Rare Medium Tank M3 variant, from a MiniArt kit

[Guest]

I had a problem in that the tops of these side skirts curved inward, and I had nothing to make that with. In the end I ordered some 1.5 mm quarter-round plastic strip and glue that to the top of the skirts. Unfortunately, it proved to be slightly too wide, which I fixed by gluing 0.25 mm plastic card to the outsides of the skirts I had already made:

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Once more, I deliberately made these oversize so I could trim them down after the glue dried:

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I also filed the seam between the side and the strip, to try and make them blend in and appear one piece. There is still a seam visible in some places, though, so I’ll need to fill that first before I can add more detail — mainly, 56 (off the top of my head) rivets to each …

[Guest]

Just got done adding the last rivet to the side skirts:

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Before that, I added pieces of strip at the front and rear:

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These got their seams filled and sanded, and I also added two lengths of plastic strip to the sides for an L-profile that runs the length of the side skirts.

[Guest]

I extended the thing on the left rear, between the superstructure and the stowage bin, so it comes to about halfway:

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I also added a plate on the rear of the original superstructure, for which I had to cut away the rivets there and the fire extinguisher handles, and glued the latter back in place over the plate.

[Guest]

This bit is finished now too:

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The reference I have is too poor to tell for sure if there were rivets on this structure, but I have the impression there were not, so I think I’ll leave them off.

[Jim R]

Hi Jakko
Very neat extension to the thing on the rear left and the track skirts. I'll bet you dream of rivets :rolling:
Jim

[Tim Marlow]

More good stuff on show. Is that an mg sticking out of the box?

[Guest]

It’s … probably the same thing that sticks out of the little structure on the front roof

[Tim Marlow]

Certainly looks like it. Still don’t know what this baby is though…..

[Guest]

Hopefully, things will become clearer soon, when I put some paint onto the model. I still need to add some genuine kit parts first, like the headlights, tool brackets and a few more of those little bits, though.

[adt70hk]

How about a remotely controlled tank in some way...

[Guest]

No, it definitely had a crew, according to my reference.

[Guest]

The building part of this model is now done All that was left was to add the remaining details from the kit, like head- and taillights, tool brackets and that kind of stuff, plus scratchbuilt tie-downs (see my previous M3 for the reason not to use the kit parts) and a plastic strip handle for the rear two doors of the superstructure.

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[Jack L]

The building part of this model is now done :smiling3: All that was left was to add the remaining details from the kit, like head- and taillights, tool brackets and that kind of stuff, plus scratchbuilt tie-downs (see my previous M3 for the reason not to use the kit parts) and a plastic strip handle for the rear two doors of the superstructure.

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Looking good. As I'm guessing there are no further 'clues' to add, any danger of telling us it's use?

[Guest]

There will be more clues in the paintwork, so I hope you’ll excuse me if I don’t tell just yet

[Tim Marlow]

Still don’t know, but I’m thinking perhaps Davros was a factory employee?