My brother gave me the hull and I have no idea of the origin. It was set up for the Tamiya turret so first off I cut a turret ring out of an HL spare hull. Out of the dozen HL Shermans I have built or building, only three have used the HL upper. One of those was the Jumbo. Though the Priest is using the back half of one. The resin hull had a high point in the center of the ring so I added a spacer to the top of the turret ring and trimmed the lower to fit the HL turret and drive ring. Yes the nose will get some work for the narrow hatches (and other hull mods), but that may be a bit down the road. Today's work was really a stall waiting on the last of the DUKW parts to show (tomorrow).
Thankfully I have a supply of upper hulls and turrets to play with.
On to some turret mods. Low bustle, modified turret vent and early commander's hatch.
I bought this lathe for tanking.
This is more of the aluminum .020 that appears in the Priest thread. Epoxied in the hatch and the small ring will slip on from the bottom to hold hatch in place and allow it to turn. Some guys print these, others order them but I wanted to take a shot at making one.
I also sanded down most of the blister that was on the later turret to fit the larger late commander's hatch.
In my case loader's hatch and pistol port was removed.
