Thoughts?
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Bring it on! 
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and then you can use the leftover AMX hull together with a Chaffee turret
No good ideas for the Chaffee hull though.
Maybe a wild What-If and slap the leftover Sherman turret on
the Chaffee
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What was the reason for the Chaffee turret on the AMX hull?
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Quite more than changing turrets.
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“By 1957, work on the inverse of mounting the Chaffee turret to the AMX hull had begun. This was seen as a safer and easier alternative. It was also a convenient way of recycling useful Chaffee turrets by separating them from their worn hulls. It also created a vehicle lighter than the regular Chaffee, meaning it was easier to transport.”
Read all about it here: https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/coldwar-france-amx-us-amx-13-avec-tourelle-chaffee/
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I think you still need the M4A2 engine deck and rear end stuff. There are often extras in various Dragon M4 kits.
If you buy an M24 for the turret, you will end up with a spare M24 hull and some variant of M4 75 turret. I poked around and could not find any picture of those two coming together.
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After thinking it through, the M4-FL Sherman project is probably best set aside for now.
The complexity, research, and kit-bashing it would require would take a lot of time away from the ten builds already in progress.
Thanks so much for the helpful feedback—it really clarified things and helped with the decision.
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There’s some 1960s/’70s American war movie in which one of the main characters is in an M24 that gets its turret shot (mostly) away. It’s been something like thirty years since I’ve seen it, though, and I don’t remember the title, who was in it, or the plot 
Alternatively, you could use the hull to build, say, a 105 mm howitzer motor carriage M37.
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Ideal for The Best Airmobile Tank That Never Got Off the Ground the M24 & 3/4’s, the Chaffe-Firefly…aka The Chafed-Fly
The lost father of the M551 Sheridan & forgotten grandfather of the M10 Booker.
The study started after Operation Paper Clip 
documents disclosed German scientists had pushed a Sherman Firefly off a cliff studying the feasibility of airdropped tanks in March of 1945 to avoid being sent to the Russian front.
The hull was shorted to reduce weight and waste time until the end of the war. The only known photo of their prototype…
Dont take my word for it, here’s proof!
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Go for it!
There has to be some fun and games in life to make it worth living
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I had a mental picture of it on its nose at the base of the cliff, shortened by rapid deceleration!
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A faceplanted tank …
There is a photo of a Merkava that drove off an edge and stuck the barrel into the ground.
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Automated art programs produce some really wacky stuff. The second picture gives me a lot of ideas.
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Thanks!
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Assuming the crew walked away, exactly how long would they need to dock the TC’s pay?..
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So it was that one after all? I was wondering if it was, or The Bridge at Remagen, or perhaps some other movie I couldn’t recall the title of. Good to know
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