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Hasegawa conversion to M51 1/72

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  • Member since
    May 2012
Hasegawa conversion to M51 1/72
Posted by Ninja-Viking on Thursday, April 20, 2017 8:15 PM

Over 20 years ago.... 

I did conversion sets  for the M50 (Late) and the M51 for the Hasegawa Sherman 

This was over 20 years ago.... the details weren't that great, 

and the hull hatches were closed. 

Back in (or near) 05' Dragon came out with their EZ 8 Sherman 

So I redid my masters to make the Conversions based off their kits. 

Well from time to time.... 

people have asked he where they can find the Older conversions. 

I told them sadly that they no longer exist. 

I then asked: "why would you want one for the Hasegawa Sherman, 

when the Dragon kits are better?" 

I was told that Dragon keeps screwing up and stopping production of the Shermans, 

and even though my current conversions will work with Trumpeter kits.... 

Hasegawa as never stopped producing..... for more than 40 years. 

Soooooo.... to keep everyone happy.... 

I now offer two sets of Conversions for the M51and the M50 (late)

Both Dragon and Hasegawa

 

 

This is my original offering from the mid 90's

 

 

I then crafted the "stowage basket" .....

(Back them I did not have the patience to make the basket)

 

 

 

 

doing the Hasegawa conversions requires these modifications for the donor parts.

 

 

I have also learned that even though I have included resin tracks 

one can still use the donor kits tracks

 

 

This is how the assembled model looks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and here is the model painted 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please tell me what you think

  • Member since
    May 2012
Posted by Ninja-Viking on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 8:43 PM

I have since made a few changes to the turret .....

I have been told by several people that the spare tracks on the turret 

should be a set of three, not four...

there are some small details on the gun mantlet 

that for some reason I have always "overlooked"

and I finally did the "dust cover" where the gun joins the turret

 

first off here is the turret before I did anything

 

 

 

here are the details that I always "overlooked"

 

 

 

Here are the changes I made to the spare tracks

 

 

 

and here is a small look at the "dust cover"

along with the small deteails

 

 

 

here is how it looks painted up

 

 

 

 

Please tell me what you think

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