While waiting for 3D prints for my Sherman V diorama, I decided to crack open a new box, this time something different from Sherman tanks.
I know only one photo of this vehicle in South African service that is shown in progress publication. It has AoS of white 74 on red on blue belonging to 1/6 Field regiment, 6th South African Armoured Division, camouflaged in light mud/blue black. Photo shows this vehicle partially bogged down on side of gravel road so that’s my plan for future vignette.
No other info is provided, only a list of known WD numbers so I just chosen one of these. I also prepared Artillery tactical sign for side of the turret but I’m not sure if I’ll use them as these were just guestimated. It will be basically out of the box build with custom made decals and additional small items from 3D prints like cable reels for field phone as these vehicles served as Artillery OP/command vehicles before enough Sherman V were available.
It’s a kit with worst manual I ever saw, way worse than Dragon ones.
So let’s show some progress from last two days. On Sunday, I glued together lower hull and stowage boxes which required a bit of putty.
Today I started adding small pieces, sanded stowage boxes and so on. Exhaust are multipart assemblies with nasty seem like on top with no possibility to sand it smooth do I opted for two thin metal discs to hide it.
i slowly started on axels to figure out if I’ll be able to modify them in diagonal plane and also turn the wheels to the side.
