AFV Club M40 complete....

Here is my latest.  It is AFV Club's new(ish) M40 SP Howitzer.  I made a few additions and corrections.  The biggest is that I lengthened the cradle on the gun by 8mm to fix AFV Club's error.  Apparently they used an 8" howitzer cradle as reference, which is shorter than the 155mm cradle.  The inaccuracy is also present on their M59 (M1) Long Tom kit as well since it uses the same gun and cradle parts.  Here is a thread at M-L that talks about the cradle length issue.  You can see where I added the extra length.  I used a couple spare Sherman road wheels as spacers.

I swapped out the kit tracks with a set of T-80 steel block track from Dragon.  The ones that come in the kit are from late WWII.  I also added correct decals since the ones in the kit are incomplete.  I have depicted B 11 "Big Bruiser" from the 937th FA Bn "Arkansas Long Toms" assigned to the 8th Army in Korea in 1953.  

I also added extra track blocks from AFV Club's T-80 set to the front glacis and made retaining straps from left over PE frets.

Enough talk, here it is:

More here.

As always, all comments are welcome.