OCD and Modeling...bad mix...

You ever have that nagging feeling in the back of yer head something doesn't quite look right...? That was me when I looked at the last tank I posted about. The turret just didn't look...proper...so I fiddled around a lil...






I've never modeled up a vehicle with a copula gunner before...but I must say I'm pleased with the results so far. Arms lined up with the stubber quite nicely, with lil fuss. I broke out the drimel as well, widening the hole in the turret top so the hatch would fit flush. On the gunner itself, I found a resin head from the forgeworld shotgun vets that had a nifty pair of goggles on it's helmet...really makes for a nice tanker crewman.

Now, while messing with all that, it struck me I was back to square one, as I had an extra turret laying around now. After pondering a lil and a lil shopping spree at the local hobbytown...





I made a punisher turret....(The pics are trash I know, I'll be posting a better quality ones soon)...Was a simple conversion really. A 3/32" tubes cut into six 6" sections, positioned around a central solid 3/32"rod as the base. 5/16"diameter tubing was widen a lil using a rounded file...enough where the barrels would fit inside as you see in the pic. One section in the turret as the base, the other smaller section at the business end of the barrels as a lil shrouding. About an inch was hidden inside the turret, as anything longer sticking outta such a small turret just didn't look right. A lil green stuff around the base too fill in the gaps and presto, alternative turret for the other three russ hulls I have!

The rest of the turret was my usual raiding of the bitz box to gunk it up. Order some tamiya stowage kits off of ebay, and will probley add some of those bits too this old girl as well.


My next post will be early next week, and hopefully I'll have some coverage of the turney me and some friends will be attenting...wish me luck!!