Back working on this tank. I decided to continue with it but changed up for the nick aguilar early turret. Its more accurate with casting and so much faster than back dating a Tamiya turret.

So Ive been building the gun mount. In my previous builds, to mount the recoil servo I was able to glue and screw a bracket of plexi to the mantle. This allowed e to mount a servo for recoil and hook the elevation servo to. This project with the early 75 mount, I cannot do that. The mantle just floats out in front of the rotor shield and its just a slot cover, not the wide later version. Im still pondering how I am going to make the mount for the recoil servo but here it is so far.

Nicks kit has the gun rotor shield, the mantle cover and a plastic trunion. I assumed the trunion would break in IR battle so I opted to make a brass one.
I installed a brass tube on the mantle for barrel recoil control. I used a larger tube and copied the plastic trunion in brass and routed out the solid cast rotor shield to set the pivot point of the elevation further forward, Just thought it would be a good idea.


Here is my brass trunion carrier mounted into the rotor shield with the barrel drooping out the front


Here is the overall tank at this point. I was just barely able to get the barrel to stay elevated in position for the photo.