well gotsome work done on the skink as some parts have come in here are the results

the new hull had to have the inside shaved back 1/16 of an inch all the way around to fit the sherman hull corectly if you done trim it the hull rided on top of the aluminum hull and I wanted it to sit corectly over the hull

I reshaped the fenders and attached them to the hull and when you place the upper hull on every thing lines up perfect

you also need to trimm the lower hull at the rear flaps 1/8 of an inch so the upper hull will sit over the rear flaps

Looks great so far! I always liked the Sherman Flakpanzer!

Nice...really something different and very unique. Dig the tranny case. Going to put LEDS in the 50's? Now we need a canal light tank with it.

Those were quad 20MM cannons.

it will have leds and articulation on all 4 guns as well as elevation

wow nice work bubba!! seems your useing the shassie from the sexton on this or are you going to swap it between??

thanks,

matt

Yeah, I can't wait to see her in action! I built that model years ago and here's a website to see what it looks like!

[link=http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/bunker/3351/allweps/skink.html]Canada's Anti-Aircraft Sherman The "SKINK"[/link]

After seeing this, I gotta build me Flakpanzer now too!

I have another complete gearbox ready to assemble for the sexton it has its own chassie

Panther Thanks for the "Link to the Skink" ...Very Informative !! I'd just like to add something re an incident mentioned in the article. One of our "Former" Prime Ministers said you could do anything you wanted to a Canadian, as long "as you didn't make him MAD" . Guess someone forgot to tell the German Sniper that fact ...as well as that PM (That's why he's a "Former" ).

Bubba thanks for bulding that Skink. I didn't even know we HAD such a critter but I wuldn't want to be on the wrong end of one. Beautiful job.....!!

I did love firing my Oerlikons, though... A good gunner could practically "thread a needle" with one!

I am Canadian and proud of our military and the equipment we built for the war effort in ww2 so I build these as the is no other way to get these unique pieces of history and run and display them with pride

Inspiration is always a key driving point in building these tanks. You have selected 2 very outstanding choices! I know you will continue to allow us to see the progress on them.

Great topic for a conversion. Can you give me a few pointers on the "bolt nose" transmission cover and gearbox setup? I was looking at you sexton page and what I gleamed is you used a pershing final drive setup? Was that the tamiya final drive?

the drive is made of tamtoy and tamiya pershing out drives this can only be done using tamtoy gear boxes as the are the only dirve with the needed offset to mount the outdrives to

I see the concept, did you have to do any mods to the gearboxes themselves? The outdrives look fixed in position.

the original out put shafts are tuned doown to equal size IE the large end turned to 5 mm the the shaft is reversed in the housing the the outside end flatened on each side to except the pershing driven gear the the gear cases float on the gearbox with 2 tierods conecting the 2 together right and left the an ancore plate made of brass is attached to the lowwer rod the bolted to the tamtoy gearboxes this make every thing one piece and stablizes the outdrives and keeps them perfectly allined

bubbajoexx:

Can you show one of the outdrive cases opened so we can see how ya attached it to the TamToy gearboxes?

here is the opend gear case

Hmmm...

Now you got me thinking this route might be easier than the T34 metal gears + TamToy heavy duty boxes + DT gearbox mods.

What it cost ya for the Pershing outdrive components? I'd be balancing it against the T34 gears and DT mods...

28 dollars for the pair of outdrives

That is some ingenious work there.

just to confirm, these look like what you used?

http://translate.google.com/translat...a40af55a2d8df2

they are the tamtoy gear boxes I use

finaly got around to puting some of the smaller parts on the skink hull I use the early head lights and tail lamps and brill the holes needed for the tamiya lights then I use window glue to film over the lights to glass them over then paint acordingly added side armour plates and put weld beads around them using MR putty light cages horn rear engine hatch next will be building the fenders for the side front and rear

started to build the machine gun 20mm rollers to insert into the turret they will be full up down movement and synked in and out as fired

these brass rollers will be shafted together and mounted into a rottor block attached to the turret base as well as drilled and barrel slides installed ito each one then I will cut the barrels to fit into the slides

bubbajoexx , your hatch and hinge work is second too none. How do you make the hinges. The commanders cupola on the Jagdpanther is not correct but I reatatched it anyway, but i would really like to duplicate the hatch you made for the loader. PM me if it is top secret LOL and give me some pointers on making a proper hatch. The more i look at this Jagd the moer i really fall in love with it. It has become my sons favorite tank in our small collectio, Thats why i would like to get the jagdTiger for him. like i siad he insists on the airsoft units working. My self am leaning more and more towards IR set ups.