John Yahl Jr.
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
John writes: “To build an Israeli M7 Priest, I combined the 1/72 scale Italeri ‘fast assembly’ M7 Priest with the Italeri 1/72 scale M4A1 Sherman’s wheels, bogies, tracks, and engine, along with some Black Dog resin canvas rolls, Academy stowage boxes, and Italeri, Hasegawa and Imex figures. I added a driver with control levers, cut open the driver’s front hatch, and cut down the extended pulpit. I airbrushed with a 2:1 mix of Tamiya acrylic paints: XF-51 khaki drab and XF-62 olive drab. After Tamiya sand and light sand weathering powders, I applied decals from AFV Club’s IDF Armor-Part 1 sheet (No. AFV-7208).”