Achilles British tank destroyer

Thanks Dale. I agree with what you say it did look fairly uniform. many thanks mate.

Craig

Craig,

Excellent start, and I don't see any issues with your scratchbuilding at all. What you have done is the best way to start. Simple shapes & cables/pipes. Already you've improved the kit.

Andy

Excellent scratch work Craig, keep it up.

Ken 

  Hi Craig ..this is looking good so far ...Just thought I'd ring in and mention that most Achilles had the later type bogies with the upswept arm for the return roller ...you can easily swap these out with either a set from Tamiya's M4 or any of the Dragon kits might have the right  type as spares .

Rick

Craig, I have no idea what bogies go on this but if you do need the M4's I can sent them to you, just shout mate.

Andy

PS good scratching, that how I started - a bit of trunking.

Many thanks for the info Richard But you mention MOST  so i guess i will leave them on they are glued solid and i dont want to ruin what i have done.

Again many thanks for the kind offer Andy but i think i will stick with them.

Cheers for the king words all. Very much appreciated. Hopefully more to follow a bit later.

Craig 

Hi Craig

I was going to mention the bogie thing too, but now I won't.....

Tried comparing the location of the escape hatch moulded on the interior floor to the one moulded on the hull bottom? Academy blaze another one over the crossbar into the crowd

David

Good job on the scratch-built detail, like everyone else, I agree bits like that are almost always too neat and flush on injection molded kits, and whenever you see them in real life they've invariably been 'adjusted' by someone's clumsy size nines, so any imperfections tend to add loads of character. It's the same with paint, some squaddie with a four inch brush painting tanks as punishment duty does not normally bother with carefully avoiding drips!

Looks great so far.

Al 

Well not much done in the last few days  so little time recently. What i have done is finish the cockpit.

Here are the rear of the seats that had a couple of ejector pin marks on so i filled them just in case

Craig

Next up i dry fitted the drivers assembly into the hull along with the fighting compartment floor.

This is where the build stalls for a bit  Look at next pic.

The red arrows are where the Ammo was stored but because the British never used the cardboard tubes and stored without, top and tailed fashion. I need to do some more scratch work so until my Ammo + other bits for this build turns up which will be Pay-day now. I will be holding on for a week or so.

Oh does any body know which of these i should be using??

Many thanks guys.

Craig