My Tasca Jumbo arrived in the mail this last Saturday and I finally got around to starting it on Tuesday. Let me tell ya, this kit is great!

I'm just about done with the chassis, upper hull and suspension and there isn't a fit issue to be seen, tHe detail is great and the kit goes together smoothly. If I had to find any fault, it would be the foam inserts used in the suspension.

THis is my second Tasca Sherman and I gotta say, I'm hooked.

Steve


"...any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worth while, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: "I served in the United States Navy." John F. Kennedy, 1963

get the Formations fillers. No hassle for a few bucks. Either that or cut some from plastic card.


History is Cynical

They're okay, I just don't like them. CUtting them to size isn't much of a hassle or difficult. Placing them in the bogie trucks and having them stay in place while you put the rest of the pieces together was another matter.

Steve

"...any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worth while, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: "I served in the United States Navy." John F. Kennedy, 1963

by using varying thicknesses of plastic card, I was able to get a pretty realistic 'stressed' appearence to the suspension units with the front bogie springs heavily compressed and the other bogies less so.

It was quick and simple and in fact I used scrap plastic bits. I may use this technique in the future to lend some life to the Tasca suspension.

JW

On my first Tasca VVS, I used the inserts. Later I used styrene tabs. Regardless, I superglued the arms in place.

The Tasca VVS was wonderful when I needed to replicated the compressed arms of a dozer Sherman I modelled.

Roy Chow
AMPS 1st Vice President
http://www.amps-armor.org