I have to thank Mike Rinaldi for the inspiration to start this project. I also need to thank Bud Highleyman for reminding me to start working on it again








Any comments, suggestions, or criticisms welcomed.

Thanks for looking!

I dont have any reference pics, so I borrowed Dragon's

The tamiya's bottom dosen't even come close to that.
Whoa...thanks for the picts.

Both yours and Mike Rinaldi's build look stupendous. I just hope that I can get mine close in quality
and imagination.

You're going in the direction that I imagined the flat top would look like.
But at the same time, I think Mike Rinaldi had the right idea as well by covering the drivers and
radiomans positions - Be a real drag to have one of the arty guys fall in the hole during the heat of battle.

Again, Thank you very much.

"I can only please one person a day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow's not looking too good either." - anon

Its a rare occasion that I can add anything to a discussion on this board. Thanks for the kind words. if anything the bottom is easier than round panels right?
and yeah I couldnt decide on open or closed tops, but the original pic looks like the soldiers foot is blow hull level, so i took a guess and subsequently had to build an interior lol. i wish I had seen the drawing you posted, as I'm sure I would have gone that route.
keep me posted!

Greg

I like your take on the gun deck. From the picture of the G.I. sitting on what appears to be one of these vehicles in a junkyard, I think you have the right idea. It always looked to me like there would not just be a flat surface with the pedestal in the middle. How did you accomplish the worn look on the blue-colored part?

Alex Pistole

"The way to win a war is not to die fighting for your country, it's to make the other poor b@$t*rd die for his"

Yeah I'm still torn on the platform, but it makes the most sense to me from a modification depot/rush job standpoint. and the gun deck is actually sanded back down lol. It was blue with hand painted lettering, then worn areas sprayed with brown/black, then drybrushed with rust/oxide. I decided to repaint and do it in reverse.

Love the flame-cut edges. The piece of steel with the civilian paint is also a nice touch.

Sincerely
ANPW