>>9359780Tankograd's book is pretty good.
>>9360420>The radiation liner on the turret has multiple details that would be extremely difficult if not impossible to scratch build.Before Trumpeter started throwing out every slavshit MBT under the sun (the dark times when you only had the Tamiya T-72 and T-55 as decent kits, and for the rest only garbage like the Tamiya T-62, Skif, Dragon/Zvezda and whatnot), I've seen people make radiation cladding with milliput.
As for the fasteners you could poke it with something purpose built before it dries. When I needed a jewish star on some scratchbuild IDF part I just punched it in with a torx screwdriver.