Wade Buff
Terre Haute, Indiana
Saying it represents “just another day in the Cold War,” Wade finished Tamiya’s 1/35 scale T-55A as a Soviet tank during a Warsaw Pact exercise in the 1960s. His improvements include Friulmodel metal tracks, Eduard photo-etched metals, scratchbuilt fuel lines, and painting the tank with Floquil enamels, starting with Weathered Black topped with a clouded application of Floquil Green. Wade added the markings with stencils and pencils.