Tom, I test assembled the metal barrel with the mantlet, breech
etc the other week, to see how it went together. In the Tamiya kit, the
gun pivots in the vertical on a nut and bolt, you just tighten the nut
up to hold the gun in whatever position desired. Therefore the extra
weight of the metal gun barrel can be counter acted by tightening up
the nut a little more.
Your counter weight idea looks like the best way to go. Could you put a
weight on a piece of stiff wire, so that it hangs below the breech, and
therefore out of sight? Maybe angled forward into the front hull, and
painted to blend in with the interior.
No progress update!!!
Spent most of the day putting up the Xmas tree. The 1st stand I used
exploded after I'd tightened up the bolts. Sounded like a gun going
off! Luckily the tree stayed up, but I still had to remove all the
dec's and go and get another tree stand.
Did manage to pick up Max Hasting's 'Armageddon' , which covers
the battle for Germany. How appropriate, and a good read for Xmas.
Karl