How to be an Armoured Farmer, building Hobart's Funnies in Glorious 15mm (and maybe 28mm if they arrive in time!)
Episode Three - Plastic fantastic
Now that the initial preparation has been done, I thought I’d tackle the easiest of the kits, the AVREs’ from the Plastic Soldier Company. Well I say easy, as at least there are some basic build instructions, but the one thing with instructions is that they are never as simple as they first appear!
So from the research I have done most of the AVREs’ on D Day were Mark IV/Vs with a cast turret but the PSC ones are all MKIIIs (with welded turrets). Therefore I completely ignored this and built four as Mk IV’s and one as a MKIII (as I had a photo of a bridge layer that shows a MKIII turret).
I also looked at the conversion bits from S&S models and assigned them to a separate tank. I did this as I knew that there would be some work to be done before sticking them together. I had meant to do each version separately for you but then I got carried away and built them all!! I will go back over each one with some historical photos, so you can see why I did what I did.
Anyway on with the build:
PSC AVRE Variant (welded) and the cast version that I feel it should have been
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