Tiagen sherman turret on Mato sherman hull

[c.rainford73]

I'm sure one of our esteemed sherman aficionados has completed this swap. I've an older spare mato plastic upper hull from a Sharman M4A1 (76) and decided to fit a nice taigen turret with recoil and flash and sadly the tiagen offering is a wee bit larger in diameter...

I'm sure I can accomplish the swap just wanted some words of encouragement and maybe some advice from someone who has completed the swap.

Much appreciated.

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[Son of a gun-ner]

I purchased just this setup from Ad Lav, but what he'd done is remove the rollers from under the turret, and cut out the Mato hull to fit a portion of the Taigen hull, with the hole into an enlarged hole in the Mato hull.

[Son of a gun-ner]

I wonder if the base from a Mato turret could be fitted to the bottom of the Taigen turret
Sadly I don't have a spare Mato turret bottom, but I do have a spare Heng Long turret bottom you could somehow fit to the Taigen turret, although, I don't think the Mato and Heng Long turret holes are exactly the same, but they're very close.

[Son of a gun-ner]

Or, the other alternative is, I remove the portion of Taigen hole in my Mato hull, and send it to you if you don't have anything to use.
As quite honestly, I want to fit a Heng Long turret to this particular hull, and I didn't realise at the time it had/needed this modification.

The portion of Taigen hull is circular at about 5mm wide. (Why is it when I type in "wide" my phone always offers me "wife." . . . . Must have seen her. . . .)

[c.rainford73]

I purchased just this setup from Ad Lav, but what he'd done is remove the rollers from under the turret, and cut out the Mato hull to fit a portion of the Taigen hull, with the hole into an enlarged hole in the Mato hull.

I believe that will be my approach Mick. Shouldn't be too hard to accomplish.

I assumed it was a straight forward swap. Should be fun!

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[Kaczor]

Same operation as on my Sherman - sandwitch Taigen lower - Mato upper - Taigen Turret. As I had Taigen plastic hull, I cut ring and glue to Mato hull after widening the hole. Lots of sanding and cutting using roraty tool.

[c.rainford73]

Very nice thank you sir!

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[Ad Lav]

Or you do it the expensive way and use a Nick Aguilar M4A1 hull and T23 turret. Superior in both respects.

I did find my Schumo T23 turret would not fit the Nick Aguilar M4A1 hull...

[Son of a gun-ner]

The only trouble with Nick's set up, it's designed to be interchangeable with the Tamiya parts, therefore the Tamiya turret rotation set up is required unless you do some modifications.

[Ad Lav]

A Heng Long rotation unit is easy enough to fit. Agreed not a lot of room inside for stuff to fit. Hence me getting the Schumo turret for my M4A3E8 - tamiya stuff is plug and play.