Post by rbaer on Feb 20, 2014 12:30:49 GMT -5
This is probably one of the oldest shelf queens I still have and haven't started robbing for parts. I've had some motivation lately to move ahead on it, I thought I'd do a quickie blog. I plan to keep it close to me when I'm working on the Tamiya GB subject, and doing similar work on each, where possible, concurrently. Here's a pic of what it looked like when I put it aside a couple of years ago:
The lower hull is from the Academy M51, and actually looks more like the -A3 than the -A1 it's supposed to be. I already had the suspension on, and stuck the Tamiya -A3 hull on also. I must have been looking for mojo the day I did the hull welds and needing some mindless task to get me happy.
I did an M50 on a Dragon M4A3E8(105) parts kit a little while ago, and that left me with lots of bits, including a complete turret. I also have a Tamiya howitzer turret, not sure which I'll use yet but I cut the turret ring on the hull to fit the Italeri T23 turret some time ago..... so I thought, why not do this:
....instead of this:
So now I'm here:
I've got enough stuff on hand to do a howitzer tank, but would probably need to pick up another kit to get enough bits to finish a T23 turret. I've also got a few pics of Easy Eight howitzer tanks on T80 tracks rolling through Germany in the closing stages of the war that I thought one would be neat to do and display with the GB model.
Hmmm.......
The lower hull is from the Academy M51, and actually looks more like the -A3 than the -A1 it's supposed to be. I already had the suspension on, and stuck the Tamiya -A3 hull on also. I must have been looking for mojo the day I did the hull welds and needing some mindless task to get me happy.
I did an M50 on a Dragon M4A3E8(105) parts kit a little while ago, and that left me with lots of bits, including a complete turret. I also have a Tamiya howitzer turret, not sure which I'll use yet but I cut the turret ring on the hull to fit the Italeri T23 turret some time ago..... so I thought, why not do this:
....instead of this:
So now I'm here:
I've got enough stuff on hand to do a howitzer tank, but would probably need to pick up another kit to get enough bits to finish a T23 turret. I've also got a few pics of Easy Eight howitzer tanks on T80 tracks rolling through Germany in the closing stages of the war that I thought one would be neat to do and display with the GB model.
Hmmm.......
