How to be an Armoured Farmer, building Hobart's Funnies in Glorious 15mm (and maybe 28mm if they arrive in time!)
Oops missed a couple of bits!
As part of the Bulls-horn plough I fixed a lifting post in the centre of the rig and then, using some twisted wire (also liberated from my wife’s beading kit!) I fixed it to the front of the plough and then back to a point where it could be operated by the crew. there are plenty of images showing the wire going into the loaders hatch and also onto the turret but one would mean the hatch would have to be left open, and the other means that the turret can’t be turned. I therefore worked on the premise that each crew would have adapted it to suit themselves and my crew decided that the driver will operate it once he has lined the vehicle up.
The other thing I forgot to mention is that I also modelled the Petard Mortar loaders hatch. This was adapted over the bow machine gunners access hatch and meant that the mortar could be loaded from relative safety.
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