Next up - the mantlet. You can see from this split image that with the entire removal of the arrowhead spaced armour, the base of the turret is exposed. In addition to that, the C-shaped turret portion that surrounds that arrowhead mantlet has also been deleted. This meant using the Ludwig gun mantlet. It is intended for the Heng Long 2A6, and required extensive modification for it to ride on top of the Tamiya gun barrel carrier. I modified the carrier itself, as well as thinned down the Ludwig mantlet before filling in the gap with 2-part Tamiya putty.