The cardboard cut outs of the parts I needed turned out well enough to carefully draw those dimensions on to a sheet of styrene. I drew those parts just a little larger than what was needed because of a lesson I learned in the past.


If something is too big, you can file it down. If something is too small, you cannot file it up.


A little bit of trimming and fitting was needed, but I was happy enough with the basic cab to glue it together. I didn't glue the top down for now, I need to make up my mind about what kind of an interior I want to deal with --- none really, but it needs something to look at because of all of those windows. I don't want to build it all buttoned up. However, I may change my mind about that later.




The real life 1:1 scale M26 and M15 are a nightmare of details and small parts. On my model only the parts that can be seen from 10 feet away will end up being built by me. Uhhh, make that 15 feet --- at night.


A thought crossed my mind that kinda scares me. I'm not sure I really want to consider making this an R/C tractor, but I could steal the R/C gear out of one of my HL tanks and use the gear box to drive a rear axle and the turret motor to steer the front tires. I have bought and cannibalized a half dozen HL Panzer IIIs in the past to R/C some of my scratch builds, so I know that will work. Most of the HL tanks I have bought from Mato just sit on the shelf and have never seen dirt. I'm sure one of them won't mind being an electronic organ donor so that this creature might live. But that's just a thought I had during a recent rainy night with thunder and lightning.
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