If so, I was probably fooled by an exceptionally well made skin 
I was thinking it was as well. However the T34 looks exactly the same as it always did when I started playing which was somewhere around 2008 I think (I swear it's been longer, but I guess time flys.) I know because the T35/76 still has that weird shiny look to it. I suppose that the reason it still looks so good is because the actual exterior of the tank itself was absurdly simple, with basic angles, and not alot of extras about it, which was basically true to its real life counterpart.
Or HTC
really liked the T34
