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T-62 is a main battle Soviet Tank that first entered production in 1961. The tank continued to be produced until 1975. It is a combat tank with 115mm gun.

Before embarking on this journey of modeling the T-62 tank, we had researched its design sketches. The big plus about T-62 for 3D printing is that the model includes full interior layout.

It was initially decided that this 3D model will be big in size. This meant that the model had to be broken down into many separate pieces to make sure that the model can be printed on the regular print bed. There are 62 parts in the 3D model – a pure coincidence, or maybe not ;)

One can’t say that a certain part was the most difficult part to model. The T-62 3D model as a whole was difficult to create, as it required a lot of attention to all the small details and the hinges, which are incorporated in the model to provide workability of the manholes.

Of course, there are a lot of small elements that are attached to the outer shell of the 3D model. But we will focus on modeling the following important elements of every tank:

- The hull;

- The turret;

- The caterpillar tracks;

- The wheels;

- And the hinge to the manholes that make them operable.

The 3D model was designed in Autodesk Maya 3D modeling software. All screenshots are from the program.

* Although the T-62 tank 3D model has a lot of outer shell details and a full interior layout, we will focus in this Instructable on modeling the tank’s shell.