Sunday 8 July 2012

Shell Hole Scenic's M40 Nimrod - Part 2

Despite promising myself not to muck around too much with this model I ended up doing more tweaking of the front hull than I intended - so the turret will have to wait!

Basically, I wanted to do a minor conversion to the Nimrod's front hull to make it look more like the Finnish variant. But while doing this I ended up hacking around with the drivers hatch area, which I think Shell Hole Scenics got wrong. It's still far from correct but I'll settle for this...



And I modified the rear hull, giving it a pretty rudimentary Finnish-style single exhaust. To be honest I could have made a better job and added more detail, but I just wanted to give the impression of the Finnish tank, not build a display model...



Finally, while I liked Shell Hole's Bofors gun for detail there was something about the diameter of the 40mm gun barrel that was niggling me. If I had to guess, at 1/76 this looked more like a 30mm cannon, it just looked a bit too small to me. So I bought a turned brass barrel from Millicast for £2.50 and it's much more to my liking...



So, having taken a bit of a detour with this project it's time to get back on track and deal with the main focal point of this model - the turret!

Next: Converting a Hungarian Nimrod turret into a Finnish Landsverk turret!

3 comments:

  1. Great work, liking where this is going.

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    1. Cheers Peabody. It's hard work for me, this is the first time I've worked with white metal. But the next part will be the big test - the turret! :)

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  2. Very good so far. The bofors is fantastic.
    Cheers
    Per-Birk

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