Tula fashioned tank for his grandson

Alex MOLCHALIN, born in Novomoskovsk, has become a local landmark. To him in the garage for excursions zahazhivaet often a considerable part of the male population of the city and looks admiringly at his work. 61-year-old pensioner spends in the garage 12 hours a day - now it has been operating for over a third copy of the legendary T-34-85.
As the script evolved life masters from the beginning. Study, army, demobilized in 1973, got a job, got married. Father Alexei Molchalin - the driver-mechanic, holder of two Orders of Glory. Did tanks, tractors, machines for his son's. It's the growing roots, looking at her father, Alex D., and lit the dream of your own tank. In 1985, he fashioned a small copy of the first T-34-85, this was the end, it was necessary to work - the family. Four years ago, a man became a pensioner, thought again about his dream, and this time decided not to retreat. About a year was spent on the creation of armored vehicles, weighs 47 kilograms. Operated with a normal keypad and is not inferior in its constitution a real tank.
Last year, Alex MOLCHALIN proceeded to "project" the new. Now he collects a copy of the legendary T-34-85 at a reduced rate of 1 to 3. Its length is 2 meters. Progress on the face. Material - the usual sheet metal, sheet price - 1300 rubles, to get here is a miracle took 5 sheets, not such a cheap hobby, is not it? Wizard tries to create a full copy of the original. Provided the engine compartment, the door to the tow rope. Tower rotates 180 degrees, all as it should. Ride home-made armored car is due to four-strokes. Power iron horse will be about three and a half horses, but this will be quite enough. And imagine, this hulk, too, can be remote controlled. But it is too early to say now Alexei Dmitrievich 1400 will forge bushings for tracks, the work is not difficult, but requires concentration. And most importantly, all for what? Gift little grandson.
For information on when to be ready newly tank too early. According to Alexei Molchalin, with the electrician will have a lot of problems. But he is not going to stop, we must finish before the cold weather. And Novomoskovsk magician wants to raise from the bottom of the reservoir, two drowned Shatsky tank and restore them, it needs a lot of money. In the future, for next year the establishment of the new tank, the size of the average car already with only a model pensioner has not yet decided. But it does not matter, the main thing that my wife and children support him in everything, and it gives strength not to stop and to continue to create.