I took the turret from Tamiya's Sgt. York and mounted it on a AMT-ERTL Abrams hull . Thats an old kit with poor detail . Theonly modification required was making the turret ring opening in the hull smaller which i did with some sheet styrene . The camo is my own creation .The lenses are made from reflective party decorations .
Here is the finished camo with a gloss coat .
I decided to dirty up the surfaces to represent boot and shoe marks made by military and contracter testing personal . This vehicle would have been a one off vehicle to further test the capabilities of the Ford Aerospace DIVAD submition . The Sgt. York was a failure not only due to its inadequate air defense capabilities but also due to its M48 based chasis inability to keep up with the M1 Abrams and M2/ M3 Bradley . Perhaps the M1 chasis under the M247 20 ton turret could have improved that performance .
Dirtied up .
I used ground up pencil lead rubbed over a base of flat black to represent the well cleaned and polished 40 mm Bofors .
I figurds that after a hard day of banging around inside the hull and turrett out in the desert proving grounds the crew would have had a nightly schedule of meeting at a local tavern for a few brews to discuss problems and achienements . Going to work every day in this aluminum can would make a person look forward to the end of the day and a few cold ones . So the crew named it Sudsy . The decal i found off of an old auto kit sheet .
