Hi all
It has been a while since I built a vehicle. I picked this up at Telford. I thought I had got a bargain but it is available cheaper online. Anyway it is a fairly recent kit and has pretty decent reviews. The tractor is Tamiya but the 88mm is Italeri. I also bought some PE and a metal barrel. Having looked at the kit and the PE I probably could have done without the extra expense as the kit is rather good and a lot of the PE adds very little so I'll not use most of it. The most useful is the gun shield as that is closer to scale thickness.
The gun looks the most fiddly and will probably need more fettling than the Tamiya tractor so I've started with that. Small parts but no flash and good fit so far. Started with the cruciform carriage.
This is ugly - join and hinge bit.
Needed filling and some reference photos show a cover over the hinge end.
No other problems to get to this stage.
I have been very taken recently with some of the dios on here with mud. I would like to put this on a dio - a nice muddy track. I suppose the gun could be displayed deployed but the 5 figures included will only work for the whole thing travelling. The advantage of 1/48 is it will keep the dio to a reasonable size.
I hope some of you will feel this is worth a look and I do have choccie biccies and beverages :thumb2:. If you could sit quietly and not drop crumbs or throw things the missus would be most grateful.
Jim
It has been a while since I built a vehicle. I picked this up at Telford. I thought I had got a bargain but it is available cheaper online. Anyway it is a fairly recent kit and has pretty decent reviews. The tractor is Tamiya but the 88mm is Italeri. I also bought some PE and a metal barrel. Having looked at the kit and the PE I probably could have done without the extra expense as the kit is rather good and a lot of the PE adds very little so I'll not use most of it. The most useful is the gun shield as that is closer to scale thickness.
The gun looks the most fiddly and will probably need more fettling than the Tamiya tractor so I've started with that. Small parts but no flash and good fit so far. Started with the cruciform carriage.
This is ugly - join and hinge bit.
Needed filling and some reference photos show a cover over the hinge end.
No other problems to get to this stage.
I have been very taken recently with some of the dios on here with mud. I would like to put this on a dio - a nice muddy track. I suppose the gun could be displayed deployed but the 5 figures included will only work for the whole thing travelling. The advantage of 1/48 is it will keep the dio to a reasonable size.
I hope some of you will feel this is worth a look and I do have choccie biccies and beverages :thumb2:. If you could sit quietly and not drop crumbs or throw things the missus would be most grateful.
Jim
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