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First mods on the turret were cutting off the vision ports and tidying up the turret sides, the signal port in the roof also had to go:



The mantlet was then cut up and stuck back together to make for a more realistic look:



I intend to install either an IBU2 in the tank, so decided on servo recoil, I used a broken taigen recoil as a base, removing the recoil gears, motor and installing the servo and a homemade linkage (the control rod is a piece of piano wire). I resoldered the elevation motor onto a HL 3 pin plug.

as you can see I had to make up a set of trunnions to fit with the asiatam unit, the front of the BB tray that forms the pivot in the HL was cut off and installed, I also installed a tube for an IR emitter, hidden behind a viewport in the front of the turret, the port cover is retained by a magnet and a piece of tube that fits inside the emitter tube:





I have also attached the schurzen brackets:



After I took this pic I realised I had a front turret bracket in the middle which has since been corrected.

I bought some of those 1/18 soldiers, they fit quite well with the tanks:



Hopefully will have the turret done in the next few days

Sweet!

Looking really good Rob nice work

Thanks guys, still making slow progress.

The turret is almost done now:



Got the schurzen done, have also added the extra armour ring around the Cupola and started on making a hatch (The H had a hatch not unlike the one on an early tiger, rather than the earlier split hatch)



Hoping to have this finished soon .

Looking good Rob coming along nicely...need to get it done so I can battle you!!!

Thanks Ed,

Got a few updates, I don't get much spare time at the moment so its taking a while to get things done:


Turret was painted with Halfords red plastic primer

The rotation unit had to be fitted. I reused one of the pegs that got chopped off when I fitted the hatches. For the wiring I have gone with the new heng long setup of making all the connections using plugs instead of soldered joins for easy maintenance.



I also fitted a set of low profile 5:1s, I had to make a metal plate up in the end but they work OK. I also chopped the top out of the battery box so I can swap batteries without turning it over. The tracks were painted with wilko bbq paint:


Once I was happy with the wiring in the turret, I sprayed it with the same ts3 basecoat as the rest of the tank. This was followed by adding the camo in olive green. I used a battery powered Tamiya airbrush which is fine for basic work like this:

(taken at the GLAD august meet)

Once this had set, I hit the tank with a coat of ts13 gloss clear to seal the paint ready for weathering. This was then followed with application of a peddinghaus decal set:

Looks a bit shiny will be ok once I get weathering done and put on a final coat of flat clear.

Experimented with some pigments on a piece of spare track:

Also sorted the fender springs. The spring came from inside an old oil seal (of the type used to seal a driveshaft). I used the same thing for the antenna on the rear hull corner.

Just need to finish the electrics and the weathering then its ready for battle

Looks great Rob...She's come a long way...you must feel proud and satisfied now that the finish point is near

ALPHA

Having just got my IV through the door today(last one apparently) this build is taking on an entirely new dimension.

Looks awesome! Great work.

Pray tell...I have a set of the brass 5:1s low profile gearboxes from Asiatam. Looks like you used the steel ones they have now (possibly with a new motor). It also looks like you were able to raise the sprockets a little. I'm trying to do the same thing but having a devil of a time doing it. The two big (side-by-side) gears keep hitting the top if I raise it more than a millimeter. Angling it doesn't seem to work because I can't get it to mount in the holes. Killing me...

TIA

Thanks for all the kind words guys, for a variety of reasons I have been away from this build but thought I best finish this before starting on a new project

Philipat I have the same problem as you, but the hull is also a little warped due to all my chopping earlier in the build, the ibu2 also takes a lot of room, maybe a clark would be a better fit in a smaller tank like these?

I have taken her to a couple of GLAD meets and shes a good little runner, battling is untested as I dropped the battle unit on the floor and then managed to step on it

Anyhow, I have made up a set of schurzen out of plastic to hang on the sides, I suspect I will take these off for battling or outdoor running.



On the battlefield at Grantham Light Armoured Division:



You can see a little gap at the front, maybe i'll put in a small filler piece at the top of the front plate?