. However I need to know where these go;

http://medievalist.org/microarmour/ma.html

They look like hatches of some sort but I can't seem to figure out where to put them. Any help is much appreciated.

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tanker wrote:I am finally getting around to painting up the new figs I bought including a set of T-34s. However I need to know where these go;

http://medievalist.org/microarmour/ma.html

They look like hatches of some sort but I can't seem to figure out where to put them. Any help is much appreciated.

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...those are the late model T34/43 cupolas. One goes over the port side hatch on the turret. The hatch (with 2 hinges) towards the rear and the sight ( the round deal)forward...You don't need to put them on,just if you want to upgrade. If you are a historical purist not before mid 1943.

As JB noted, an accessory but not a necessity. T-34s with cupolas were never actually common, there are pictures of T-34s without cupolas in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Germany itself (so all 1945 timeframe).

Personally, I put the cupolas on a subset of my T-34s, and use them to help mark the platoon and company command tanks.

(SHHH! Don't tell CG Erickson!)

Thanks JB and MK1. And don't worry Mk1, your secret is safe with me.

Tanker

But not me!