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2A20 (U5TS) 115mm Barrel
T-62

#MP 3515
Review by Terry Ashley

Tamiya
This replacement barrel is designed for the Tamiya T-62 kit (No.35108).

The barrel is finely turned in three pieces with the muzzle drilled out by about 10mm and the fit of the segments is to precise tolerances. There should also be a fine weld seam down the right side of the fume extractor and four bolt heads on the face which can easily be added using your favourite method, I used a length of thin sprue attached with cyanoacrylate and then softened with Tenax-7R to add the weld texture with the head of a small screwdriver. Note the orientation of the weld seam to the four bolts when fitting the barrel together.

Unassembled barrel
Modelpoint
Weld seam and bolts added to barrel
Modelpoint
Weld seam and bolt heads on fume extractor
Modelpoint

Fitting to the Tamiya kit:
The barrel fits directly into the Tamiya mantlet (part C37) but you will need to drill out a 5mm hole in the mantlet to accept the barrel shaft. If you attach the large barrel collar only it is possible to add the full barrel at any time which may help during the kit assembly?

Assembled barrel in Tamiya kit mantlet
Modelpoint

A nicely rendered barrel that will add that little bit extra to any of the T-62 kit.

Recommended.

Thanks to Dmitriy from Model Point US for the review sample.



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