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Nice idea Alpha but sadly way beyond my budget.

Got the tools painted - used oil paint for the wooden bits: Now for a dark olive afternoon......

Cupoftea,
Those are some fine looking tools, my friend. Solid looking. ;o) Cannot wait to see more.
regards,
Painless

Yes, those handles look perfect!!

Got most of the olive drab done but then ran out of paint so have to wait for the postman to deliver more. Hopefully tomorrow. I am seriously thinking of fitting a mato turret but have no idea what would be involved to do this. I guess it is too much to hope that a mato turret would be an exact fit. Thing is that I don't want to order a new turret and then find it is a 'no go'.

it will fit on you just have to mess with the wiring to get the turret to function properly ...wot wot....

By the way cupoftea.... I found a way you can convert your HENG LONG to a 75 mm barrel... I found an old brass airsoft barrel.... chucked it in my drill and tapered it...it came out with just about the same dimensions as the nick aguilar barrel.... I took the measurements from both the FoV gun and nick's .... the airsoft barrel came from a MP5 ... and I cut about 2.5 inches off the end ...check out the result on my build


ALPHA

Thanks chaps

I now have some dry rub transfers on the way to make the sherman slightly more Russian than it was before hence wanting to fit a mato turret. If I can convince she who must be obeyed that I need to spend a little more on the sherman then it will have a mato turret - if not then the heng long one.

On a sad note - was unable to convince the wife that i needed another turret.

On a happy note - the olive drab paint has arrived so i can now crack on.

I know mate - the word 'need' is purely perspective based, I had the same problem convincing my ex-wife I 'needed' a new wife...................(woops) For every dark (turret) cloud is an Olive Drab lining !?