Hello, steemians!
Today's post is another model kit review. This review is for a 1/35 scale plastic kit for a 1930s and 40s era Soviet railroad 18 ton capacity 2 axle gondola. When the real gondolas were built in the 1930s, they originally had a 16.5 ton load capacity. At some point in the late 1930s, they were upgraded with solid wheels from the original spoked wheels, and also had upgraded springs to give them a load capacity of 18 tons. These cars stayed in use at least through the 1940s and into the 1950s. They were used to haul all different kinds of cargo, including bulk commodities such as coal.
This kit is currently being produced by the company MiniArt of Ukraine. This kit is one of their line of Soviet WW2 era railroad cars that includes 2 different flatcars, this gondola, and several different versions of the standard 2 axle boxcar. The MiniArt railroad car kits can be built to be displayed on European standard gauge track, or Russian wide gauge track. Their railroad car kits include a section of track that you can build to display the car on. This kit is produced with styrene plastic parts that must be assembled to build the car, and also includes photo-etched brass parts for some of the finer details. The kit includes decals to reproduce a car from 1 of several different regional areas and also different time periods. This particular kit also includes fuel barrels for a load, and 5 figures.
I also did a model kit review of one of the 1/35 scale MiniArt Soviet 1930s and 40s era flatcars last spring and posted it on my steem page back then. You can read that post here.
https://steemit.com/hobbies/@amberyooper/model-kit-review-soviet-railway-flatcar-model
This is the video for my review of the Soviet 18 ton gondola kit. This video is a bit longer than my usual review videos because of the time it took to look at all the parts.
If you would like to see more of my model kit reviews, I have them in a playlist on my youtube channel. My youtube channel is not monitized, so I don't make any money from the videos from youtube, and I don't have any advertising on my videos unless youtube puts one there, which I have no control over.
I hope you found this model kit review interesting!
