Hey guys,
Surprise! A piece of modern armor! Well, fairly modern at least! 
Anyhoo, there's quite a few really nice builds of this example on the internet, so I"m not going to pretend that I'm going to do anything really remarkable with it---it's going to be a relatively clean build, which is....I guess, "remarkable" for me, to be honest, lol. Ever since I went to the American Armored Foundation's incredible museum up in Danville, Va, I've wanted to do one of these in that MERDC scheme.
I also know that Redleg12 did a bang-up job on one of these a while ago, and would welcome any help on it, Mike! Anything to give it a little extra "zing"?
As that goes, I got some goodies to put into it--an Eduard PE set and some Perfect Scale Modelbau tracks in resin.
Man, the directions for the PE has me scraping, sanding, cutting and grinding in at least a dozen spots or more! (all the green & pink!)
I think I've got enough tools...
Man, you just can't beat a Dremel for work like this!
A lot of other pieces took good ol' elbow grease however...this is the rear panel with the light guards, fenders, and rear tool box removed and fixed up for the PE.
I had to put on a new axe head---the kit's one was ridiculous. One thing I can say is that doing an old kit like this has really made me appreciate the engineering and molding of our new generation of kits today! Man, is some of this stuff primitive!
Although my last experiment with resin tracks was a disaster, I'm happy to have tackled these PSM tracks pretty easily. hey come with a better-detailed sprocket. I can't even bring myself to talk about Italeri tracks--just the worst in the hobby for so many years!
So, that's where I am now.....just puttin' away at it, getting together with the PE after getting the hull together.
Chime in, give a yell, lemme know if there's anything I should wach out for! Thanks guys! 