Sherman BARV

I added the remaining small details:


Here, chiefly the stuff on the forward superstructure roof, like the aerial mounts, the fire extinguishers, the spare tracks, etc. The conversion kit gives you extinguishers, spare track links, and the rack to put them in, but I used different ones. The resin extinguishers are simply to big both in length and diameter, so I used Asuka ones, which are slightly too short (but not as much as the Resicast ones are too long) but the correct diameter. The track links you get are a different type than I’ll fit, else I wouldn’t have replaced them, and the plastic rack is just a bit finer.

At the back, I added the folding plate with tread pattern (oddly, you don’t get a part to build it in the up position) and the ladder, for which you get the etched parts but have to find the plastic rod for the steps yourself. I also added two tiny bits of strip as stops, else the ladder could not realistically fold down (but I just realised I got them wrong …). Also, I had to build a replacement bit to the snatch block, because it turned out that if you glue the two rings to the block, you can’t fit it over its stowage hooks — the real one has swivelling rings, of course, so that probably did fit easily enough. I had glued the rings on first, and the hooks to the model, and only then discovered this … Trying to cut the large ring free, part of the block broke off and went flying into oblivion. I heard to tick a couple of times against things in my hobby room, but couldn’t find it anymore :frowning: Also, the handholds from copper wire glued into holes I drilled (and at the front as well).

And with that, I think the build is finished:

Other than the tracks, but I’ll only finish those after I’ve glued the bogies to the hull, else it’ll be hard to judge the correct length.

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