Some more pics of recenlty posted stuff
Here we have my converted M35 pulling an 17 pdr by Revell built OOB
Some more pics of recenlty posted stuff
Here we have my converted M35 pulling an 17 pdr by Revell built OOB
M35 Prime Mover
Long time ago I had bought some Aifix Sherman at cheap price and I wanted to convert them as I like service and support vehicles and also I had already a pretty good chunk of regular tanks. So first I went for a couple of recovery tanks and a fascine layer although this was only used in Italy and maybe by the Polish Armd Div in The Netherlands. This was the turn of a challenging work: the conversion into an M35 Prime Mover.
This is the
most difficult stuff I have done and I recognize the outcome is far from
perfect but I am not particularly skilled and my eyes do not support me as in
the past. Furthermore and more importantly I use my models to play solo war
game and the aim is to have better models than the basic ones.
I kept only
the lower part of the hull and built the rest from scratch. For the front side
I downsized slightly the one manufactured by Esci for their Sherman or M12.
Then I had to figure out the right angle of the sloping front and side plates.
The rest was kind of straightforward. I used a good load of spare parts like
towing cables, tracks, jerry cans, etc. I looked for info and pics on the web.
Apparently there is no 1:72 or 1:76 kits available. I found some very
interesting sources and some very helpful drawings