Down to the details so here they are
Finished up weathering the tracks, and added a spare road wheel from the parts bin
Here is a view of the tracks looking at the drive sprocket
I mounted the gun assembly. Added a lanyard from wax coated ship builder’s rigging painted with Tamiya OD. The end of the lanyard is a shaped styrene rod painted with Tamiya Flat Black. I used 26 gauge wire to make the connection hook and drilled out the firing lock to make attachment.
I also did some dry brushing of the hand wheels and of the handle on the spade reel.
The crew would need weapons. I added some M1 carbines from Tamiya. The stocks are painted with Vallejo Red Brown and the metal with Alclad Steel.
The 30 cal ammo box for the primers is from the parts chest painted with Poly Scale Dark Tactical Green
I assembled the rear area with deck and used the removable boxes section boxes to support the pull out extension. Added some snow prints from the crew
Communications of gun commands would be via wire. The wire reel is from Italeri accessories kit painted Tamiya Flat Black for the wire and Poly Scale Dark Tactical Green for the reel. The wire is 26 gauge SS painted Flat Black. The speaker box is a casting from the parts box painted Tamiya OD. The microphone cord is 32 gauge SS wire, wrapped around a dental pick and painted Flat Black. The microphone is from a Verlinden kit and is also painted Flat Black.
The gun is in place as if it has already fired a few rounds. The empty powder containers are from the AFV 155mm/8inch ammunition kit painted Tamiya OD and washed. Then cuts were put into the snow, and I put fresh taping compound in the cuts. By then pushing the containers into place the fresh taping compound oozed out as if the containers were thrown into the snow
The crew would run the vehicle often in the cold and would need fuel often. I created fuel spills around the fill caps with Floquil Oil Spill
Lastly, they would be prepared for the next mission. A powder can was placed on the deck. The projectile carrier was painted with Alclad Steel. The 155mm projectile from AFV is painted with Tamiya OD, the fuse is Alclad Burnt Metal and the rotating bands are Tamiya Flat Copper along with the kit projectile markings.
The ramming staff is styrene rod. The ramming end is some shaped styrene tube with a disc punched from styrene sheet. The staff is painted Tamiya OD and the ramming end is painted with Alclad Steel.
After all that…..here is the finished M40.
As always all comments are welcome and thanks for looking. Also thanks for hanging on for this long build!!
Rounds Complete!!
EOM
Next up Vision M1A1 75mm pack Howitzer!!