Just caught up with this and must say you're doing an outstanding job !!!

Well.. did a bit more last night.. assembled all the road wheels.. and drive wheels,, idlers..Since this will be a junkyard tank,, I'm going to mix n max the road wheels..The white-gray wheels are the ones from the front page, some are steel, some are rubber ..The kit has steel and rubber also, but with differant centers.. the aftermarket wheels, while fitting the shaft, didn't come with the center caps( bearing covers ).. so to use the Tamiya kit ones, I had to drill out the centers to accomodate the tamiya caps. A 3/16 bit and carefull drilling.. I will have to shorten the axle shafts a tad also..

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Not sure yet on the final config for the road wheels.. going to mix n match...see what looks "junky", maybe drill out a few lug nuts.. etc..

Well.. started cleaning up the roadwheels and added some other hull items.. also scribed the hull hatches and worked on those..

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closed off the hull openings from the motorized set up..

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working on the hull hatches from the M-10

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Wow, she's really coming together now. Truly one odd looking beast

That's one cool Franken-tank.

thanks guys,, its coming along good.. and its being very fun...

Left to do.. : 2nd hull hatch,  screens and grills for engine vents, ( had to shorten the hull top so making these will be a challenge, the PE set has a very intricate set up for these... ) , tracks.. , tools.. stowage,,tool boxes..and then the boys,,. JEB, Rick, Arch, Slim.. Gus was later, after Arch was killed.. oh.,, and JEB's .50cal gun mount ring around his commander's hatch..

oh,, and the 20mm bow gun... and some more junkyardy looks.. bent fenders.. dinged up road wheels.. I did drill out some bolt heads on a few road wheels to make it look like stripped, missing, broken etc..

All it's missing is a zombie Tank Commander. I know an undead Field Marshall who could hook you up with one...

got the other hull hatch scribed open tonight.. Need to rework the hinges... the M-10 hinges won't open the hatches enough to clear the turret...

also worked on a PE tool box for the fender,, i've banged and dented it up some...pics soon..

Grrrr...can't find my 20mm barrel I ordered... ,,, it must be hiding..

here's a pic of the hull hatch openings... the bits of card stock are where my scratched hinges will go..

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All it's missing is a zombie Tank Commander. I know an undead Field Marshall who could hook you up with one...

I hear Manny was the inspiration for the AMC hit series "The Walking Dead".

WOW!  Great work on the tool boxes especially the smashed one. 

here's a better pic of the front tool box...

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Holy smokes, P38J!!  Wow! I know you mentioned this a while ago.....great progress; really starting to look the part.  Thanks for solving the Gus mystery....he was the African-American that the guys picked up on the way....I forgot that Arch died.  Like most of the guys, this is a trip down memory lane.  So cool to see your scans of the actual comic books.  Too bad the artists couldn't come up with a "definitive" Jigsaw to portray.....

Does anyone remember "Johnnie Red Cloud?"  I think he was an Apache(?) fighter pilot.... I remember one cover where he is being shot down in his P-51D with a Me109?  coming in for the kill.....he's standing partially on the wing and returning fire with his .45.....the last great act of defiance, comic style.....such memories!!!

thanks Tal Afar Dave, yup... Johnnie Cloud, joined up with Capt Storm, Gunner and Sarge ( Pooch, and Mille Marie ) in the Losers,, !

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Great work there! She's really coming together with all the tiny details.

Funny, you got me thinking of the 'Weird War II' role-playing game from about a decade ago. It was mostly based off the 'Weird War' comic but had some stuff from others as well. The game had a simple war-gaming system with rules for creating your own 'haunted tank' using the stats from the hundred or more vehicles they listed.  

Gamera... thanks !

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I have a bunch of Wierd War Tales comics also...

Strange cool conversion/frankenstein work

Hurry up and finish it so we can nitpick it and point out all the errors! LOL, just kidding!

It looks great, what are you going to use for the 20mm hull gun? I like the way it looks like you emptied the parts box to assemble it; like you used an actual model kit junkyard.

I loved those old Weird War tales too. I wish I had kept a few of them even though they were well read and had torn covers.

Ha.. thanks guys.. I am emptying the Tamiya T-34 and Walker boxes for stuff.. plus,, the scratch building some stuff to... and heavily modifying the hull top...

next up is dinging up,, bending/bent the road wheels.. the rubber ones will have some chunks taken out.. the all steel ones wiill get some dings and dents..

fenders will be banged and dented.. JEB and crew wern't big on cosmetics... but she always ran good and went anywhere..

also need to scratch JEB's .50cal ring mount around his hatch..

DId a bit more work last night... took the road wheels and dinged them up a bit.. and drilled out some of the bolt holes to represent broken bolts from changing the wheels out in the junkyard.. no time to drill and tap new ones...

the rubber road wheels I touched my dremel tool with a grinder bit to show some rubber missing.. the steel wheels got some hot metal objects ( i varied the tool used ) to show dents and dings..

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I've also been cleaning up the seems...

The 20mm cannon arrived from China last night... so.. once somemore Wildcat work is done.. I'll be back on this baby.. !

Looking good...you sure are getting into that pe stuff.

Nothing new lately guys...been working on the Wildcat over in the aircraft hooch..

I will be back after Downeast Con !!!

" Make War , No More "..

Ok guys.. back from Downeast Con.. well. .actually back since 9 pm April 1st... been chilling a bit,, lots of late nights on the Wildcat, which that WIP will have pics soon. I'll be back on the Haunted Tank soon !!

Okay, enough tie, back to the bench.

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Okay, enough tie, back to the bench.

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