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Cheers caddyshack, its taking its time lol .
Nearly finished the main tank stuff, may do a tad more weathering in time but pretty much all done. Lighting is rubbish atm so Il get a pic in the morning.
A couple things I been working on whilst taking my time with painting. Continueing the HL Pershing .50cal, I cut this rough shape from some card looking at reference pics to make the box around ammo tin;



(right side a little big). Cut up the ammo tin so just the sides left, made a new bottom and ends to accommodate the 9mm length of the rounds, painted then added Tam decal. With a strip of masking tape made a belt for the rounds then stuck above shape together and painted;



Added rounds into box and mounted on the .50;



Its not the best or most accurate but was cheap and quick to get! Not too bad looking, Im pleased with the outcome
Finaly removed the masking tape from the wheels (been on nearly a month), put on tracks after a little weathering and had a drive. Easy to notice the suspension isnt strong enough so will have to stretch out the springs soon. Anyhow will update tomorrow morn, cheers

So naturally a very dark morning, cloads start to clear around noon ans sun shines, but as quicly as that it tips it down . Finally stops raining a little while ago so I got in there before the light totaly faided!

But to start some of my progress whilst waiting, I wanted the commander to have a helmet on but knew crew wore the tanker hat underneath. I requested Nickmow to make a mould similar to the 21st C one and it looks great, I cut up accordingly so the Tam helmet (I think) would fit over as appears;



Helmet top left (duh ) removed section top right, whats left bottom.....left and moulded hat bottom right.
I painted this and fixed to helmet inner near bottom, look closely at commander in next pics (will do better pics with all details when properly finished).



(the '30' in yellow circle took ages to do and isnt perfect but close enough)





Got a couple little details for stowage left so will update with nicer pics soon hopefully. Cheers guys

Great looking tank..well done

Thought Id get a better pic of the commander helmet/hat so here;



Not the neatest I know but looks ok, perhaps possible for moulding?
Some final touches yesterday and today, started doing the periscopes and took some method pics;



So made shape on left with two bits of clear styrene (1mm thick) and 2mm strip of 1mm thick white, then covered ends with paper. Each flat dimension is around 10mm wide and 14mm long, its a rough assumed scale down but is quite close.
Then painted as shown on right leaving a 'lense', cut out the OD green shape from card to wrap around, its 10 by 5mm with a notch out for the slide lever thing which was later added made from a couple mm length of cocktail stick and painted. All above put together and inserted into gap;



Another thing I did today was this;



Made from ice lolly sticks with 1.5mm scale rope on ends. Shells are from Nickmow and are lovely, I think that is correct colour added to right end?
Cheers guys Dave

I think that is correct colour added to right end?

When its loaded and fired ,who's going to know what colour is coming their way

Awesome build MarkofZollo , you've put alot of time and effort into this build and it shows. Well done ;]

A truly awesome build

Thanks guys, shame I missed you at Swindon Sparks but had to be off to Wales for Sunday.
Thought Id put up a few of my favourite pics from Swindon meet on Sat.



I really liked the bridges!



Commander drunk from the liberated wine I guess;









He is still drunk here but I love this pic ;



If only I had some shells.....



He is just wasted isnt he?!







Anyway fantastic day, but now I have more to do on tank, not much to repair but got to paint and weather the metal bogies........
Cheers

MarkofZollo wrote:Thanks guys, shame I missed you at Swindon Sparks but had to be off to Wales for Sunday.
Thought Id put up a few of my favourite pics from Swindon meet on Sat.

Great pics, yeah, I had a great day Sunday, the weather was a bit kinder I was told, catch you at the next one.
sparks

Hmmm, it seems the Sherman has not been well over the hols and has a growth;



Anyone know what it could be? (probably too obvious )

And a little mod to get the correct wheels of the Grizzly/early Sherms, thanks to nickmow and his hard work casting the buggers



Toying with attaching original Mato tyres 'cos I like the markings but may just leave as is.
Cheers, Dave