gorby
Love it. 😄
Great idea. 👍

Clair Greenwood
Oh I simply must copy your work here, thats great !!

Neuling
Nice idea! Is the tractor really so big compared to the MBT ?

Jakko ‌
You had me wondering, so I went and looked it up. Going by the markings (I'm not a tractor expert 🙂) this is a John Deere 9530, which is 24.0 feet long (veritread.com/specs/..tors/john-deere/9530), or in real-world units: 7.3 metres. A T-72 is 6.7 to 6.9 metres long without the gun. In other words: the hull is only slightly shorter than the tractor overall. Yet in the photos of the model, it seems to be only about two-thirds the length. Is the tractor 1:24 scale?

William Banker Автор
Thanks for all the kind comments
It was for a Ukrainian fund raising event
The John Deere Tractor is an off the shelf metal toy that I just weathered up
Regarding scale? I think it's 1/16th model 9320.... I didn't spend a lot of time looking for a scale model for the tractor as I had to do several other builds for the fund raiser.... This was the closest I could find of a picture I had seen online of a Ukrainian farmer using this model tractor to drag away an abandoned T-72 during the early days of the war

Neuling
🙂

Rui S
SLAVA UKRAINE 👍

William Banker Автор
OK....I went back through my purchase records and apparently this is a 1/32 scale
https://ebay.com/itm/3562571..15H0D_JEvB0PYoYaAoD7EALw_wcB

Jakko ‌
Easiest way to figure it out would to be measure the length of the model and divide 7.3 metres by it 🙂

William Banker Автор
I'd do that --- but it's gone --- in a donor's hands right now over 300 miles from me. I'm pretty sure it's the 1/32 scale version of the toy. I remember wanting to get as close to 1/35 as I could and I picked one off Ebay. That said i was surprised at the size. Remember how low to the ground is Soviet armor (by design and that is why their crewman were recruited from small men --- typically under 5'7" when possible --- and the tractor in height is HUGE. If you have ever been next to one you can appreciated why they have the ladder to get up into the cab

Clair Greenwood
Yeah being a small guy has its perks, Im about 5'5 and had all kinds of room to get comfy in an Abrams many years ago, Im sure my old man beer belly would get in the way these days 😛 LOL