Armourfast M4 - Turret upgrades - a photo on Flickriver

            Well I worked through my checklist this afternoon, though I chose not to add any more texture on the turret or further detail the priscopes. 

There are additional things I could have added to this turret - dependant on whether this would be an early or late war M4 variant - but I have opted for a sort of middle ground.

I am very pleased with my applique armour (Milliput) and with the job I have done with the gun mantlet. But I still don't think I have quite nailed the pistol port (my dimensions are still off a bit). 

The .50 cal is Millicast and I do have a etched brass barrel handle to add. Some M4s have a MG resting strut on the front of the commander's copola but I didn't have anything fine enough to model this item with so left it off.

One thing I did find was that the Armourfast's barrel shrouds (the two small flanges that sit either side of the base of the 75mm) were far too short - so I replaced these with plasticard. Otherwise what detail that is on the turret does seem to be dimensionally accurate.

...OH!...PS - Armourfast stuck the commander's MG pinical mount right in the middle of the turret roof for some reason! So I cut and sanded this off and made a new mount out of some thin copper tubing and mounted it on the hatch ring where it should be.

NEXT: Upgrading the hull

Taken on: July 17, 2011

Sets appears in: • Armourfast (HAT) 1:72 Sherman M4

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